Rhizome

Unable to escape the long shadow of childhood trauma Owen Black takes his sorrow into the woods never to return. However the trees know him and they have a different idea. They too have experienced abuse and they will not bear passive witness to his suffering. Instead Owen is transported entirely out of his world and deposited in a deep mysterious forest. Within this complex biological system dwells a vast arboreal mind a mind linked to other forests across parallel worlds. The forest mind heals Owens traumatized soul and in exchange recruits Owen to join a war. The target: humanity; the means: a biological weapon designed to alter the rapacious behavior of Owens species; the vector: Owen himself. Wright weaves an epic tale of transgression and redemption. He forges a transcendent mythology of symbiogenesis from existing concepts of ecology and evolution creating a radical vision of humankinds fate. Thrilling and thought-provoking playful yet uncompromising Rhizome is a mind-expanding journey into the possibilities of a forested multiverse.