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Bites Back #2 (Project: Terra, Band 2) - Hardcover

Walker, Landry Q.

 
9780515157949: Bites Back #2 (Project: Terra, Band 2)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0515157945 ISBN 13: 9780515157949
Verlag: Penguin Workshop, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Guardians of the Galaxy meets Minecraft in the second installment of this hilarious sci-fi series.

After narrowly escaping death and saving Paragon from destruction, Elara Adele Vaughn is back in action to start her second year at the Seven Systems Academy of Terraforming Arts. But she's done being a hero this time around--Elara just wants to learn how to build new worlds with her best friends Knot, Beezle, Sabik, and her alien-sponge roommate, Clare. But when an evil time-hopping force threatens to take down the galactic order, Elara's "normal" school year might turn into something weird. But what's a little danger for the Academy's most troublemaking student and her oddball crew of friends?

Based on the real science behind terraforming, this action-packed story mixes world-building adventures with side-splitting humor, plus a dash of intergalactic madness.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Landry Q. Walker has been making stories happen for over twenty years. His work includes Star Wars novellas, a New York Times bestselling collaboration with Dean Koontz called House of Odd, the beloved comic book series Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade for DC Comics, the novella Frozen: The Phantoms of Arendelle for Disney, and the celebrated superhero epic Danger Club. With his frequent collaborator Eric Jones he also created the comic book Little Gloomy, which now airs internationally as the animated TV show Scary Larry.

Keith Zoo is an illustrator living in Boston, Massachusetts. For the past decade, he's been the Lead Artist at FableVision Studios, working on a full range of things from character design and animation layout, to interactives and design. When he's not doodling monsters, goblins, and other silly things, he's spending time with his wife and baby girl. To check out more of Keith's work, head on over to keithzoo.com

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“It’s over,” Elara whispered to herself.

Clutched in her hand was her first-year graduation plaque—a small treasure symbolizing everything that the young girl had been through since arriving at the most prestigious terraforming school in the galaxy—the Seven Systems School of Terraforming Sciences and Arts.

Feeling the weight of the plaque in her hand, Elara looked out from the courtyard across the horizon. All around her first-year students milled about, cheering and laughing. The sun hung overhead and refracted light through the glass towers of the ancient and prestigious school. Despite all the difficulties Elara had endured since she first arrived on the planet Paragon to attend STS—her school’s nickname—she had never grown tired of it.

Elara’s train of thought was interrupted by a monstrous roar.

“We did it!” shouted the gigantic creature of living rock that was Elara’s friend Knot. Knot swept the much smaller girl up in a huge bear hug.

“Gak!” answered Elara, desperate to not get squeezed. “Blarg!” she added as her skin turned purple from lack of oxygen.

“Oh,” Knot said in her high-pitched, squeaky voice. “Right! You’re made of super-soft, squishy meat parts! I almost forgot!”

With that, she released Elara from the hug of doom. “S’okay . . . ,” Elara gasped. “Good to . . . know you care . . .”

“I’m just so sad. Our first year is already over!” Knot snuffled a bit, which sounded like two rocks grinding against each other. “It was all so wonderful! I will miss every second of it!”

Elara rubbed the bruises on her arms. “Uh . . . except maybe all those times we almost died?”

“Pish!” Knot said with a wave. “On my planet, near-death experiences are celebrated! Why, when we swarm the villages during the height of the red moon—”

“We graduated!” a snobby-sounding voice screeched, interrupting whatever Knot was about to reveal of her home world. That was Sabik. He was surprisingly not awful, given that he constantly sounded like he thought he was the very best thing in the world—a byproduct of growing up on the wealthiest planet in the galaxy.

Sabik ran up the steps to the graduation platform, holding his own tiny plaque. Beezle was behind him, with the immobile sponge, Clare, strapped awkwardly to her back.

“Sabik speaks correctly,” Beezle said in her usual happy-sounding manner. “We have marked the passage of our education with the proper ceremonial tokens. Our parental units will be most proud of the trinkets we have acquired on this day!”

