The Orphaned Earth is a powerful and gripping continuation of the Geryon's Code сycle that raises the stakes in every possible way as it blends speculative ideas with sharp social commentary and genuine human struggle.
Randy de la Serna is a blacksmith apprentice from the thawing Antarctica, and he's out of time. His people in McMurdo are dying as the prehistoric "bird plague" rots their lungs. While looking for a cure, he runs into a survivor from a crashed Martian spaceship and finds himself caught in the crosshairs of an interplanetary war between a god-like AI and the scouts from Mars.