{"id":1614,"date":"2007-09-01T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T01:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:04:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:04:32","slug":"to-terra-vols-1-3-by-keiko-takemiya-translated-by-dawn-t-laabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/to-terra-vols-1-3-by-keiko-takemiya-translated-by-dawn-t-laabs\/","title":{"rendered":"To Terra (vols. 1-3) by Keiko Takemiya, translated by Dawn T. Laabs [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/09\/To-Terra-1-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-30225\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/09\/To-Terra-1-3-300x128.jpg\" alt=\"To Terra 1-3\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a>Here\u2019s an inventive new manga series, this one by a woman. It&#8217;s set in the future when humans have all but destroyed planet Earth. Those who have survived the collapse have created the era of Superior Domination in which everything\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and every being\u00a0\u2013\u00a0has been computer-generated for the perfect balance of control and efficiency. But all computers have glitches (even in the distant future!), and a wayward mutant tribe with minds of their own\u00a0\u2013\u00a0as well as significant telepathic\u00a0powers \u2013\u00a0emerges that the universal computer cannot control.<\/p>\n<p>Led by a reluctant new young leader just discovering his own supernatural capabilities, the mutant Mu are determined to find a way back home to Terra. Word of the day: <em>ataraxia <\/em>(which, ironically, is the name of a threatened planet): peace of mind and tranquility. Future life on Terra is anything but!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/trb-1007-09-10-windowsasian-lit-in-translation-proof.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Windows: Asian Literature in Translation: New &amp; Notable Books,\u201d <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, September\/October 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2007 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2007\/09\/to-terra13.jpg\" alt=\"to-terra13\" title=\"to-terra13\" width=\"326\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1631\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an inventive new manga series, this one by a woman. It&#8217;s set in the future when humans have all but destroyed planet Earth. Those who have survived the collapse have created the era of Superior Domination in which everything \u2013 and every being \u2013 has been computer-generated for the perfect balance of control and efficiency. But all computers have glitches (even in the distant future!), and a wayward mutant tribe with minds of their own \u2013 as well as significant telepathic powers \u2013 emerges that the universal computer cannot control.<\/p>\n<p>Led by a reluctant new young leader just discovering his own supernatural capabilities, the mutant Mu are determined to find a way back home to Terra. Word of the day: <em>ataraxia <\/em>(which, ironically, is the name of a threatened planet): peace of mind and tranquility. Future life on Terra is anything but!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/trb-1007-09-10-windowsasian-lit-in-translation-proof.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Windows: Asian Literature in Translation: New &amp; Notable Books,\u201d <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, September\/October 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2007 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,73,76,6535,31],"tags":[32,1968,6608,1360,11,3364,42,3365,45],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel-manga-manwha","category-japanese","category-repost","category-young-adult-readers","tag-adventure","tag-bloomsbury-review","tag-bookdragon","tag-dawn-t-laabs","tag-friendship","tag-keiko-takemiya","tag-series","tag-series-to-terra","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>To Terra (vols. 1-3) by Keiko Takemiya, translated by Dawn T. 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