Doris, Piserchia, – Earthchild

She called herself Reee and she was the last human being on Earth. This was the one thing she was sure of. Because Earth was not a dead planet, not by a long way. There were all manner of strange plants and bizarre animals, and there were the blue boys who insisted they were humanÑbut she always set fire to them.There was however Indigo, the all-devouring protoplasmic ocean that was literally gobbling up everything in the world. And there was the enigmatic Emeroo to whom she owed her continued existence.There were also the so-called Martians Ñhumans who had fled to Mars and only came back to Earth to scout for survivors and vent their futile furies on the inhospitable homeworld.And that is as much as we are going to tell about EARTHCHILD, one of the strangest and most fascinating science fiction novels DAW Books (or anyone else) ever published. It’s by Doris Piserchia,author of A BILLION YEARS OF EARTH and STAR RIDER, and it’s a very original DAW Original.