Pine Dead

Pine Dead

A country that has lost many men in a long war comes up with an idea to increase the population. They secretly fertilize the women to give birth to twins and triplets. Women give birth to a lot of babies and the population increase gets out of hand. The new generation is overcrowded with so little facilities. The schools become overcrowded; there is not enough food, medicine and sanitation. This generation is brought up in difficult circumstances. When they become the young adults starting to rule the country, they revolt against the past government and change it through a coup. The first thing they do is to neutralize everyone so they cannot reproduce and have babies. Then they organize people in groups of eight consisting of four couples. Each family is given a baby to nurture. The babies are made synthetically by incubators and carry the mixed genes of their eight parents. 

After sometime, the population decreases. Now the new generation is left with a heavy work load and many old people to take care of. The new generation rebels again. This time by spreading a virus that is meant to slowly kill the old parents. The virus is designed to suddenly kill by withering the body. Therefore people fall dead like a pine cone falling off a tree. The virus spreads out of hand, killing the whole population and spreading further to other countries, taking over the world.

There seems to be no hope but a vaccine that is not yet sure to be effective. The whole human race is about to vanish. All Governments provide people with special pens and notebooks and asks them to write down whatever they can so that their life stories may remain as the sign of an intelligent race gone for good. The notebooks and other valuable things are to be sealed in time capsules.

The novel is read through three stories written by three characters in their notebooks, each representing one of the mentioned generations and explaining the events from their perspective. Also the readers travel along with Mahoor, an old man who immediately leaves town to find help. He seeks help from people who had not accepted becoming part of an eight parent family and had escaped many years ago. Through his thrilling journey the readers learn about the past life of the people in the story and the past city…