The Garden of the Galaxy

The world did not end in fire. It ended in silence. One day, petroleum and natural gas simply stopped working. Civilization collapsed into chaos as energy systems failed across the globe. In order to survive, humanity turned toward a new resource:Plants. Genetically engineered forests became fuel. Bio-organic industries reshaped entire cities. Massive underground root networks spread silently beneath the planet.
But something else was happening beneath the soil. The forests were waking up. Han Seorin, an environmental researcher living in a dim and struggling city, spends her nights caring for a small rooftop plant while playing music beneath the moonlight. Then the plant responds. Signals begin moving through underground fungal networks. Forests across the world start communicating. And a quiet potted plant named Rian becomes the center of humanity's first contact with a new planetary intelligence.
As governments panic and cities begin to change, Seorin discovers that the Earth itself may already be alive in ways humanity never understood. The Garden of the Galaxy is a sweeping biopunk science fiction epic exploring ecological consciousness, coexistence, evolution, and the future of intelligence itself. A story about a planet learning to speak. And humanity learning how to listen.