Other people get cabin fever, still others turn into pediphiles and necropheliacs. The underground garden of eden sours soon enough.

The fruit of the alien plant has an intoxicating effect, its totally dark and soon they're all copulating with wild abandon. Oxygen is abundant and they are so deep underground that the temperature has risen to a comfy degree. there are gauzy walls of chloroplast that lead into fleshy pockets with giant potatoe-like bottoms, which they discern are edible and quite delicious. the earth is like a flower pot overstuffed with rooty intestines and is just about to bust. The terrified duke gang flees to a cave, where they discover, that not only do these plants have hollow roots, but all roots connect into one overwhelming root system. It doesn't help when mysterious floating disks begin incinerating everything left alive.they're cleaning up the blood spores, ridding their garden of pests. Even tho population drops at a rate of about 1/20th per day, adulterers are stoned to death. These people were conservative, farming hicks before the plants took over, now they're all ignorant sheep with superstitious, primitive customs. Nothing is left except the desperate, blind desire to live. The entire pyramid of human needs has toppled. Everyone is forced to live in a common house together where the lack of sex has all parties on edge. if all that isn't bad enough, the excess of carbon monoxide causes the winters to be almost unbearably cold. The congregation is ruled by a heavy handed holy roller who's really a drag, your typical anti-science, god-fearing, hard-ass christian coalition leader. occasionally a person with a useful occupation is spared and assimilated into the group, but then they find themselves chomping on their pal come november.

Strangers are ground into sausages and the fleshy links are reserved for thanksgiving dinner. marauders wander around stealing precious supplies, so that the only known, organized society has developed a savage custom of execution.

Human beings are pretty scarce, the ones left live in mortal fear of one another. In just 7 years these green bullies have successfully choked off all other plant life. massive and imposing, they suck up all the resources and wreak major havoc on the ecosystem. In this post apocalyptic tale of vegetable domination, the earth has been overtaken by a strain of alpha plants. The Genocides is a classic science fiction novel by Thomas M Disch.

The genocides by thomas m disch