In M. Soler's 6060 Vision, Sam leaves the isolated settlement of Research to study life across a future Earth reshaped by extreme evolution. The expedition changes after a wandering Baast named Kit survives a mutation that transforms her into a gigantic predator known as a Sen. While searching for the cause behind a spreading silver infection that consumes living bodies and turns victims violent, Sam finds civilizations descended from animals that developed after humanity lost control of the planet. In the shadows is SAGE, a surviving human civilization attempting to reclaim dominance against newly evolved societies. As fear surrounding the infection spreads between settlements already shaped by unfamiliar environments and changing survival customs, and entire populations begin reorganizing around the advancing contamination, Sam begins finding signs that someone is not merely surviving the catastrophe, but directing it.

M. Soler’s 6060 Vision has many moving pieces, but the author does an excellent job of keeping readers on course. Sam is a created lifeform grown from engineered organic matter called CORAL. Sam is out to study civilizations reshaped by the Glow, a radiation-driven evolutionary force after humanity’s collapse. This is when, as the preppers say, SHTF. The world-building is extraordinary, filled with creatures and civilizations. A standout is the Sagion of Sao Paulo, descendants of small tree-dwelling monkeys living among the overgrown remains of ancient Brazil. But the best of the best is Anther, a green-skinned humanoid extension of the Root, which is a living green spire whose linked bodies preserve two thousand cycles of memory. Where Soler excels is in blending the futuristic, like Sam, with the totally primitive. And that includes one of the greatest inventions of all time: the wheel. Soler shows an entire city adapting to a simple invention in believable stages, beginning with delivery workers using carts for hauling supplies, then to children making homemade racing chariots. This is all in addition to the silver plague, melding elements together with sharp, intelligent writing. Readers along for the journey will become hard and fast fans. Very highly recommended.

In 6060 by M. Soler, Sam is a CORAL observer sent from Research into a changed Earth where new intelligent species have built lives beyond human design. After a field mission exposes Sam to Silver, a spreading infection that rewrites flesh and behavior, the journey shifts from study to survival. Among the Baast in the canopy, the Kalak of the grasslands, the Sagoin of Sao Paulo, and the Root’s living memory, Sam learns that observation can alter every society it touches. As SAGE advances through the southern continent with weapons tied to old human power, Sam must carry what has been learned back to the people who made them, even as the Silver moves through Sam's body and the border between creation and personhood begins to change.

M. Soler’s 6060 Vision shows a striking invention through Sam, a CORAL observer whose infected body turns field research into moral decision. Soler gives Sam a form of personhood that grows out of action, especially when Sam saves Kit by grafting a CORAL arm onto her wounded body. The Baast canopy village shows a gift for location, since Sam wakes up tied safely above the forest after sunlight becomes part of recovery. Sao Paulo also shows the author’s skill at civic imagination when the wheel design changes Banho’s delivery platform, then spreads through Sagoin city life. Soler makes the Silver infection more than danger by linking it to Sam’s body, choices, and changing place among the New Peoples. This is inventive science fiction shaped by an author with rare command of speculative life.