Evergreen Planet

About the Book

Daniel Cornell grows up on an Earth covered by an elevated level of oxygen produced by a worldwide growth of moss. To help prevent uncontrollable fires, governments issue decrees to ban many kinds of incendiary technology-even firearms. Thus, all economies collapse into feuding city-states, where swords and bows and arrows are common weapons of the times. The Conservancy replaces the United States Federal Government and imposes it authority over the land. The near future will bring death to the moss and result in global fires that burn the Earth's surface to a crisp. With salvaged materials, the Conservancy begins the task to build survival domes on the floor of New York Bay. Trained by the greatest logician of his time, Daniel accepts his government's request for him to destroy mammoth crocodiles that threaten completion of this haven project. Throughout his adventures, he uses the bow and arrow to defend himself against man and beast. Forced to accept the help of Josiah Rhue, the salvage kingpin and henchman of an enemy high in the government, Daniel increases his understanding of Rhue and realizes that this enemy poses the greater threat to the survival of humankind.

About the Author

Always captivated by stories of the legendary archer Robin Hood, Robert Gillum spent years enjoying the sport of archery and the manufacture of his own archery equipment. At last, the limited field of archery adventure stories—mostly rehashed versions of the Robin Hood stories—led Gillum to attempt his own first contribution to this literary field. Hindered by the demands of everyday work, his desire to write stretched over many years to yield a novel that has been a labor of love steeped in the lore of archery that has made it endure through the ages, in Evergreen Planet.