Spores fall like snow, but they are no gift from heaven.
They drift down from the sky, burrow into the bloodstream, devour reason, and turn people into the living dead.
Lin Yao, a medical student, glimpsed the first spore of the apocalypse under a microscope. Beyond its lens, he also took a scalpel to his own world.
As order collapsed, he used his ability to sense life to save people, only to be pushed time and again toward the ruthless choice to sacrifice the few for the many.
At the end of the frozen wasteland, the Mother awakens. Only thirty minutes remain on the countdown:
Become the new “heart” of the mycelium and let the world cling to life;
or destroy the Mother and let humanity perish along with the planet?
Lin Yao presses the hard drive against his chest. What beats there is not only his own heart, but the pulse of the entire world.
This time, he will give the world a third answer:
With a healer’s blood, he will write the first human name of the Spore Era.
