THIS FICTION IS CURRENTLY UNDERGOING LARGE CHANGES. THIS VERSION WILL BE DELETED WHEN THOSE CHANGES ARE FINISHED AND THE NEW VERSION WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON AFTER. Michael Harris Larson wakes up in a strange machine deep underground. He does not know why he is there or how. Above, the surface is a dark and unknowable place, devastated by events long past. Soon Michael will have to cross this dangerous world, uncovering the horrors it hides, and seeing things humanity was never meant to see. A story about morality, evolution, and the quest for what really matters, The Later Dark explores Earth in the year 3000, 913 years after humanity made contact with entities they could not hold back or understand. INFO: This is my first story here, so expect it to be rough at times. I will go back through this when it's done and edit into better shape. This story has an ending that I have planned and that I will try to get to in under 100K words. I may self publish this if it does well enough. COVER: neural.love AI.