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A massive dark matter storm is hurtling toward Earth, defying all understanding of physics and threatening life as we know it. Dr. Elena Alvarez, a theoretical physicist thrust into an impossible mission, joins the crew of the International Space Station to confront the storm and uncover its secrets. A gripping tale of courage, discovery, and humanity's fragile place in the universe, Dark Horizon asks the ultimate question: Can we trust what we don't understand?

Book 1 of the Wakeful Wanderer's series. A captivating, fresh envisioning of a climate-changed future seen from two starkly different cultural perspectives, The Wakeful Wanderer's Guide to New New England & Beyond follows the paths of a runaway aristocrat, a Luddite tyrant, a spy seeking retribution, and a wandering historian unicycling north along the crumbling Boston Post Road. Winner of the Watty Award: Newcomer Category 2017 Marto Boxter is a plucky journalist with a head full of implants. He is planning a unicycle ride from his town of Reverside-on-Hudson through the climate-altered communities of New New England, posting his thoughts in real time for his interconnected followers via technological telepathy. Before he can go on tour, a wanderer named Helen arrives with secret information that throws Marto's placid world into turmoil. Miles to the south, Barnabas Yoniver IV, the leader of a Luddite town launches a plot to disrupt the life of all upgraded human beings and bring them back to the traditional economy of markets and governments. Meanwhile, rival Luddite families plot to prevent Barnabas from grabbing too much power for himself. This darkly humorous reflection of our changing world is an exploration of what it means to be human as our relationships with technology become increasingly intimate.

The world isn't ending. It's just becoming something we don't know how to survive.

'The Heat of the Glaciers' describes the adventures of a young man, John Hooverbart, born on Mars. He is a descendant of the humans that escaped from the Great Ice Age by establishing colonies on the Red Planet. John comes to the frozen Earth in the 26th century, as a member of the teams which are working on making it habitable again. It is a sci-fi writing by subject and context, but the story itself is focusing on human relations established in a hostile environment. It is about making new friends, help them on hard times, fight against nature severe conditions, and much more.

Book 2 of the Wakeful Wanderer's series. Book 1 is The Wakeful Wanderer's Guide to New New England & Beyond. That's a good place to start. It's available here. The America of our near-future is divided across socio-economic and technological-philosophical lines. The Traditionalists eschew any and all post-human technologies in favor of tangible materials. They uphold strict hierarchical structures based on religion, family, and leadership. They long for the return of the global markets wiped out by a world-shaking disaster called The Great Tide. The Interconnected stand in stark opposition to their ways, living without property, family, or religion, and modifying their bodies with the help of new and invasive technologies. They speak to each other wordlessly, employing a technological telepathy they call 'thexting' to communicate mind to mind, and embrace the gifting economy of Merit to maintain their post-scarcity lifestyles. Marto, the traveling Interconnected historian, has exiled himself to protect the ones he loves from his dark secret. In his absence, Helen, a runaway Traditionalist aristocrat, struggles to find her place among the Interconnected, unwilling to return to her cruel family. Reyleena, the former head of security in the Interconnected town of Reverside, has returned to a life of quiet solitude, broken occasionally by the impositions of The Other, an omnipresent AI, who will not leave her alone. Meanwhile, Barnabas, the Traditionalist leader of New Atlantic, fights to return to his township in the wake of an attack. Nora, his sister, remains in Reverside and must come to terms with her new life in captivity.

When hard times come, we all cry in the rain, we feel lonely, but next to us, others cry just like we do, and just as they do not see our tears, we do not notice theirs. Stories of people whose lives go unnoticed, those we don't think about and who think they are left to fend for themselves, stories about those which are in the backround of all books and films about disasters that might befold us. Difrent people from all walks of society, from the powerfull to those just living day by day - everyone has a story to tell. Maybe one of these stories will be yours.