My series Terraformed Earth is the story of Earth in the third-third century. The climate has been restored but humanity was nearly wiped out. The handful of humans who remain live only by sufferance of the Young, their gene-modified masters.
Ignatius Ryan, a Jesuit priest, arrives in orbit over this Holocene after a millennium in cryosleep aboard a spacecraft on a cometary orbit. Descending to Earth, he finds a society rich in life but devoid of compassion. There is no trace of the Church that banished him into the future.
Hoping only to survive, Ignatius finds himself compelled to find a way to give this world hope before humanity is snuffed out completely.
in Terraformed Earth – Departure, Ignatius is revived from cryosleep and his cancer cured. But a theological controversy leads him to Rome. There a scheming Cardinal anxious to erase the controversy decrees he must go to the distant future. Before he departs, the Pope tells Ignatius that, in this time of worldwide chaos, the Church may need him to go. Ignatius leaves behind a world he no longer understands, uncertain whether he will ever belong anywhere again.
In Terraformed Earth – Creation, as the human population reaches ten billion souls, a group of genetic researchers modify their own children for extreme intelligence and a lifespan of centuries, hoping they will find a solution that has eluded their elders. They do, but the side effects are killers.
In Terraformed Earth – New Millennium, Ignatius returns to a paradise with little place for humanity. Morna, a survivor who is not who she seems, seduces him and shelters him from the Young in the forest outside the city of S’Loo. As Ignatius interacts with his world, he cannot avoid teaching lessons in compassion to Morna’s fellow survivors. The Young fear the impact of his antique ethics on their world and want him dead. As he struggles to survive, he hopes to build a new world for the daughter he never imagined.
In Terraformed Earth – Discovery, Ignatius and Morna seek shelter with their daughter Iris in the hidden city of Kaycee, far from the influence of the Young, the gene-modified rulers of the Seventeen Cities. But the reach of the Young follows them to Kaycee as well. When they discover a tribe of humans living in the Ozark forest, entirely outside the Young’s tightly controlled society, they feel compelled to return and convince the Young not to repeat the genocide of the past.
The Terraformed Earth series is available on Amazon in Kindle and paperback formats. It is also enrolled in Kindle Unlimited.