Why did I read this book: When this showed up at my door last week my eyes immediately zoomed into the Neil Gaiman quote on the front cover. How did I get this book: I received an unsolicited copy from the publishers A girl living in an extraordinary world that is spiralling into a terrible war. It tells the story of a girl who grows up in a very different world, who gains a unique perspective on our world and a unique perspective on her new home. And a story about how human odd aliens are. TERRA is a charming and hilarious satirical fable. From her humanity.Īnd now eleven years later a girl called Terra is about to go to school for the first time. And in the wreckage of their car our alien discovers a baby girl.

Understandably the Bradbury’s crash (interrupting the latest in a constant procession of bitter rows). The occupants of a car travelling down a lonely road spot his ship (the sort of massive lemon coloured, lemon shaped starship that really shouldn’t be hanging in the sky over a road). Best take a look while they’re still there.īut on one trip to Rrth our alien biologist causes a horrendous accident. Not humanity, obviously, we’re appalling, but until we manage to kill every other living thing on the planet there are some truly wonderful places on Rrth and some wonderful creatures living in them. That would be a complete disaster.īut one alien thinks Rrth is worth looking at. And certainly no-one is about to let us get off Rrth. No-one thinks we’re worth a second thought. No-one can quite understand why we’re intent on destroying the only place we have to live in the Universe. A science fiction fable for the young-at-heart from stand-up comedian and satirical song-writer Mitch Benn.

Terra by Mitch Benn