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Cover Notes
In the distant future, the Sun is in a pre-nova state. The huge outpourings of energies from the dying star have all but removed animal life from the planet Earth, and vegetation rules supreme.
Gaps left when the fauna died have been filled by emulations from the flora - seeds with 'wings' fly like birds, mobile plants with long stalks 'walk' the jungle paths and climb the boughs of the huge banyan tree which covers the half of the world which eternally faces the sun and mile-long vegetable 'spiders spin their webs across the planets and moons.
Mankind has been reduced in numbers, stature and intelligence. Males are fewer in number than females which guide and control the remaining tree-dwelling tribes.
The book follows the lives of members of such a tribe when they are forced to travel away from their home. Many wonders are seen and strange creatures are met until as the book reaches its conclusion we see what is the fate of all life everywhere.
Publication History
First published in Magazine Of Fantasy And Science Fiction in 1961?
Then published in hardback by Sphere Books in 1962?
