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Old 05-27-2024, 01:34 AM   #1162
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Originally Posted by haertig View Post
Hi all -

I'm looking for a book my daughter wants to re-read but of course can't remember the name of.

The details she gave me were:

SciFi
Young Adult
Terraforming
They enslaved an alien (or aliens? my daughter didn't specify) to do, or help with, the terraforming
The alien characters name was something like Chrome or Chrone
This sounds a bit like The Terraformers (Annalee Newitz), but that was published in 2023 so I'd be a bit surprised it's been forgotten already. When did she read it?

Also check out Children of Time (Adrian Tchaikovsky). I don't think either was specifically marketed as YA; The Terraformers is probably closer to crossover than the Tchaikovsky.
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