

Each Involute carried thousands or even millions of people. IIRC, bears jump through those Involutes to gain.something, and this is considered not right by the other animals. A big storm was an important part of the plot, though I'm not sure if it was just a threat or if it was the reason for the river trip in the first place. The main character as an uplifted sloth and human minds are in semi-material structures called Involutes.

But from what I remember reading it (has probably been 40 years or more) there was a lot of resistance to the small group that was trying to learn the technologyīut for some reason it became necessary to travel along a river to a stash of technology. In the ruins of what was once a university complex, a vast band of cats, more highly evolved than those on the outside, sought to master the works of men. Old technology (implied to be nuclear) was forbidden, Each generation was more forceful and intelligent than the last. Yet unlike men, whom the disease could destroy, the animals of the planet thrived. When desperate measures failed to control what men had begun and could not stop, they fled their polluted planet, leaving behind an epidemic virus born of experimentation.Īnd the characters in the story were all intelligent (and possibly humanoid, not sure) animals living in a community.Ĭheck. Everything in this game feels smooth and realistic, and you have the freedom to explore anywhere you want. The graphics in this game is too vivid and detailed. You can do various parkour and jump through various buildings, killing the zombies. Read around 1998, though I think it was written a few decades earlier The world of Dying Light 2 is very dangerous and thrilling. This sounds like possibly the 1972 Andre Norton novel A Breed to Come.
