The Inheritors
People for whom manufactured ecosystems are ordinary and living nature is almost inaccessible history.

Rosmer CreativeNature replaced by ever more efficient synthetic mechanical technological systems...
Synthetic systems steadily replace living ecologies until manufactured environments are ordinary and the last living tree becomes both anomaly and memory.
These records describe the current shape of the book without treating unfinished plot or character work as settled canon.
People for whom manufactured ecosystems are ordinary and living nature is almost inaccessible history.
Those responsible for building, maintaining and interpreting synthetic nature.
Lives shaped by the knowledge that replication is not the same as continuity.
A bright, advanced city whose ecological systems are as engineered as its architecture.
A singular living presence that exposes the difference between preserving appearance and preserving life.
Convincing, functional environments assembled after organic continuity has been lost.