<aside> 📖 This is the official website of the book Temple of the Bird Men by Sam CJ
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After a devastating catastrophe wipes out human civilization, leaving barely a few million survivors across the globe, humankind has to start from the beginning.
A thousand years after the catastrophe, a nascent pre-industrial civilization struggles to build a stable kingdom in what used to be the Malayan peninsula. The glorious cities of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur have been wiped from memory. The towers that challenged the clouds had been toppled by the earthquakes radiating from the point of impact, reaching 9.6 on the Richter scale. The rubble is buried under the rich, arable soil deposited by the tsunami that followed.
A farmer from the Southern Shangee province, the present-day Changi in Singapore, finds something strange during his search for a source of water - what appears to be a giant metal sail sticking out of the ground. When the news of his discovery is brought to the attention of the king, a set of events is set in motion that threatens to change the balance of power that has kept the kingdom together for centuries.
It came to me 20 years ago. Guess where?
Pun intended.
No, I am not being overly pessimistic.