Of Mycelium and Men Audiobook Libro.fm

Lida was their last chance for an uncolonized planet But a worldspanning fungus had colonized it first

Agetha and her husband have spent their whole lives in the fleets zeroG Now all is turmoil as the fleet lands discovering they are surrounded by a single fungal biomass spanning the entire planet To build a new home the fleet must confront a dangerous organism and Agetha must decide if she can raise a family in this inhospitable landscape

Jane Brighton holds tenuous command over the colony and its administrators She and the other genemodded leaders emerged from their fourhundredyear suspended animation to find a crew much different from the one that departed Old Earth Jane must direct the colonys fragile growth and defend it against being overrun by the fastgrowing biomass

But there is something none of the colonists know The massive organism that spans the planet is not simply a fungal mass nor even a chimerical combination of species that once roamed the planet The biomass has desires and goals and one is to know these strange beings carving out a home in its midst