For centuries, Monitors have walked among us, studying us. We had nothing they wanted, and we were too primitive to interact with them as equals. Then, things got interesting. Marco Antonio, a sanguinary eater who has observed humans for over eight hundred years, met Ann Jacob, a retired schoolteacher, and discovered that volcanoes are not the only things that explode. Five years after the Yellowstone eruption covered one-third of the continent, America has survived. By dealing with one problem at a time, humans have hung on. Even though they were damaged and crippled by hunger and disease, they used the scientific process to find a treatment that would heal shredded lungs and the horrible side effects suffered by all vertebrates (including Monitors and humans). Even though Monitors do not normally interfere with human problems, they did help to find a cure for the diseases caused by volcanic ash and obsidian shards. Despite the love between Ann and Marco Antonio, the presence of the... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Monitors of Destruction (Darleen Johnson)