Melanie Pahlmann

How to Be Happy on a Cloudy Planet: Book 1 (Lin of Luratia) (Volume 1) Melanie Pahlmann 1st edition

The remarkable story of the life of a girl who lives on a neighboring planet.


380 light years from Earth, near the double star Albereo, is a star which is the sun of a peopled planet -- a cloudy, stormy, high-tech world known as Luratia.


THE PLANET  Luratia is a magenta planet of clouds and lightning, a fast-growing world of holographic smart phones, space elevators, and gadgets powered by electricity captured from the air -- all made possible by the super-material clarkon, which Earth scientists call graphene.

THE GIRL  Lin di Ana is a woman of future greatness, although she doesn't know this yet, she's only ten years old. She lives in Bree, a small fishing village so remote and primitive, mail is still delivered by carrier birds and fish. Lin feasts on daydreams of traveling the world and studying at the international boarding schools of the Continent, Luratia's largest country and the epicenter of its social and technological awakening.

THE STORY   When she loses the person she most loves, Lin takes on a spirited fight to make her small life bigger. With the help of a band of schoolmates, Lin brings technology to Bree and finds that progress can be messy and win you enemies along the way. She discovers that tragedy can make you a stronger, better, even happier person ... if you let it.