Ecosystem (Ecosystem Cycle) - Softcover

Bellin, Joshua David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1732185905 ISBN 13: 9781732185906

Publisher: Mostly Wind Books, 2018

Synopsis

Sarah is a Sensor, gifted with the ability to survive within the sentient Ecosystem that swept away human civilization centuries ago. While the remnants of humankind huddle in small villages of stone, Sarah uses her psychic connection to the Ecosystem to travel freely in the wild in search of food, water, and fuel. Sarah doesn’t fear the Ecosystem—but she hates it for killing her mother when Sarah was a child. When she hunts, she hunts not only for her people’s sustenance but for revenge.Then Miriam, an apprentice Sensor, is lost in the Ecosystem, and Sarah sets out to rescue her. Joining Sarah is Isaac, a boy who claims to possess knowledge of the Ecosystem that will help their people survive. The harrowing journey to find the missing apprentice takes Sarah and Isaac into the Ecosystem’s deadliest places. And it takes Sarah into the unexplored territory of her own heart, where she discovers feelings that threaten to tear her—and her society—apart.A thrilling fantasy adventure from the author of FREEFALL and the Survival Colony series, ECOSYSTEM is the first book in a trilogy that includes THE DEVOURING LAND (2019) and HOUSE OF EARTH, HOUSE OF STONE (2020).

About this title

From the Author:

Writing ECOSYSTEM was one of the most rewarding experiences I've had as an author. Given my interest in the natural world on the one hand, and in extreme environments on the other, the idea of writing a story about a world in which all of Nature has become a sentient--and malevolent--entity was incredibly appealing. I've put people in hostile deserts (in SURVIVAL COLONY 9 and SCAVENGER OF SOULS) and hostile exoplanets (in FREEFALL), but I'd never put people in a situation where the physical world as a whole was their antagonist. I had great fun dreaming up that world, figuring out how it would function, and coming up with all of the "not-quite-real" names for the new organisms that inhabit it. In the end, though, the story of ECOSYSTEM--like all of my stories--is the story of people surviving within harsh environments, settings that shape who they are both as individuals and as societies. That's why I love the narrator of ECOSYSTEM, the seventeen-year-old girl named Sarah: she's hardened by a lifetime of fighting against the Ecosystem, and so, for all her abilities--powers that at times border on the magical--she's also angry, vulnerable, and wounded. I'm confident that her struggles will draw readers into her world--though I'm also confident they'll be thankful they don't share that world with her!

About the Author:

Joshua David Bellin has been writing novels since he was eight years old (though the first few were admittedly very short). A college teacher by day, he is the author of the two-part Survival Colony series (SURVIVAL COLONY 9 and SCAVENGER OF SOULS), the deep-space adventure FREEFALL, and the Ecosystem trilogy, a fantasy-adventure series set on a future Earth in which the natural world has mutated into a sentient being. Josh loves to read, watch movies, and spend time in Nature with his kids. Oh, yeah, and he likes monsters. Really scary monsters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mostly Wind Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1732185905
• ISBN 13: 9781732185906
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 354