![]() And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive-and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.įor while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power-an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. That she got into Sinegard-the most elite military school in Nikan-was even more surprising.īecause being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. When Rin aced the Keju-the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies-it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. A widowed painter and her teenaged granddaughter embark on a cosmic quest to locate a new home planet.įrom funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead to interstellar starships, Sequoia Nagamatsu takes readers on a wildly original and compassionate journey, spanning continents, centuries, and even celestial bodies to tell a story about the resilience of the human spirit, our infinite capacity to dream, and the connective threads that tie us all together in the universeĪ brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of China’s twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic, in the tradition of Ken Liu’s Grace of Kings and N.K. A heartbroken scientist searching for a cure finds a second chance at fatherhood when one of his test subjects-a pig-develops the capacity for human speech. In a theme park designed for terminally ill children, a cynical employee falls in love with a mother desperate to hold on to her infected son. Once unleashed, the Arctic plague will reshape life on Earth for generations to come, quickly traversing the globe, forcing humanity to devise a myriad of moving and inventive ways to embrace possibility in the face of tragedy. In 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika Crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus. Athletics at Gustavus Gustavus Adolphus College Shield Icon. ![]() Fine Arts at Gustavus Musical Notes Icon.Admission at Gustavus Pencil Paper Icon.Center for International and Cultural Education. ![]()
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