Semiosis book review6/2/2023 But a growing resistance is working to redistribute both land and power-and in a pivotal moment for the future of humanity, one of the company’s original founders will return to headquarters, intending to destroy what he helped build.Ī thousand years in the future, North America is covered by a massive sheet of ice. Having invested early in genetic engineering and food science, one company now owns all the world’s resources. As they remake the wilderness in their own image, planning for a future of settlement and civilization, the long-held bonds and secrets between the two will be tested, fractured and broken-and possibly healed.įifty years from now, in the second half of the twenty-first century, climate change has ravaged the Earth. In eighteenth-century Ohio, two brothers travel into the wooded frontier, planting apple orchards from which they plan to profit in the years to come. In the vein of Neal Stephenson and Jeff VanderMeer, an epic speculative novel from Young Lions Fiction Award–finalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple.
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