Sunlight is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is definitely a museum, an asylum, a prison on a world that is normally ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for life between life outdated and new is certainly Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, survivor. That is his testament, an account of the journey that had taken him into the blazing desolation from the western deserts and in to the labyrinths and caverns of the underworld. He’ll meet with monsters and mutants. The question is normally, which one of these will inherit this Globe?

Humanity clings to life on the dying Earth.

Epic, far-future science fiction from an award-winning writer.