Floresia

Out of the Shadows

By: Nowick Gray

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

One human species has lived a million years in peace and safety on a remote island. Another is advancing with predatory intent. With nowhere to flee, how can one young woman face the danger and live to tell the tale?

Floresia, princess of the primeval forest, emerges out of the shadows of a forgotten history to chronicle the last days of her people. This half-size human, Homo floresiensis, thrived on the Indonesian island of Flores until fifty thousand years ago, and the invasion of the El, Homo sapiens. The way Floresia saw it, we are all part of Earth’s creation. Why not coexist, with enough for all?

Undeterred by losses to the resident Komodo dragons, the warchief Fexis is bent on conquest. But a chance meeting of a wounded El warrior, Crowman, leads Floresia to a quest for connection, a dream of impossible love, and a last desperate hope for survival.

Nowick Gray writes the visionary Substack “New World Dreaming,” and a semimonthly column, “Through the Trees,” on the forest island he calls home. Floresia is his seventh novel. One reviewer praised Hunter’s Daughter as “by far the best book I have received through Library Thing's Early Reviewers' program… a fascinating story… great story-telling.”