Of Wood Metal and Glass

<p>Long after the mighty dogs of war had barked their last three primitive settlements struggle to survive distant but connected by a fragile wooden trackway. Brent sails the trackways between the settlements ferrying materials and goods from his forest edge settlement and the metalworkers and outwards to the glass workers.<br />The desert wastelands between the three settlements are being consumed by an unknown force gigantic funnels into which the parched sands are being slowly sucked. But there is something more a malevolent cloud-like presence haunts the desert.<br />Brent is uncommonly inquisitive and against the decree of the elders stumbles upon a hitherto undiscovered treasure house - an entire department store buried and overgrown by the forest over the countless years. And so change comes to the three settlements but not in the way that they had expected.</p><p>"With a wry nod to other books in his 'Sapient Continuum' series D. B. Reynolds-Moreton shows us life after the last great war. The inhabitants of this land react to the strange remains of an earlier civilisation in a totally believable fashion. This is good solid intelligent sci-fi." - SFC Editor.</p>