Peri Dwyer Worrell

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Survive? Or Thrive?This apocalyptic adventure is a page-turningly intense sci-fi thriller with an international plot arc. In North America and Asia, details emerge about the genetic-engineering chaos the Eupocalypse bacterium unleashed. People create new societies through their struggles to survive and their efforts to protect their families. At the US AFRICOM in the Horn of Africa, a pregnant soldier is stranded and fighting for survival for herself her newborn. Sold as a slave, she is witness to a revolutionary new form of matriarchal Islam as it emerges. As humanity accepts is their new, permanent reality, it begins to build new communities. But they're facing a new challenge: The climate change from the release of all the CO2 and water in fossil fuels at once, results in mass migration. How will people who knew smartphones and airplanes cope with a world without plastic and fossil fuels? Who will step in to fill the vacancy left by electronic media and corporate distribution networks? What are the new species popping up in response to all the rapid evolutionary pressure? And what unexpected benefits might the ecological changes produce? Find out in this stand-alone sequel to Machine Sickness.