Teranesia - Greg Egan

"This afterword was written for the Italian translation of Teranesia, published in November 2001.

I began thinking about Teranesia early in 1997, and I wrote it throughout 1998, which was a turbulent year for Indonesian politics. Attempting to write about the country's future when everything was in a state of turmoil was difficult; when I began, President Suharto was still in office, East Timor was still a part of Indonesia, and the Moluccas were still reasonably peaceful."


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