by John Ringo
First published 2005
In the 41st century, humans live for three centuries in a post-scarcity paradise where work has become obsolete and prosperity flows endlessly. This golden age shatters when the global energy infrastructure suddenly collapses without warning. Society crashes from technological heights to primitive conditions overnight. The comfortable citizens who knew only abundance must now survive in a world stripped of its power sources. As resources become scarce, competing factions emerge from the ruins of civilization. They wage a conflict unlike any previous human war, employing technologies and tactics that dwarf the brutality of earlier eras. The collapse transforms not just how people live, but how they fight and die. John Ringo explores what happens when humanity's greatest achievements become the foundation for its most devastating warfare.
Genres: science-fiction, adventure, action, apocalyptic
Vibes: gritty, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: resource-scarcity, societal-collapse, technological-warfare
Period: 41st Century
767 pages · Paperback · Wilhelm Heyne Verlag