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Paperback. A Literary Eco-Science Fiction NovelIn the desert city of Nayira, architecture is alive.Here, bougainvillea has been engineered to grow steel-hard and climb endlessly toward the sun. Over generations, its vines have become homes, towers, and entire neighborhoods-living skyscrapers that bloom in coded colors. Violet for the poor. Crimson for the powerful. Ghost-white for those who have chosen silence.The city calls them climbing houses.But the houses remember.Alira Sen, a young architect from the violet quarter, has always believed buildings should connect people, not divide them. When she earns a rare commission in the crimson district, she discovers a truth buried in the bracts and thorns of the living walls: the bougainvillea records sound, vibration, and memory. Whispers linger. Screams endure. Secrets never truly fade.What begins as a miracle of bio-design becomes a weapon.The ruling elite see the vines as perfect surveillance-an archive of dissent waiting to be harvested. The silent monks of the white bloom know something deeper still: the plants choose what they remember, and whom they allow to listen. As unrest spreads and the city's past begins to speak through its walls, Alira is forced into an impossible choice.Preserve the bougainvillea as sacred keepers of memory.Or unleash their voices and let the city hear the truth it was built to forget.Lush, haunting, and eerily prophetic, The House That Climbs is a near-future eco-sci-fi novel about living architecture, power, and the dangerous beauty of memory. It explores how civilizations grow upward while burying their histories-and what happens when the walls themselves begin to speak.For readers of literary science fiction, climate dystopia, and stories where the city is as alive as its people. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798242015128
A Literary Eco–Science Fiction Novel
In the desert city of Nayira, architecture is alive.
Here, bougainvillea has been engineered to grow steel-hard and climb endlessly toward the sun. Over generations, its vines have become homes, towers, and entire neighborhoods—living skyscrapers that bloom in coded colors. Violet for the poor. Crimson for the powerful. Ghost-white for those who have chosen silence.
The city calls them climbing houses.
But the houses remember.
Alira Sen, a young architect from the violet quarter, has always believed buildings should connect people, not divide them. When she earns a rare commission in the crimson district, she discovers a truth buried in the bracts and thorns of the living walls: the bougainvillea records sound, vibration, and memory. Whispers linger. Screams endure. Secrets never truly fade.
What begins as a miracle of bio-design becomes a weapon.
The ruling elite see the vines as perfect surveillance—an archive of dissent waiting to be harvested. The silent monks of the white bloom know something deeper still: the plants choose what they remember, and whom they allow to listen. As unrest spreads and the city’s past begins to speak through its walls, Alira is forced into an impossible choice.
Preserve the bougainvillea as sacred keepers of memory.
Or unleash their voices and let the city hear the truth it was built to forget.
Lush, haunting, and eerily prophetic, The House That Climbs is a near-future eco-sci-fi novel about living architecture, power, and the dangerous beauty of memory. It explores how civilizations grow upward while burying their histories—and what happens when the walls themselves begin to speak.
For readers of literary science fiction, climate dystopia, and stories where the city is as alive as its people.
Titel: The House That Climbs (Paperback)
Verlag: Independently Published
Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: new
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