Strange and Beautiful Book Club

Within the smallest continent a boundless world is born…
Thirty thousand years ago the machine age consumed the world.
The only remaining resource was biology.
Now, the battle for the Earth is ongoing. Slave empires rule the largest continents -- bastions of technology from the machine age that stripped the planet millennia ago.
Hidden at the edge of the world a more vibrant people are rising to challenge them: a lineage who grasped the power of life and death to transmute the human heart.
Among them is Oji Anabasi -- podgy, hairy, sex-obsessed and terrified of death. In other words, a typical remnant sapiens on a planet long claimed by a new breed of people.
But what could primitive Oji offer such astonishing people?
His story, in four parts, is told through the eyes of his wilful mother, bittersweet nursemaid, steadfast wife and ardent advocate.
One relic human cannot change the course of evolution, but a single mutation might.