The question remains will it act together in concert to preserve humanity or to destroy? Questions that are still relevant today for teen readers. His vision of the future world is no longer safe or benevolent but rather a highly organised human-animal swarm that thinks as One, not unlike the hive mind of today's internet. The earth of our distant future has become a strange and frightening place. Way ahead of his time was Kelleher, this 1995 published book was written before movies like Avatar or The Matrix and before cloning and extra-uteral births were considered a possibility. Identifier: ISBN 067086711X (pbk) Summary. He writes a good human interest story with enough dramatic tension and thrills to ensure pages are turned quickly and enough philosophy to challenge cherished beliefs about nature and planetary intelligence. There he began to write, prompted by homesic. He was born in London in 1939, but moved to Africa at an early age, then to New Zealand. He was born in London in 1939, but moved to Africa at an early age, then to New Zealand. The Australian author Victor Kelleher wrote the novel 'Earthsong'. As a middle aged woman teen sci fi holds no real attraction for me yet the serendipity of finding this book on a shelf in an old NSW nurses hostel was a fortunate stroke of luck. The Australian author Victor Kelleher wrote the novel Earthsong. Acclaimed Australian author Victor Kelleher explores themes of apocalypse, human responsibility, survival and freedom in a sinister future scenario where two teens are sent back to repopulate the earth thousands of years from now.
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