Colonus

ColonusBy: Ken Pisani Illustrator: Arturo Lauria The future: a dying Earth has been abandoned, the poor and weak left behind. While Earth's elite survivors colonized Mars, its outcasts the miscreants, criminals, fringe dwellers, crackpot scientists, and sociopaths fled inward, to Venus ("a place fit for scumbags"). Three generations later, the denizens of Venus, strengthened by hardship forged in brutality and hellish conditions, are thriving. Attracted by

--Michael Ondaatje

With the same deft satire and savage wit he has brought to his other fiction

【作品】第2屆繪本出版獎大獎作品《通心粉大變身》、《神奇的盤子》、《想變成麵包的兔子》、《我有一個洞》（九童出版）、《布魯諾》、《長太大的馬鈴薯》、《嗶波和車票》（未來出版）、《大野狼大口咬》(Tully's Coffee Japan)

too sick to care for him

Claire Messud

from Opening Your Heart to Taking a Stand

another war rages within Valkyrie herself

Highlighting deadly diseases such as measles

they hate cats

world-class restaurants

But when Abby purposely blows her cover in a last-ditch attempt to free the helpless victims

twice-divorced woman Chandler married in 1924