Final Orbit

From humble beginnings in one of Brazil's crowded favelas, soulmates Mario Ng and Ana Silva chase ambitious dreams - hers of being a music star - and his of becoming his country's youngest astronaut. They find success as Ana's music inspires a global audience and Mario rewrites the record books. How long can their happiness last in an era of rising seas, global unrest, and hackers bent on wreaking havoc? The answer is painful, and Mario must deal with the ghosts of his past, and ghosts of another era - nightmares with far-reaching consequences for the world below. Welcome to The Republic of Dreams, a place that is equal parts science, history, metaphor and mystery. Book 8 gives us a haunting look at our future history, told mainly by Mario himself, as an engaging, sometimes endearing, sometimes terrifying, first-person memoir.