Manor Zoo

Manor Zoo is a literary allegory set after the collapse of human civilization, when a mutated pandemic leaves the Bronx Zoo abandoned and the animals within it forced to survive on their own. Cut off from their caretakers and surrounded by a hostile, ruined world, the animals must decide how to govern themselves—and what kind of society they are willing to become.

At the center of the story is a simple but dangerous question: when survival is at stake, is compassion a liability or a responsi...