TOXIC RESURRECTION

by James Cooke, Michal Kváč (Illustrator)

Earth 2425, population 297 billion. Sea-level rise post 2017 – 75 metres. Few animals exist, save for rats and cockroaches. Arable farming has long since died.An abundance of fusion generated power manufactures all of the world's requirements, from food to oxygen. But it comes at a significant cost. The planet is on a precipice, dying from centuries of accumulated toxic pollution and radiation from previous wars.Kyel Savikataaq, 33, lives in the worlds largest mega-city; Toronto, home to a billion. He’s a disenchanted employee of the international ruling autocratic Tannhäuser Corporation. After witnessing the murder of his parents at the age of 7, he is plagued by a recurring nightmare, in which a ferocious white animal attacks him. He vows there and then to kill the murderer, the mysterious “yep” man; Silus Ricard.Kyel stumbles across and later joins an illegal underground latter-day Greenpeace organisation; Viridi Vitam. They seek to overthrow Tannhäuser, reverse the toxic pollution and re-seed earth with the contents of the long lost Svalbard Global Seed Vault before it is too late.Kyel falls in love with Avae, daughter of the leader of the resistance. Together with his best friend, Harry, an otherworlder taxi driver, they travel to Redmond, Washington, to find an underground group who have unlawfully preserved the worlds 21st-century internet. They alone can unravel Kyel’s nightmares, which turn out to be a clue to the location of the lost Global Seed Bank.Kyel and his friends undertake a perilous and challenging journey to Svalbard, battling with nefarious Tannhäuser agents, all in order to save the world from certain death.

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Published May 21, 2020

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