A hundred years after the Big Wet, Earth has been left a broken, infertile
world of rock and sand. The town of Providens is like many others on the
post-Big Wet planet — small, mostly illiterate and struggling for
survival. But while most communities are like Providens, not all the cities that
survived the Big Wet are. Some are like Newbegin, burgeoning metropolises that
combine pieces of past societies with the new status quo. When Providens
welcomes a stranger named Michael into its midst, will the quiet man lead them
to the better world of Newbegin or shatter what little order still
exists?

Visual artist(s): Christopher J. Mitten