Elara jumped up, feeling terribly wistful. “Come here, all of you!” she yelled, pulling out her personal comm system and switching to camera mode. “I need a picture to get me through the summer break!”

“Ah!” Beezle exclaimed happily. “Yes, the voices in my head say that we absolutely must record this moment!”

Knot wrapped her massive arms around the group—once again, way too tight. But Elara didn’t care. These were the very best friends she had ever had. For a brief moment, though, she felt a pang of regret. There was one more person she was wishing she might see—the strange time-traveling Agent Tobiias Groob. He had helped her and her friends through so much, but as soon as he had repaired his time machine, he had vanished.

Elara shook her head, refusing to let anything make her sad right now. She pressed a button, and the comm snapped the photo, the flash temporarily blinding the laughing group.

Elara flipped the machine around, looking at the image on the screen. In the distance, a great bell gonged. The school year was over, and Elara knew it would feel like forever before she had a chance to return to the wonderful, beautiful, yet somewhat crazy campus of the Seven Systems School of Terraforming Sciences and Arts.
 

Elara had been absolutely right. The summer moved slower than any summer ever had. A creeping and crawling thing that never wanted to go away. Not that Elara hadn’t been busy. No . . . as soon as she had stepped off the shuttle onto the landing platform of her home world, Vega Antilles V, her family had consumed every waking minute of her day. Road trips across the thousand-mile grain fields to visit cousins in the east. Train rides through the forests of fruit trees to see more family down south. It had all been utterly and completely exhausting.

And to make it all worse, the current trajectory of her planet had made any communication with her friends impossible. They all resided much closer to the galactic capital than Elara did. All of them except Clare, anyway, who lived only one system over. But her world was a primitive swamp planet, and Clare never spoke, wrote, read, or communicated in any way that Elara had been able to perceive.

And so Elara found herself several weeks into the endless summer, sitting in her family living room, tapping away at the interstellar comm system for the billionth time. She was once again rewarded with the offline tone noises—a steady buzzing that filled the house. A sound Elara had heard so much that she had begun to dream about it.

And then suddenly, her moping was interrupted. “You spend way too much time on that thing.”
It was her little brother, Danny. Days away from his tenth birthday, Danny was small for his age. He could easily still pass for seven years old.

Elara glared at her brother. “I might still get a signal . . .”

“Pff . . . ,” he answered. “Not likely. They said on the news there was too much interference because of a nebula. In a couple of weeks—”

Elara threw a pillow at her brother. “A couple of weeks is forever!” she yelled. “And I’ll be back at school by then, anyway!”

“Right!” he said, throwing the pillow back. “So let’s go do something! Something fun!”

“I just want to go back to school!” she replied, pulling the pillow over her face. “I want to see my friends . . .”

Danny was persistent. “I know something else we can do . . . ,” he sang in a tempting tune.
“Something you’d really, really, really like . . .”

Elara looked out from the pillow, her curiosity piqued despite her sour mood. “What?” she said cautiously. “What are you talking about?”

“Come on!” he said, the excitement rising in his voice. “I’ll show you!”
 
 
Before long, Elara found herself in one of the massive grain fields on her family’s farmland. She could hear the herd of distant gohrinios as the two-headed quadrupeds grazed nearby. It was dark, and the night was warm. There was nothing to see out here that Elara hadn’t seen thousands and thousands of times.

“Danny . . . ,” Elara complained, “there’s nothing  here!”

“No . . . look!” He started to run deeper into the field. “Check it out!”

“Hey!” she yelled, running after her little brother. “Wait up!”

She caught up with her brother a few moments later. Danny was pointing to a bare patch of ground. Unusual in a field of grain, but not impossible. Then Elara did a double take. The...

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Verlag
Penguin Workshop
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0515157945
ISBN 13 
9780515157949
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Zeichner
Zoo Keith
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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