They just have to get past GenTech’s massive cornfields and the locusts that live in them. In short order, Banyan and a motley crew-his client’s son and a charismatic pirate girl, joined at various points by the wife, her daughter and the landowner’s Rasta bodyguard-are racing the landowner to the trees. Stranger still, the woman’s daughter shows him a recent photograph of a man-his father!-chained to a living tree. A wealthy landowner commissions him to build a forest, providing as a template a beautiful, yellow-leaved tree tattooed over the torso of his wife. He lives in Denver.In a blasted, post-apocalyptic future, only three life-forms remain: humans, omnivorous locusts and the bioengineered corn that has become the sole source of food and fuel to civilization’s remnants.īanyan, 17, makes his living as his dead father did, by fabricating trees from scrap metal. Check out his website:Ĭhris Howard is an avid outdoorsman who's taught forest ecology at Colorado State, worked for the National Park Service, and led teen wilderness trips around the world. As they race towards a promised land that might be a myth, Banyan makes shocking discoveries about his family, his past, and how far people will go to bring back the trees.Ĭhris Howard is an avid outdoorsman who's taught forest ecology at Colorado State, worked for the National Park Service, and led teen wilderness trips around the world. Unsure of whom to trust, he's forced to make an alliance with Alpha, a beautiful, dangerous pirate with an agenda of her own. the locusts that now feed on human flesh.īut Banyan isn't the only one looking for the trees, and he's running out of time. Those who make it past the pirates and poachers can't escape the locusts.
Although Banyan's never seen a real tree-they were destroyed more than a century ago-his missing father used to tell him stories about the Old World.Įverything changes when Banyan meets a mysterious woman with a strange tattoo-a map to the last living trees on earth, and he sets off across a wasteland from which few return. Using salvaged scrap metal, he creates forests for rich patrons who seek a reprieve from the desolate landscape.
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