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Transplanted
- Joy V. Smith
A California school vanishes behind alien walls and wakes into a universe of shifting worlds.
Cut off from Earth, the people of Flowering Branches must survive with what they have: horses, gardens, hard-won skills, stubborn humor, and one another. But the towering white walls around their campus keep opening onto new lands, each with its own dangers and possibilities.
Lani Verrell, Raaf Herrick, Dean Hanna Lee, and a growing team of students become explorers, negotiators, rescuers, and reluctant diplomats. Their neighbors include telepathic plants, warrior butterflies, giant spiders, stranded aliens, prehistoric horses, volcanic refugees, and a sprawling interspecies bazaar.
They were transplanted without warning. Now they must decide what kind of home, and what kind of future, they can build.
Recommended for fans of:
Clifford D. Simak, Becky Chambers, Alan Dean Foster, and hopeful, community-driven first-contact science fiction.
Content Advisories
Violence: 🐾🐾🐾
Language: 🐾
Sexual Content: [No Paws]
Dark Themes: 🐾🐾🐾
Age Guidance: 13+
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Prologue
“From the flyover, it looks like the three-thousand-acre campus is now a dead or dying swamp. It hasn’t looked this bad since the days of the drought,” Callahan said. The California Highway Patrol captain glanced at the FBI representative. “We’ll go in with dogs as soon as the perimeter tests are done, but I don’t smell any bodies. It’s as if the campus was erased—or something.”
“We can’t hide this from the press any longer. Too many people are trying to get in touch with students and staff. I don’t know what to say to their families, and I suspect it will be blamed on aliens. I would if I could,” the FBI agent responded. Behind the uniforms and men in suits were helicopters, jeeps, and trucks. The milling investigators, including the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office, were curious and cautious. And behind the barriers parents were beginning to accumulate.
Nodding in their direction, Callahan added, “They’re coming for a week-long event of horse and livestock shows as well as a reunion. Is that connected somehow?”
“Or was it the tremors we’ve had this past week?” the FBI agent asked.