Goodnight Earth

What if the Earth you were taught to fear was the Earth you were meant to save?Sixteen-year-old Olivia Shepherd has spent her entire life on the Moon, inside the seemingly perfect colony of Tranquility Bay. Surrounded by brilliant scientists, pristine gardens, artificial skies, and carefully rationed air and water, Olivia should be grateful. Instead, she has questions.Why is the colony's atmosphere changing? Why does no one take her warnings seriously? Why are her teenage peers so totally irritating? And why does she keep dreaming that her dead father, Dr. August Shepherd, is still alive?Then charismatic mercenary Saturday Blue arrives from Earth in a battered spacecraft with a cryptic mission, a loaded secret, and conflicting tales about the planet Olivia has been taught to fear.Unable to accept the official version of her world, Olivia makes a decision that changes everything. With her loyal dog Henry hidden aboard Blue's spacecraft, she leaves the safety of the Moon and returns to Earth.What she finds is nothing like the living hell she was promised.Earth is wounded, abandoned, and dangerous, but it is also breathtakingly alive. Forests have reclaimed forgotten cities. Spectacular rivers run through the ruins of civilization. Buffalo herds have returned to the Plains. And survivors still manage to wage war as humanity struggles to reinvent itself.As Olivia searches for the truth about her father, she becomes entangled with the burgeoning subcultures, including followers of the mysterious Rationalist leader Phinneus, and the impeccable overlord of the Redeemers, Vera Tilly. The journey forces Olivia to question everything she's been taught about Earth, the Moon, human nature, and herself.The debut novel of journalist and screenwriter Casey McCabe, Goodnight Earth offers a thought provoking and often humorous take on dystopian fiction, a riveting sci-fi adventure that delves into the nature of science, faith, family, courage, human ingenuity, and the consequences of believing that anyone holds all the answers.