Saint Elspeth

Back before the wars when I was a pathologist, San Francisco had one physcian for every one thousand people in the city. Neo SF had grown to more than fifteen thousand. There was only one physician for all those people. Doctor Elspeth Darrow.

Wick Welker's newest novel, Saint Elspeth, is an instant sci-fi classic! Twenty years after the arrival of aliens, Dr. Elspeth Darrow does everything she can to help the citizens of Neo SF be cared for. A journey for some medical supplies leads to some shocking discoveries for Dr. Darrow and it's up to her, and her ‘fellowship', to figure out the mysteries that lead to our planet's potential end or salvation.

I can no longer sleep because of the worry, but it's no longer a worry for the present which is already sealed - the story already written. Nor do I worry about my tragic past that the Hila came and stole from me. No, I worry for the world that comes after the relics of pre-war people are finally swept from the earth. I worry that we're on the cusp of reverse human evolution where clinical trials are replaced by witch trials. I fear I am a mere residue on glass - an airbrushed silhouette of a grasping hand reaching for the walls of ancient caves. We had one chance at civilization. I'm uncertain we deserve another.

“What were once were? People are the same now as they were then.”

“Little by little, each human mind adds to the story of knowledge. Someone toils their whole lives trying to figure something out. They figure out maybe a millimeter of the problem, and the next generation takes it from there. Everyone is like one link in the chain of scientific knowledge.”