<p><b>A literary descendent of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys crafts a novel of extra-terrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth.<i> A Half-Built Garden</i> depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth entering with open arms. It''s not the easiest future to build, but it''s one that just might be in reach.<br></b><br> On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. She heads out to check what she expects to be a false alarm¿and stumbles upon the first alien visitors to Earth. These aliens have crossed the galaxy to save humanity, convinced that the people of Earth must leave their ecologically-ravaged planet behind and join them among the stars. And if humanity doesn''t agree, they may need to be saved by force.<br><br> But the watershed networks that rose up to save the planet from corporate