The Eyes (novel series)
The Eyes was a series of science fiction novels written in the 1970s by Richard Gordon under the pen name Stuart Gordon. The series is set in a post-apocalyptic world where the same nature was torn and mutated. The origin of the catastrophe is at first uncertain, due to the passing of centuries and to the sheer scale of destruction it unleashed upon the land. In book two some characters speculate that the original cause might be a large-scale nuclear war or a cometary impact, while in book three it is finally revelaled that the cataclysm originated from a failed attempt to tap energy from a parallel universe to warm-up the Earth, which at the time was facing a deadly cooling of its climate. This contact with a parallel universe generated too much energy for the Earth to absorb safely, leading to a major activation of all tectonic faults, with geological, oceanic and atmospheric disasters hitting the globe and the extra background radiation causing widespread mutations in humans aa well as other living beings. Following a fateful planetary conjunction happening at the same time of the upheavals, Earth's axis shifted and the duration of the year increased to 370 days.