Science fiction characters on a tightrope

Are you taking Friday the 13th off? A theoretical question. Martine Noel Mao publishes on the 13th^H eSKapade group address La Nouvelle Bloom editions. Laika, where are you? It is a science fiction novel in which NASA, a Saskatchewan, a young Jack Russell Terrier, and a few aliens are depicted for posterity. Or is it for future problems…?

This follows workshops with students from Year 5^H The Year Martine Noel Maw develops a plot where disturbing events occur in the badlands of Avonlea, Saskatchewan. It is believed that a meteorite has been discovered, and a NASA geologist comes to conduct research with her dog Laika, which disrupts her work schedule.

Badlands

The Badlands is a location famous for its stunning and mysterious beauty. They offer impressive terrain ranging from sand dunes to prominent ridges to hoodoos (also called Hodos). These unusual giant mushroom-shaped structures give the Badlands a supernatural appearance.

The location lends itself to an exciting story that combines adventure, mystery and horror. By portraying no more than three or four characters, the novelist makes us think about the way we deal with animal and plant life, and about the future of our planet.

Laila is one of these characters. She’s a little girl destined to get her feet in trouble, not to mention quicksand. During an expedition to find Laika, the dog who heard voices from beyond the grave, Lily comes into contact with a being who turns out to be an alien responsible for relaying a message about the future of planet Earth.

The desired environmental transformation

I don’t know to what extent students 5^H Martine inspired Noël Mao this year when it came to her dive into science fiction. One thing’s for sure, it’s successfully crafted a plot in which a future civilization in a galaxy far, far away becomes a mirror of what awaits planet Earth if it doesn’t trigger an environmental shift on the scale of the largest meteorite from the Big Bang.