Machine sickness changed life worldwide. No plastic and no petroleum meant no vehicles, pavement, or electronics. Climate change is accelerated by all the world's CO2, released at once. Nations and corporations are left reeling on the ropes. Is this humanity's chance to outgrow corrupt politics, warfare, and violence and create a network of voluntary association encircling the globe? Three stories of three survivors interweave in this shocking and expansive epic.Young Meala is stunned and enchanted when Hen Li, forced to man an oar in a doomed Africa-bound ship, washes up at feet when the ship wrecks. But the new matriarchal religion wants him mutilated. Will the bloody explosion of neo-Islam separate the star-crossed lovers? Will it cost him his life?Dr.

D., still horrified at the results of her gene modification project, is attacked by predatory bandits while traveling the changed landscape, struggling to counteract the climate cataclysm that threatens humanity's survival.The bombastic and incompetent President of the USA, cut off in a newly hostile world, fights for control of the primitive media that remains.And what are the strange, edible residues the bacteria leaves on the world's shores? What are the strange creatures that feed on them? How can they be communicating? The action continues non-stop in this stand-alone sequel.".the series is an enjoyable, elegantly written, and ultimately hopeful story about a tremendous, world-shattering catastrophe."-SciFi Magpie Blog"Made chills run up and down my spine!" -David G.