Trials of the Warmland by Gaddy Bergmann is the second novel in the Feral World series, a post-apocalyptic odyssey set 3,000 years in the future. Humanity has barely survived a near-extinction-level event - the collision of a major asteroid on Earth in the middle of the Twenty-First Century, complicated by the vagaries of global warming.

In Trials of the Warmland, Gaddy Bergmann continues the odyssey of Blake and friends, the last remnants of the Kamishi tribe. They have reached the Warmland, but now they find that the Warmland is not the paradise they thought, and making it their home is not easy. There is no respite from danger, and now a new adversary, the Lunari — descendants of those few who escaped the apocalypse by colonizing the moon — have returned to Earth with ideas of their own.

The series is unique in that it offers an optimistic view of post-apocalyptic society, which has reformed into local tribes that depend on hunting and gathering. Gaddy Bergmann (Denver) is a zoologist and microbiologist, and he carefully crafts a world where the biosphere develops naturally in the absence of Man’s misguided management of the planet.

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Trials of the Warmland.
The second novel of The Feral World series.
By Gaddy Bergmann.
Published by Flying Pen Press LLC, February 2008, under the imprint Flying Pen Press Fiction.
312 pages, glossary, author’s notes, suggested reading.
ISBN-13: 978-0-9795889-4-5. Trade paperback. Cover Price: $16.95.
5.5" x 8.5" x 0.653", 0.88lb.
Flying Pen Press catalog number FIC-L-01002.