This cli-fi novel from a notable archaeologist and anthropologist
explores a frozen future where archaic species struggle to survive an
apocalyptic Ice Age
One thousand years in the future, the zyme, a thick blanket of luminous
green slime, covers the oceans. Glaciers three-miles-high rise over the
continents. The old stories say that when the Jemen, godlike beings from
the past, realized their efforts to halt global warming had gone
terribly wrong, they made a desperate gamble to save life on earth and
recreated species that had survived the worst of the earth's Ice Ages.
Sixteen-summers-old Lynx and his best friend Quiller are members of the
Sealion People--archaic humans known as Denisovans. They live in a world
growing colder, a world filled with monstrous predators that hunt them
for food. When they flee to a new land, they meet a strange old man who
impossibly seems to be the last of the Jemen. He tells Lynx the only way
he can save his world is by sacrificing himself to the last true god, a
quantum computer named Quancee.