Rift - The Sixth Extinction

In 2053, paleontologist Jerome 'Romey' Powell leads a dig in North Africa toward a discovery that could revive the world's collapsing bird populations, while the biotech firm Mitogen begins cloning back some of Earth's most iconic lost megafauna. Nearly a century later, beneath the Saharan sands of Algeria, physicist Lotta Eklund probes the mysteries of the universe—and above her, vast domes house self-sustaining ecosystems, including the ARC, an artificial preserve of revived sub-Saharan species overseen by veterinarian Camila Perez.

These interlocking stories trap humanity in a web of its own making, as an ominous new era dawns—brought on by the Rift. Thomas Asher's Rift: The Sixth Extinction is a cautionary science-fiction epic about the dangers of de-extinction, anthropogenic climate change, and the hubris of prying open the deepest mysteries of reality.