Gardenia: A Meeting in the Land of the Gray Ones

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Wael crosses from the surface world into the hidden land of the Gray Ones, beings whose technology and nearly ideal system of justice overturn his assumptions about civilization. Yet their ordered society also tests the reach of human emotion and the possibility of love within a colder, unfamiliar culture. Abdel Hamid Al-Qaed blends science fiction with social fantasy to examine identity, belonging, and the tension between attachment to one's first home and curiosity about a radically different world.