There is an apocalypse coming no one talks about. Try to guess which end of the world scenario I’m not writing about before you get to the end of this post. My books will help you with the process of elimination.
- Endemic (coming soon) is a nerdy and neurotic person combatting sociopaths while trying to survive a viral apocalypse.
- Citizen Second Class is about poverty and starvation amid a climate catastrophe and greed.
- AFTER Life is about artificial intelligence weaponizing medical technology to take over the world.
- This Plague of Days is a zombie apocalypse (and other species evolving to take over the world).
- The Night Man is about PTSD, societal failure, family drama, war, poverty, and regret.
- Wallflower is a time travel novel about second chances after a lot of bad decisions.
- The Dimension War Series is a coming-of-age story amid a war story.
- Amid Mortal Words is about the loss of control and taking chances on a better future.
- Brooklyn in the Mean Time is about vengeance, absolution, and redemption.
- Robot Planet is about technological revolution and failure versus the human spirit.
- The Hit Man Series is about violence, vengeance, and escape amid a broken America.
- All Empires Fall is an anthology of five end-of-the-world stories and the common denominator is dealing with other people while everything falls apart.
Have you guessed the missing apocalypse yet?
Climate wars are a big deal, but I touched on that in Citizen Second Class. We could talk about the Misinformation War or new civil war scenarios, but Endemic has that covered. I dealt with extinction by killer asteroid in All Empires Fall. If you guessed the nuclear threat, Amid Mortal Words has that, too. You might have guessed the looming threat of antibiotic resistance. But, no, I’m thinking of something utterly devastating to the future of humanity. It’s close and almost no one ever talks about even beginning to deal with this extinction-level event.
The apocalypse that haunts me is this: In 60 years, Earth will have insufficient viable topsoil to grow 95% of all crops.
Read that last sentence again and ponder its significance. My kids will be alive for this. Coffee, bananas, and almonds will disappear first. Then everything else.
Sixty years and we aren’t dealing with the threat. There are no massive contingency plans. Unless helpful aliens are waiting to swoop in, no one is coming to rescue us. We’ll probably run out of soil before we run out of usable water, but it feels like it’s all a race to the end, doesn’t it?
So…call me Mr. Sunshine and read my books now, while you still can.
What happens when a pandemic never ends? Find out in Endemic.
Neurotic and nerdy, former book editor Ovid Fairweather is trapped in New York as everything falls apart.
All her life, she’s been a nail. To survive the viral apocalypse, she’ll have to become a hammer.
