Project Gutenberg 2005-12-26 Copyrighted. Read the copyright notice inside this book for details. 166 Leadem, Christopher The Mantooth "The Mantooth" by Christopher Leadem is a science fiction/fantasy novel written in the early 21st century. The story follows a young tribesman named Kalus, who grapples with his identity after being banished from his tribe for sparing the life of a starving wolf. As he attempts to survive in a harsh and dangerous world filled with prehistoric creatures and remnants of a fallen civilization, Kalus encounters a girl named Sylviana, who emerges from a mysterious past of her own. The narrative explores themes of survival, compassion, and the struggle between primal instincts and human emotion. At the start of the narrative, Kalus wakes up to find a lone wolf trying to steal food from his tribe's cave. Instead of allowing his tribesmen to kill the wolf, he intervenes, leading to his expulsion from the tribe and leaving him to navigate life as an outcast. As he wanders through the valley, he soon encounters Sylviana, who is living a sheltered life within a cave filled with strange artifacts from a bygone era of advanced civilization. Their initial interactions are filled with tension and misunderstanding, but they quickly realize they must rely on one another to survive the terrors of the Valley, including giant predators and the threat of the past looming over them. Their connection deepens as they face these challenges, setting the stage for a unique bond and the exploration of what it means to be human in a world turned wild. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 82.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Fantasy literature PS Text Science Fiction Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 588024 2025-10-07T11:12:00.744917 text/html 587845 2025-01-16T01:03:33.673054 text/html 290717 2025-10-07T11:12:08.625842 application/epub+zip 301541 2025-10-07T11:12:02.576869 application/epub+zip 301540 2025-10-07T11:12:01.444904 application/epub+zip 523042 2025-10-07T11:12:13.462821 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 473048 2025-10-07T11:12:07.894911 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 436050 2022-09-08T10:52:48.343836 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 536142 2025-10-07T11:12:00.317940 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 537389 2005-12-26T07:22:53 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17267 2025-10-07T11:12:13.605857 application/rdf+xml 12611 2025-10-07T11:12:01.931892 image/jpeg 3329 2025-10-07T11:12:01.690880 image/jpeg 205790 2005-12-26T07:22:53 application/octet-stream application/zip 283843 2025-10-07T11:12:00.790923 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog