After the "war with no name" a cat assassin searches for his lost love
in Repino's strange, moving sci-fi epic that channels both Homeward
Bound and A Canticle for Leibowitz.
The "war with no name" has begun, with human extinction as its goal. The
instigator of this war is the Colony, a race of intelligent ants who,
for thousands of years, have been silently building an army that would
forever eradicate the destructive, oppressive humans. Under the Colony's
watchful eye, this utopia will be free of the humans' penchant for
violence, exploitation and religious superstition. As a final step in
the war effort, the Colony uses its strange technology to transform the
surface animals into high-functioning two-legged beings who rise up to
kill their masters.
Former housecat turned war hero, Mort(e) is famous for taking on the
most dangerous missions and fighting the dreaded human bio-weapon EMSAH.
But the true motivation behind his recklessness is his ongoing search
for a pre-transformation friend--a dog named Sheba. When he receives a
mysterious message from the dwindling human resistance claiming Sheba is
alive, he begins a journey that will take him from the remaining human
strongholds to the heart of the Colony, where he will discover the
source of EMSAH and the ultimate fate of all of earth's creatures.
