By Kim Vacariu

In the distant future the human damage done to Nature over past centuries has come home to roost. At the same time, amazing technological advances like maglev-powered vehicles, human-like computer home assistants, and in the case of Zee and Lectra, an unworldly love-making process, vie as balances to a resource-starved, over-heated planet. Empowered by the long view that participation in an amazing life-extension experiment offers, the two gain a strange yet obvious understanding of humankind's permanent inability to halt its drive to save itself through trading the Earth's fragile remaining natural resources for short-term gains. Zee and Lectra decide saving what's left of Nature is worth dying for, scientifically engineering "monkeywrenching" direct actions that cripple projects designed to enhance the never-ending greed of humanity. Incredible escapes from capture, aided by a strange device found on a Mars expedition, highlight the pair's futuristic romance and plans to derail the "human stupidity loop" that plagues the planet. The two-book series, restored from a text written before the internet and telecommunications explosions, gives uncanny legitimacy to a predictable fate.