The Wan, by Bo Balder Alone and unprepared in the

Alone and unprepared in the wilderness

Derek must work together with a host of supernatural entities—werewolves and witches included—to preserve Appalachia from environmental ruin

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and a fierce tribe of Yeti warriors

When she notices a surprising number of cases of food poisoning in the area

The Wan, by Bo Balder Alone and unprepared in theIn a far future, on a faraway planet, humans have become infected by the alien Wan, creatures that communicate by feeding each other poems composed of their own flesh. Obsessed alien and former human biologist Ing infects Frog, a barren slave girl, and Firdaus, deposed ruler of the human settlement, with the alien fungus. When a once in a millennium Wan reproductive event threatens to destroy all human life on the planet, Frog and Firdaus must choose