Cantos of Arcadia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781969940101)

It promised salvation. It delivered only doom.

When Ansel Horowitz stumbles on a solution to Earth's energy crisis, he's ecstatic-at first.

But soon reality sets in: the solution didn't come from Ansel's own genius, or even from his AI partner. No, the solution to the world's potential doom has come from a shadowy entity, origin unknown. And salvation comes with a condition: the entity wants a body of its own. It wants to live, even if it means hijacking someone else's body to do it.

Ansel fights the entity, but humanity-overjoyed to have a solution to its greatest threat-doesn't look twice. Soon, a golden age begins: poverty is obliterated, our energy debt wiped out. It's a dream...

...that becomes a nightmare when the entity triggers a massive volcanic explosion: an extinction-level event that forces humanity to take refuge underground.

Apocalypse threatens. Humanity is on the brink. Blood cults rise, worshiping a dark goddess who demands nothing less than the extinction of mankind-and the ritual sacrifice of Ansel Horowitz.

But Ansel has vanished, searching for the one thing that can stop what he believes to be an alien/AI hybrid that will stop at nothing to achieve immortality, even if it means ending all life on Earth.

The stage is set. The stakes are infinite. And only one man knows the secret that will either save the world... or destroy the universe.