SURVIVING THE PLAGUE OF HOMO SAPIENS A year has passed since Jim Easom woke up. He is no longer alone. Jenny, Arch, and he have spent a winter together and grown to love and trust one another. Now they are off again in their trusty Prius, on their trek to the promised land in northern Canada, where they have an appointment: Jim wants to meet the one voice that he spoke with for precious seconds over shortwave radio. Soon after leaving Thunder Bay, trying to make their way to north west to Winnipeg, the three were nearly swept away in a terrible flood, but following a more southerly route through the USA, they won through. Now, as spring breaks out over the prairies, their spirits rise. But they cannot escape the existential terror that lurks in the background: are they the only ones? Despite having left hundreds of markers to alert others to their presence, they have found not a single trace of another living soul. Now, suddenly, they hear a motorcycle roaring toward them down the desolate highway. AN ENVIRONMENTAL NOVEL...

Author Biography

M. I. Lastman is a retired music professor and professional musician who includes enjoying the natural world, travel, and rhetoric among his hobbies. He has published many articles in the academic press and released a number of commercially available CDs. He continues to compose and perform music. Living with his wife in southern Ontario, he is working on the first book of a planned non-fiction trilogy that is a call to action to combat environmental degradation. You hold in your hands opus two of another project, his first novel. He expects that there will be no need for opus three with his initials reversed. After all, who would read the work of I. M. Lastman?...