Plot
"Until the day humanity falls."
In the year 2020, Earth's magnetic poles disappeared and humankind was nearly wiped out by cosmic radiation. Within the span of a hundred years, living creatures began to mutate and devour each other while the remaining humans, numbering in the tens of thousands, struggled bitterly in their man-made bases.
In the Abyss, home to the mutated xenogenics, there lived a sentient little mushroom. Because it had been nourished by the blood and flesh of the deceased human An Ze, not only did it take on a similar-looking human form, but a similar name as well: An Zhe.
An Zhe is determined to go to the human base to search for his spore, which had been harvested by humans. Once there, however, he faces the omnipresent risk of discovery and certain death as he tries to keep his non-human nature hidden from the Judges, whose responsibility is to inspect for and eliminate xenogenics like himself. And of all the Judges, Colonel Lu Feng is the most perceptive and merciless—as soon as he determines that someone is a xenogenic, he will execute that person on the spot.
But An Zhe's mutation goes undetected by Lu Feng's eyes, and so a tale of humans and xenogenics unfolds...
Silver Award Winner of 2021's Xingyun Awards for Global Chinese Science Fiction for Best Original Novel
dorayakisama 5 11/14/2024
Por ser el primer danmei que leía que no tratara de señores ancestrales de cabello largo y dramones (que adoro) no sabía muy bien con qué podía encontrarme... ¡Y me ha sorprendido, para bien! La historia es increíble y te engancha completamente. No pude comprar la edición en papel, así que puedo opinar solamente sobre la digital. La traducción es clara y no presta a confusiones. Los personajes me han enamorado. La construcción de los mismos, sus motivaciones, lo que los define radicalmente, cómo van interactuando y acercándose mutuamente... Me encanta. El mundo postapocalíptico está súper bien planteado, la información es brindada para que el lector pueda situarse en el contexto e ir entendiendo lo que implica ese mundo para An Zhe, para Lu Feng, para todos los personajes y criaturas. Una obra que recomiendo muchísimo si gustan de la ciencia ficción. Cada cosa que sucede sorprende. Ha sido una de mis mejores lecturas de este año y será una gran relectura en el futuro.