Published: Dec. 20, 2011
Words: 4,959 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781465965585

Short description

In a world devastated by massive climate change, the Chinese government holds the key to terraforming distant planets. Humankind envies those chosen for the voyage. But for Senya, a part Chinese, part Caucasian six-year-old from Hong Kong, life in the cramped, interstellar society is lonely and miserable. She struggles to understand her mixed race and to find a place in her new home.

Extended description

In a world devastated by massive climate change, the Chinese government holds the key to terraforming distant planets. A handful of wealthy and academically gifted Chinese citizens are selected to journey by spacecraft and colonize a new world.

Humankind envies those chosen for the voyage. But for Senya, a part Chinese, part Caucasian six-year-old from Hong Kong, life in the cramped, interstellar society is lonely and miserable. She struggles to understand her mixed race and to find a place in her new home.

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global warming fiction science fiction short story

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Review by: Cathy Keaton on Dec. 24, 2011 :
This is a sci-fi short story about a little Chinese girl who has only 1/4 Caucasian DNA, yet she is discriminated against for not being all Chinese. In this tale, Earth is dying, and a new planet has been discovered for some humans, but not white ones. White people are not allowed to go and populate the new planet, and must stay and die on Earth. But, Senya wants to stay and fight the Warming Demon, that which is killing the earth, but is not allowed, and she goes to great measures to seem white in order to get kicked off the ship traveling to the new planet.

It's a very interesting twist on the usual discrimination found in the U.S., although I'm sure it's common in other parts of the world where white people are in the minority. American kids dealing with bi-racial issues would enjoy reading this.
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