The Expanded Earth
by Mikey Please· 2025
The first instalment of Mikey Please's fantasy follows the travails of shrunken humans on an adventure. One sunny Sunday, without warning, humankind is reduced to the height of a handspan—a transformation as potentially fatal as it is inconvenient.
On a remote coastal path, Giles awakes in his new body to discover a world reshaped and magnified into a place of abundance and peril. Desperate to reconnect with his loved ones, he seeks the help of fellow survivors, and together they embark on a quest across the altered landscape. But as their journey unfolds, the more the question persists—are they still truly human, or has their reduction in size marked the beginning of a descent into savagery, an evolution into something other?
Elsewhere, one week earlier, Professor Elizabeth Goodwin makes a discovery—God is alive and physically among us, but not in the form we've been taught to expect. As Goodwin prepares to make first contact with the omnipresent ocean-spanning creature, forces conspire in the wings, and the spectre of imminent catastrophe inches closer and closer still.
The first in a trilogy, this illustrated debut novel is set in the world of the micropocalypse.
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The first instalment of Mikey Please's fantasy follows the travails of shrunken humans on an adventure. One sunny Sunday, without warning, humankind is reduced to the height of a handspan—a transformation as potentially fatal as it is inconvenient. On a remote coastal path, Giles awakes in his new body to discover a world reshaped and magnified into a place of abundance and peril. Desperate to reconnect with his loved ones, he seeks the help of fellow survivors, and together they embark on a quest across the altered landscape. But as their journey unfolds, the more the question persists—are they still truly human, or has their reduction in size marked the beginning of a descent into savagery, an evolution into something other? Elsewhere, one week earlier, Professor Elizabeth Goodwin makes a discovery—God is alive and physically among us, but not in the form we've been taught to expect. As Goodwin prepares to make first contact with the omnipresent ocean-spanning creature, forces conspire in the wings, and the spectre of imminent catastrophe inches closer and closer still. The first in a trilogy, this illustrated debut novel is set in the world of the micropocalypse.