Serendib: White Plague
Author: Patricia Weerakoon
ISBN: 9781761111051
Publisher: Rhiza Edge
Year First Published: 2022
Pages:
Dimensions: 203mm x 133mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
In 2030 a virus is hijacked and mutated into a biological weapon. A lab leak results in a deadly encephalitis virus sweeping the world affecting white people. Searching for help for his sick parents, 17-year-old Stephen enters a time shift to Serendib 2131. An advanced civilisation of coloureds who care for brain damaged white people. The leader and his 15-year-old apprentice Aletheia offer help Stephen develop an antidote to the encephalitis super-virus. But Stephen must understand the racist attitudes and prejudices that caused the problem. They take him to where his parents money comes from. His mother’s ancestors—slave traders in Virginia 1960; and his father’s in the era of the British colonisation in Sri Lanka. Finally, to 2030 to see the plight of refugees in detention centres. He returns to 2131 determined to change the course of history. Scientists in Serendib can develop a cure and vaccine using Stephen’s body. It is risky. He agrees. And survives. Stephen returns to 2030. His memory of Serendib wiped but he and his parents work on a cure.
ISBN: 9781761111051
Publisher: Rhiza Edge
Year First Published: 2022
Pages:
Dimensions: 203mm x 133mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
In 2030 a virus is hijacked and mutated into a biological weapon. A lab leak results in a deadly encephalitis virus sweeping the world affecting white people. Searching for help for his sick parents, 17-year-old Stephen enters a time shift to Serendib 2131. An advanced civilisation of coloureds who care for brain damaged white people. The leader and his 15-year-old apprentice Aletheia offer help Stephen develop an antidote to the encephalitis super-virus. But Stephen must understand the racist attitudes and prejudices that caused the problem. They take him to where his parents money comes from. His mother’s ancestors—slave traders in Virginia 1960; and his father’s in the era of the British colonisation in Sri Lanka. Finally, to 2030 to see the plight of refugees in detention centres. He returns to 2131 determined to change the course of history. Scientists in Serendib can develop a cure and vaccine using Stephen’s body. It is risky. He agrees. And survives. Stephen returns to 2030. His memory of Serendib wiped but he and his parents work on a cure.
