Do You Dream Of Terra-Two?

DO YOU DREAM OF TERRA-TWO?

Winner of the Alex Award 2020

NPR Best Book of the Year

Have you ever hoped you could leave everything behind?

Have you ever dreamt of a better world?

Can a dream sustain a lifetime?

A century ago, an astronomer discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a nearby star.

She predicted that one day humans would travel there to build a utopia.

Today, ten astronauts are leaving everything behind to find it.

Four are veterans of the 20th century’s space-race.

And six are teenagers who’ve train for this mission most of their lives.

It will take the team 23 years to reach Terra-Two.

Twenty-three years locked in close quarters.

Twenty-three years with no one to rely on but each other.

Twenty-three years with no rescue possible, should something go wrong.

Something always goes wrong.

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“There is so much to love here… It’s a poignant, gripping novel of loss and obsession” - SFX magazine

“Oh is excellent at portraying the aching sense of loss on a one-way trio to the stars.” - Guardian

“This novel is a brilliant, beautiful debut.” – Christian Kiefer, author of Phantoms

"Oh is fantastic at writing about growing up — about the fear and the intimacy, the misery and exultation. " - NPR

“this is not the story I was expecting…Temi Oh exposes what it means to be human in a brilliant and brutal way. Her characters are flawed, afraid, arrogant and hopeful – in every way they are real and complex humans.

If you loved The Martian, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet or anything by Ursula K. Le Guin, you must pick this up. Do You Dream of Terra-Two? is wonderfully refreshing and mercilessly confronting.”

- Booktopia

“Temi Oh has magnificently laid out the tale of what it takes to launch into space. The emotions are real and palpable”

- Glam Adelaide

“This is an impressive debut novel,”

- Wordery