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The View from Ararat by Brian Caswell is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The View from Ararat about?
One hundred years after the Revolution, Deucalion is a model society and life is good. But all that is about to change. Death arrives one day on the C - ship, Pandora, and suddenly no one is safe. Overnight, the old rules no longer apply. When every breath and every decision is a matter of life and death, when every friend is a potential threat, and the only one you can count on is yourself, how deep does your civilisation really run? In the sequel to the multi - award - winning Deucalion, Brian Caswell takes us a century further into his vision of Humanity's future. Once again, he merges fact with fantasy in a gripping read for young adults and lovers of speculative fiction alike.**From School Library JournalGr 9 Up-The governing officials of the planet Deucalion face a crisis when spaceships from Earth are due to land and the settlers on board may be harboring a fatal disease called Crystal Death, a malady that causes elements in the body to crystallize and turn to stone. This mysterious illness, whose causative agent proves elusive to the research scientists, is fatal. The crisis builds through the voices of the characters whose lives are touched by this disease, including space
Who reads The View from Ararat?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Brian Caswell
- Publisher
- University of Queensland Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781101585504
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Children'S, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.56 / 5 (170 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14