EXCERPT It is 2056. The air is crammed with a strung-out anticipation and not a moment goes by that does not foreshadow the demise of an eleven-billion-strong species. Environmental warfare spread by plants; insect-machine hybrids carrying diseases designed to infect specific racial and ethnic groups via targeted DNA sequencing; volatile weather systems; all meld in this ecology of collapse. The existing hierarchy of the earth’s species is set to enter an irreversible flux. With corporations wielding economic and military power equivalent to that of Nation states, mergers start occurring, and it is not long before the global map is reconfigured by CorpoNations…