Terra by Mitch Benn5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The pilot of the UFO – a gentle alien of the grey skin and big black eyes variety, called Lbbp – has been observing the human race for some time and, shocked by this desertion, takes the baby, which he names Terra after her homeworld, back to his city of Hrrng on the island of Mlml on the "distant orange-green planet of Fnrr". When they are driving home from the hospital with their new charge they are suddenly faced with a flying saucer and flee, leaving their baby behind. It tells the story of a girl who grows up in a very different world. And a story about how human odd aliens are. Terra is a charming and hilarious satirical fable. The eponymous heroine is a young girl who is born to a very Roald Dahl-esque pair of grotesque and squabbling parents. From her humanity.And now eleven years later a girl called Terra is about to go to school for the first time. which is a good thing because Mitch Benn is a very fine writer and Terra is a very fine book. There are passages in Terra in which Benn seems to be channelling Douglas Adams – omnipotent descriptions of technology and events in a slightly sardonic manner – but he quickly (and thankfully) reasserts his own influence. ![]() ![]() The second thing to be said about Terra is that it really falls into the sub-genre of comic science fiction. ![]()
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