Burning paradise
Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Science fiction
Human-transcribed braille
Summary
Cassie Klyne, eighteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2014 - but it’s not our United States, and it’s not our 2014. Cassie’s world has been at peace since the Great Armistice of 1918. There was… no World War II, no Great Depression. Poverty is declining, prosperity is increasing; social instability is rare. But Cassie knows the world isn’t what it seems. Her dead parents were part of a group who gradually discovered the awful truth: that for decades - back to the dawn of radio communications - human progress has been interfered with, made more peaceful and benign, by an extraterrestrial entity. That by interfering with our communications, this entity has tweaked history in massive and subtle ways. That humanity is, for purposes unknown, being farmed. 2013.