Prompt

This cover for a science fiction story features a glowing lichen in the foreground, resembling a complex symbiosis of fungi and algae with thin tendrils emitting a soft luminescent light. The lichen reaches towards the hand of a person in a spacesuit, symbolizing contact between humans and a new intelligent life form. In the background, a ruined futuristic city with half-collapsed skyscrapers overgrown with lush vegetation. In the sky, an orbital ring, the New Eden, shines brightly in the sunlig