Remapping the Human Template

Dale L. Sproule

May 2024 · Arctic Mage

About this ebook

In the wake of the solar event known as the Pulse, the collapse of civilization didn’t just take down governments, it shattered the beliefs that once gave life meaning. And left behind a wilderness so vast that hope and faith cowered at the edge of it, never daring to enter.

The Carnivorous Forest was a dark wood teeming with monsters, filled with secrets, and hungry for an evolution that would take humanity not just back to its former grandeur, but into the future.

The genetically adapted forest houses an AI that contains the ancestral memory of humankind; the only humans who know its true nature are a girl the forest mentally demolished in their first interface attempt – and that girl’s sister, the Executrix, who destroys anyone and anything she can’t control.

This is not a story of humanity, or of man against machine, it’s about transformation; the fusion of nature, flesh, code, and myth into something new. Something sacred. Something dangerous.

About the author

With over 100 short fiction, non-fiction, and poetry credits, Dale L. Sproule published two collections of psychological horror: Psychedelia Gothique (2014) and Psychedelia Noir (2020) as D.L. Sproule. Also in 2020, he began his Gods of the New Wilderness science fiction series with The Human Template, which was rewritten (2024) as Remapping the Human Template. Book Two, Crossing the Carnivorous Forest (summer, 2025) is going into wide release in February, 2026. Book Three, Following the Rain is coming in 2026, with the final volume anticipated in 2027. Dale also co-founded/published/edited the 1990s publication, TransVersions - Literature of the Fantastic.