The altered-right government has won the 64th presidential election. Meanwhile, universities have gone on strike, vaccinations against the looming bio-plague are rolling out, and a trade embargo with the East has forced Europe and North America to unite under USENA. In an era almost schizophrenically poised between religious fanaticism and a mania for scientific hegemony, all that remains is the hideousness of a world defiantly resisting change.
Across a polyphony of five different perspectives, readers are "evented" through the biological heresy portrayed in Brandon W. Teigland's debut novel Under a Collapsing Sky. At its centre is the mysterious drug Phoenix Tears, an unknown brain parasite, which once metabolised, could be capable of either bringing on the bliss of metamorphosis, or the ritual murder of those looking for a cure.
