The Quest of the Artist: A Sci-Fi novella by Semler Phil

Author:Semler, Phil [Semler, Phil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-04-19T07:00:00+00:00

After the collapse of America with its chemical and economic collapse, its lost relevance, transnational terrorists, urbanism, mass hallucinations, the final abandonment of the malls and stores, then offices, finally, homes. Foreign languages banned, libraries destroyed, the closure of museums, suppression of books, destruction of culture, only pharmacology and biochemistry had priority. No old age, euthanasia; finally, the young partaking of the easy out.

Whole cities like Manhattan gone, then most of America, Asia, Europe gone. The last straw was China forcibly repopulating ruined American with over a billion of its citizens from its major cities. The war with China—The War of the Annihilation—afterwards, a kind of back-to-nature, with little consumption with the limited resources. Population cut by nine or ten billion back to the level of the year 1.

Survivors chose among several options. Some created societies of just several people, kind of low footprint nomads. They walked more, tried to hunt and gather. They initiated their young males by cutting and tattooing their bodies. While the young girls’ initiation was into childbirth by dancing and gesturing toward their genitals. There were only rumors on their successes in Northern California. Use it or lose it was the expression for these people. But it’s difficult to know how they’re surviving.

For those who chose to do nothing, that is, to remain where they were, some survived. There was sustenance, the various paste synthetic foods, clean water, the Tsuits. The problem was there was just so little to do. These people, often in the ruined cities like San Francisco, often did not get up, even sit up, they stayed off their feet, their bones and muscles atrophied. They lost it. They were the equivalent of the extinct jellyfish.

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