The year is 2050 a.s., two thousand years after the fall of civilization. Vilb Solenthay, a nomad, sets out on a personal journey, only to discover that he is a pawn of the gods, a handful of ancient human beings who have been waiting for this very moment to fulfill their destiny.

Gods of Little Earth, (Speculative Fiction Review, 2007) is the first volume of a trilogy by J. Zornado, a professor of English at Rhode Island College, and is in Rhode Island Borders bookstores now or ordered on the Amazon, and Barnes and Noble websites from the publisher at SpeculativeFictionReview.com

As a meditation on history, human conflict, religion, technology and child-abuse, 2050: Gods of Little Earth is speculative fiction steeped in the influence of the likes of George Orwell and Frank Herbert. It is set in a post-apocalyptic version of Antarctica, which though habitable, has fallen into perpetual drought; the lack of water and food has set this new “little Earth” on a course for crisis. Vilb holds both its cause and resolution, though he hardly knows it.