Drowned Earth

Maria may have survived the initial Rise, but the survivor encampment where she lives is now in the grip of famine. The crops are failing. Food stores are running low. Tensions are at an all-time high. Until one day when Maria discovers a dying man while out fishing. Upon regaining consciousness he tells her of an enormous floating 'lotus city', with enough food to feed the survivors many times over... except this city is reserved for the wealthy and powerful alone. Determined to right this terrible injustice, Maria forges an alliance with the other survivor communities, to take from the wealthy elite what they hoarded for themselves. The tides of war are rising, and the lotus cities will know the vengeance of all those left behind.

500 years after the Rise... The last remaining humans have become numans, dangerously enslaved by a virtual world called the BigDry. Wall Manager Macie is an 'incompatible,' unable to assimilate with numan technology due to a disability. As a lowly human, her job is to patch the cracks in the wall that encircles DarwinTwo, protecting the city from the encroaching sea water. When numans embark on a dangerous step which will change mankind forever, Macie's job becomes obsolete. There is no room in DarwinTwo for those who don't fit in. But perhaps that's exactly what numanity needs.