Forty Years Ago, Something Fell In The Pacific. Now Earth Is A Biomechanical Hell

Forty-one years after something fell into the Pacific, an alien jungle has swallowed the surface. Its towering harvesters strip the nervous systems from anyone they catch. The bunker's saltkeeper knows how to make human nerves useless to the machines, but every protective injection slowly poisons the people he's trying to save.

With the filters collapsing, the settlement's leader plans a desperate march to a distant outpost. There isn't enough salt to protect everyone, and an adult dose can kill a child. Then the saltkeeper discovers one material the spreading rot cannot consume: the translucent membrane of...