Terra Insegura
Terra Insegura (Daw Science Fiction)
Terra Insegura
The battle for survival returns to earth in the sequel to the Aurora Award-winning sci-fi adventure Marseguro Marseguro, a water world far from Earth, is home to a colony of humans and the Selkies, a water-dwelling race created from modified human DNA. For seventy years the colony has lived in peace. Then Earth discovers Marseguro, and a strike force is sent to eradicate this "abomination." But Marseguro has created a genetically tailored plague to use against Earth's Holy Warriors. With the enemy defeated, the people of Marseguro feel they are safe. But Chris Keating, the traitor who signaled Marseguro's location to the Holy Warriors, has fled to Earth, unknowingly carrying the deadly plague within him. The people of Marseguro feel they must send a ship to Earth with a life-saving vaccine. Only time will tell what awaits them when they reach their destination.

Book Details

Genre: 

  • Adventure
  • Science Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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Terra Insegura by Edward Willet is a science fiction novel 
with a highly original plot. The storyline centres around 
the adventures of the Selkie (a modified human meant to 
live under water)  Emily Wood and her mother along with 
those of Victor Hansen (a clone of the Selkie's creator) 
and his crew. Marseguro is a water world far away from 
earth. The people and Selkies of Marseguro have long been 
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