Prabir Suresh lived with his parents and sister on a desert island in a remote part of the Indonesian archipelago. Prabir called this place Teranesia, populating it with imaginary creatures much stranger than those mysteriously evolved butterflies that his parents studied there. The ensuing civil war brought an end to the paradise days, and left Prabira and his sister orphans...Eighteen years later, rumors of bizarre new species of plants and animals found in their childhood sites lead Prabira's sister back to the island. Her brother, now involved in pharmaceuticals, follows her... fantlab. ru Claviceps P.