An Empty Land of Plenty Author:Mark McNamara Given enough time and the right conditions life will always find a way, even in the interior of a comet as it makes its way through the interstellar void. 30,000 years ago this comet swept by a very different Earth than the one we know today, a planet where two types of humans struggled to survive against the environment and each other. The let... more »hal virus that rained down from the sky proved to be the death knell for those who called themselves The People, but through a mother and her daughter they leave a legacy that will come to be the salvation of humanity when the comet returns with its deadly pathogen. Rusty Weber,a nerdy high school senior, doesn?t know how or why he survived the Prionic Flu but sees the newly-depopulated Earth as a fresh start, a chance to do things his way. His journey takes an unexpected turn when he realizes that the girl he secretly loves has also survived, and he sets out to find her in this new and often dangerous world.« less