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The Data Gardeners
Paperback
Series: The Data Gardeners, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 9 2025
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Meet Chanito - traveler, drummer, smartass philosopher, and accidental hero.
He's on assignment to collect 10,000 human stories for a mysterious organization known as the TDG.
Simple job.
Except time sometimes slows when danger strikes.
A purple-eyed woman keeps appearing at the edges of his journey.
From Mumbai's slums to Manila's back-alley clubs, every story Chanito gathers leaves a ripple. Every connection alters something unseen. And with each chapter, he edges closer to a truth about grief, legacy, and the quiet ways ordinary people change the world.
A soulful, speculative adventure about brothers who never say I love you, about fathers and sons, about Latinidad, and about the magic hiding inside human connection.
For readers who want science fiction with heart - and a Puerto Rican hero at the center of the universe.
Review: To build a speculative fiction novel like The Data Gardeners, take 2 cups of The Midnight Library by Matt Heig (similar protaganists in a life funk offered chances to explore a repository of human experiences, 1 cup of Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (similar themes of interconnected humans stories across time and space that show individual narratives contribute to a larger cosmic flow), 3 tablespoons of the philosophical tone of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (similar quests and ideas of energy shifts, 1 teaspoon of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (similar bureaucratic yet cosmic nature, both evoking sci-fi satire vibes), and a pinch of A Man Called One by Frederik Backman (similar renewed purpose and ordinary people doing extraordinary things alignment).Also from
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