by Jonathan Maas

3.8 stars – 38 reviews

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Here’s the set-up:

It begins with an insight into human intelligence
When a small group of scientists isolate the neurology underpinning human intelligence, they attempt to procure funding in the hopes of introducing a bit of this cognitive power into the animal kingdom.
They get the funding, and their plans become an order of magnitude more successful than anything they could ever have hoped for.

A century later, humanity no longer has sole dominion over this earth
After the human powers of intelligence spread throughout the animal kingdom, the world became fractionated, with each enhanced species claiming their own territory.
Humanity now lives in human-only compounds called Megastructures, and though each community is isolated from every other, there is an anthropocentric code that allows humanity to keep a foothold in the world.
When a distant Megastructure falls without any apparent reason, Jona Shaw is sent with a team to investigate.

A small girl in a dangerous world
The outside world is unfathomably dangerous, and surprisingly―Jona is assigned the care of a small girl named Klareana on the mission.
He is told that Klareana is a prodigy when it comes to surviving in this new world, and he soon finds that this young girl is far more than that.
And together, they explore the mystery of the empty Megastructure, a mystery that reveals itself to be bigger than anything they could have possibly imagined.

For fans of genres: Animal intelligence, animal communication, neuroscience, languages, symbolism, biology, genetic engineering, SciFi, Science Fiction, Fantasy, EOTW, EOTWAWKI, End of the World, End of the World as we know it, environmental fiction, climate change, hopeful fiction, forest fiction, forest science

For fans of authors: Yuval Noah Harari, Michael Crichton, Hugh Howey, Carl Jung, Blake Crouch, Daniel Quinn, Dan Brown, Franklin Foer, Peter Wohlleben