Mad Planet

The world ended thirty thousand years ago. Not with fire or war, but with a slow suffocation of the sky itself, as carbon dioxide bled from the Earth's wounded interior and choked the old world into oblivion. Humanity fell. Cities crumbled. Language and learning vanished into the void of ignorance. But the fungi bloomed. The insects thrived. And now, in the strange aftermath, a new humanity crawls from the wreckage, naked and trembling, knowing nothing of what came before. Burl is a young hunter in this savage new world, a primitive boy with dreams too large for his stone-age life. He wants something more than his tribe can offer. He wants to impress Saya, the girl who makes his heart hammer against his ribs. So he does what young men have always done: he ventures beyond the known world, chasing glory, chasing danger, chasing the terrible beautiful mystery of what lies beyond the horizon. What he finds will reshape everything humanity might yet become.