Christopher Leadem ~6 hr read

Kalus, whose name means The Carnivore, wakes to stalking footsteps in the shadows, the lone he-wolf Akar, close on the edge of his tribe in a valley at the dawn of a new, harsh world.

Christopher Leadem's 2000 novel is an atmospheric post-apocalyptic fantasy of survival and awakening. Vivid, lyrical, ambitious. Read it for a modern tale in an ancient key, a hunter of a primal, transformed world, a bond forged with a wolf, and the slow stirring of something more in the ruins of the future.

In its time

Published in 2000, during the 2000s, open-culture and post-scarcity visions.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).