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Although the first signs of the
cataclysm appeared in the mid-1980s, it was not until a decade later
that the extent of the geological and ecological disaster became
apparent. By the early 21st century, humankind had begun its
retreat from an increasingly hostile surface to the safety of vast
subterranean shelters. By AD 2020, the churning, spitting earth
came to a boil. Billions died, and entire species were eradicated.
The few surviving humans huddled in their scattered iron and steel tombs
and waited.
Four hundred and fifty years after
it had sealed itself off, humanity returned to the daylight and was
greeted by a radically altered world — a world that logically should
not exist. A world populated by creatures from all of earth's past
geological eras.
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