Simian's Way — Stephen Donald Huff

Simian Wynwood opened Simian's Gate by recording first contact with alien intelligence. This alien broadcast delivered the so-called SETI-Store, which remained in an incomprehensible state until a young savant used outmoded analog processing equipment to decode it all in a weekend.After he freely released his groundbreaking switch into the public domain on Sunday, Bright Monday quickly followed. Interest exploded. Within weeks, technophiles all over the world began producing countless inventions from automated black-box factories. Civilization rapidly changed. Renewable energy, resolved. Global pollution, remediated. Cancer, cured.Eighteen months later, six-and-a-half billion people lay withered in death, victims of a technological Trojan horse and all murdered at the hands of family, friends and neighbors. In the aftermath, survivors divide, hunter and hunted. Extinction looms. No one will survive Simian's Way unscathed.