{"title":"Tim Weed","description":"Tim Weed is the author of The Gatepost,  A Field Guide to Murder \u0026amp; Fly Fishing, Will Poole's Island, and The Afterlife Project, which was named a best book of 2025 by Library Journal and the Toronto Star. He serves on the core faculty of the Newport MFA for creative writing and is the cofounder of the Cuba Writers Program. Weed spent the first part of his career leading educational travel programs around the globe and was a featured expert for National Geographic Expeditions. He lives in rural Vermont with his family and three disobedient cats. 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Marooned in an uninhabited wilderness, microbiologist Nicholas Hindman searches for evidence of remnant populations. He has a protocol to follow and is determined to do so to the bitter end-though he knows he's probably searching in vain, stranded on an empty planet silently orbiting the sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, back in 2068 AD, a devastating hyperpandemic has quelled all talk of interstellar travel and thrown the future of humanity into grave doubt. Four surviving members of the Centauri team board a vintage solar-powered sailing yacht for a harrowing journey in search of a second test subject. Their destination is a small volcanic island north of Sicily rumored to harbor that rarest of creatures: a woman capable of getting pregnant, thereby ensuring this generation of Homo sapiens isn't the last. 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Unforgettable.\" \u003cb\u003e-Danielle Trussoni, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Puzzle Master\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A brave and brilliant imagining of Earth in the years just after a megapandemic has killed almost everyone, and ten thousand years hence, when a test subject emerges from suspension to explore a wilderness echoing with solitude. . . . Riveting and wrenching and suffused with beauty-the haunting and intimate beauty of the natural world rendered by a master.\" \u003cb\u003e-Peter Heller, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dog Stars\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Weed is a fabulous storyteller working at the top of his game. 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