"A speculative fiction masterwork" -BlueInk Review, starred review
The Planetary Tribunal is a novel of ideas?fierce in argument, unsparing in judgment, and sweeping in scope. It stands in the tradition of The Brothers Karamazov's moral confrontation, Atlas Shrugged's civilizational reach, The Deluge's ecological reckoning.
In a multiverse where a few ageless individuals serve as clandestine auditors for myriad worlds, Hagar is the auditor overseeing Earth. She uncovers doctored reports, suppressed alarms, and a civilization deep into overshoot. Before she can act, she is silenced.
Decades later, a sleeper agent succeeds in locating and releasing Hagar. Their desperate attempt to convene a planetary hearing takes them on a tumultuous journey?from being thrown into the hold of a slave ship in the past to being thwarted by Earth's emergent entity.
The Planetary Tribunal offers a scathing autopsy of Earth's economic engine, industrial agriculture, religious dogmas, mass panics?and the underlying systems that sustain them. Woven throughout are glimpses of parallel-universe societies that chose otherwise. The fate of Earth's inhabitants hangs in the balance as the consequences of humanity's actions are finally brought before the bench.
