The Calm Act is born in the dust of Kansas.Fort Leavenworth Kansas is home to the elite US Army Command School. Major Emmett MacLaren and his roommates look forward to a placid year pursuing master's degrees in advanced military planning.But all is not well in Kansas. A Dust Bowl is brewing to rival the worst hard times of the twentieth century Depression. Rivers and aquifers are running dry. Race riots and refugees fill the news. And Command School is doing something strange this year with its curriculum. Its officer scholars will focus on war-gaming a single scenario, in utter secrecy - the collapse of the United States due to climate change.Emmett and his roommates are tasked with vetting the Calm Act, a plan to meet the climate change crisis with nation-wide martial law - and worse.Dust of Kansas is a prequel novelette in the Calm Act (End Game) series. It features military characters from End Game and its sequel, Project Reunion.
The Storms Before the CalmResourceful programmer Dee Baker is getting worried about climate change. Food prices are skyrocketing, the drought out west deepening, and the storms won't quit. When her intrusive Fortune 100 media employer forbids her to attend the escalating riots, Dee defies them to visit a rally, and see for herself what they're trying to hide.Civilly Disobedient is a short prequel to the Calm Act series.
Every ruin tells a storyAcross the vast expanse of space and time lie the remnants of civilizations that reached for the stars—and vanished.Silent cities carved into asteroids. Derelict megastructures drifting between galaxies. Temples buried beneath the red sands of dead worlds.This book contains 13 bold tales of humanity's encounters with these cosmic ruins. Think Indiana Jones meets Arthur C. Clarke.Follow determined xenoarchaeologists as they reconstruct the fall of an ancient alien civilization, or track seasoned salvage crews discovering terrible truths in abandoned waystations.These stories capture the thrill of discovery while grappling with the humbling reality of our place in the cosmos.Includes the following short stories:"e;Blood Halo"e; by M.G. Herron"e;Captain Thurgood and the Chamber of Whispers"e; by Benjamin Wallace"e;Perihelion"e; by Robert Appleton"e;Harbor"e; by Luke Mitchell [Novella]"e;Curios"e; by Ginger Booth"e;The Cathedral of the Unfinished God"e; by Pierino Gattei"e;What the Walls Remember"e; by Peter J. Foote"e;Sunrise"e; by James Pyles"e;Hole Cards"e; by Michael LaVoice"e;The City of Glass"e; by Jeannette Bedard"e;The Organ in the Ice"e; by D. C. Wynters"e;Ascension to Extinction"e; by Dawn Ross"e;Zero Sum Salvage"e; by Keyla Damaer