Publisher's Synopsis
The universe exploded. The temperature dropped and plasma froze into atoms. Molecules bonded. Nurtured in four levels of pre and post atomic structure, life took root. Billions of years passed before a social level of organization grew from these physical foundations.Sexual and parental love brought success to the human species. Societies flourished, each a function of language. Evolution might have given humans the best society and the best language, but the planet they lived on was too small. Cultures gobbled each other, and the sole survivor grew rigid in the absence of outside influences.Collapse was inevitable, the end of the Old Eld. In time fresh linguistic and social diversity gave evolution a second chance.
