One thousand years in the future, the zyme, a thick blanket of luminous green slime, covers the oceans. The old stories say that when the Jemen, godlike beings from the past, realized their efforts to halt global warming had gone terribly wrong, they made a desperate gamble to save life on earth. Sixteen-summers-old Lynx and his best friend Quiller meet a strange old man who impossibly seems to be the last of the Jemen. He tells Lynx the only way he can save his world is by sacrificing himself to the last true god, a quantum computer named Quancee.
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