
"It's End of Days... With his men missing in action and the target of his black-op mission killed by his own men, Sargent Jose Melendez requests extraction from the jungles of Brazil. Prior leaving, he sees an entire city population wiped out by apparent violence by its own citizens against each other -- no patterns or organization, just a free for all murderous rage. Upon arrival at a makeshift refugee, army fire-base, he learns that the majority of the male population has been affected by toxic steroid levels resulting in uncontrollable violent behaviors. With the human species at risk of extinction, his own past is the key to the future. Joining forces with Dr. Marcella Del Cruz, an experiment in long-term cryogenic sleep is in the final stages of testing. However, a several month cryogenic sleeps goes terribly wrong, leaving Melendez frozen in stasis on Ross Island, Antarctica, for more than 160 years. He awakens to a future where there are walled mega-states run by a militant matriarchies, with cybernetic life forms, artificial persons (AP's) providing services to keep their civilization flourishing. While human horrors such as war, poverty, and disease of the "Pre-Fall" days
For young readers
Book data: Open Library