Appleseed by Matt Bell

REPRINT KINDLE BOOK NAMED A BEST BOOK OF SUMMER BY THE NEW YORK TIMES * USA TODAY * ESQUIRE * PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER * LITERARY HUB * GOODREADS #34;Woven together out of the strands of myth, science fiction, and ecological warning, Matt Bells Appleseed is as urgent as it is audacious. #34; --Kelly Link, Get in Trouble A #34;work of incandescent imagination #34; (Karen Russell) from Young Lions Fiction Awardfinalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity #39;s unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple. In eighteenth-century Ohio, two brothers travel into the wooded frontier, planting apple orchards from which they plan to profit in the years to come. As they remake the wilderness in their own image, planning for a future of settlement and civilization, the long-held bonds and secrets between the two will be tested, fractured and brokenand possibly healed. Fifty years from now, in the second half of the twenty-first century, climate change has ravaged the Earth. Having invested early in genetic engineering and food science, one company now owns all the worlds resources. But a growing resistance is working to redistribute both land and powerand in a pivotal moment for the future of humanity, one of the companys original founders will return to headquarters, intending to destroy what he helped build. A thousand years in the future, North America is covered by a massive sheet of ice. One lonely sentient being inhabits a tech station on top of the glacierand in a daring and seemingly impossible quest, sets out to follow a homing beacon across the continent in the hopes of discovering the last remnant of civilization.