ANTHROPOMUNDUS

A Post-Human Zoology

by Kyre Fiskrof

Once prosperous in the Orion-Cygnus arm of the Milky Way, all of humanity was befallen by a terrible fate about ten thousand centuries from today in a merciless, undefeated extragalactic force of an eon's eld. From Earth to the planet before you, human civilization had been completely annihilated, with all remaining of human beings reduced to wild animals, living tools, all manner of creature of various bizarre, baroque, nightmarish description and punishment.

Humanity as we knew it had come to an end. But perhaps with every fate, there is a new beginning.

Fast forward thirty-five million years into the future on what was once a terraform-in-progress outpost planet of humanity. From being humiliated and virtually left to die, could you envision your greatest grandchildren resembling a panoply of porpoises, whales or dolphins, or as an assemblage of numerous fishy forms? as crablike crawlers on the ocean floor feeding on detritus and the sunken carcasses of their cousins? Maybe they will just resemble featureless worms, or literal human beans. But what about living chandeliers of hairy fingers gently floating in the ocean, collecting particles? as living flotsam, infused with symbiotic algae, floating mindless and green, soaking up the sun?

Whether they have recognizable faces or those that only you as their greatest grandparents could love―if they have faces to speak of―the faunal composition of this planet is made up entirely of your descendants as a human being of today. Welcome to Anthropomundus!