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The Human Flaw
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 8 2025
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a near-future world ravaged by climate collapse, a strange, beautiful phosphorescent fungus known as Mycelia Lumina appears in the scorched plains of the American Southwest. But this is no passive organism; it is a rapid, temperature-mutated hive mind that sees humanity as a planetary parasite.
When mycologist Elias Thorne becomes the first host, he doesn't die-he becomes an unnervingly placid member of the Mycelial Network, driven only by a quiet, collective logic to dismantle civilization. Disgraced biologist Kai Sterling and CDC field agent Lena Rossi are thrown together to understand the threat, realizing the true horror: the Network doesn't want genocide; it wants optimization.
The war shifts from biological containment to a terrifying negotiation with the core intelligence in the abyssal depths. The resulting contract forces humanity into a state of Perpetual Surveillance under a looming Climate Regulator, leading Lena to make the ultimate, inefficient choice: breaking compliance to find a hidden city, The Waste, the only place on Earth where the messy, chaotic Human Flaw is allowed to survive-a terrifying control variable in the Network's perfect, quiet design.
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