After leaving Earth, a human colony starts a new life on a planet they have baptised Mars II — currently occupied by the Darztls, a highly intelligent indiginous race of lizards. Although initial attempts are made to tolerate each others’ presence, both races quickly move toward mutual disdain, distrust and finally, acts of violence.
As hope all but disappears - the possibility and promise of a cooperative future only exists in the minds a small group of humans and darztls who live and work together in a remote
desert village.
Could their collective vision be enough to create a new world?
Sylvie Bérard
Sylvie Bérard was born in Montreal in 1965. Attaining a Doctorate in Semiology, she has been teaching Quebec Literature for a few years at Trent University in Peterborough (Ontario). She is a Lettres Québécoises (literary magazine) contributor and a member of the editorial collective of the journal XYZ. Sylvie Berard has published short stories in numerous anthologies and literary journals — Moebius, ASFFQ, Solaris, and Tesseract — as well as written many articles on science fiction. The French version, Terre des Autres, won the Grand Prix in 2005 science-fiction and fantasy in Quebec, the Boréal Award in 2005 and the Radio-Canada Readers Award or, in French, Prix des Lecteurs de Radio-Canada, in 2006.
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