Supervolcano: Things Fall Apart

by Harry Turtledove

Overview

New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove brings his post-apocalyptic disaster trilogy to a startling conclusion...

An explosion of incalculable magnitude in Yellowstone Park propelled lava and ash across the landscape and into the atmosphere, forever altering the climate of the entire continent. Nothing grows from the tainted soil. Stalled and stilled machines function only as statuary.
 
People have been scraping by on the excess food and goods produced before the eruption. But supplies are running low. Natural resources are dwindling. And former police officer Colin Ferguson knows that time is running out for his family—and for humanity…
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451240552
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/02/2014
Series:	A Supervolcano Novel , #3
Pages:	464
Sales rank:	358,070
Product dimensions:	4.18(w) x 6.80(h) x 1.17(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Harry Turtledove, the New York Times bestselling author of The Guns of the South, Ruled Britannia, the Atlantis Trilogy (Opening Atlantis, The United States of Atlantis, Liberating Atlantis), and the Supervolcano Trilogy (Supervolcano: Eruption, Supervolcano: All Fall Down) has a PhD in Byzantine history. Nominated for the Nebula Award, he has won the Hugo, Sidewise, and John Esthen Cook Awards.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Praise for the Supervolcano Trilogy:

“[Turtledove] treats this massive disaster in a realistic fashion, creating a world that tries to limp along in the aftermath of the greatest blow nature has ever struck against modern man. The events of the story feel possible, in terms of both science and society.”—The Maine Edge

“I am enjoying this series. It walks the line between alternate history and near future ecothriller.”—SF Revu

“Series fans and readers who clamor for ‘disaster’ novels should enjoy this ongoing chronicle of a possible future.”—Library Journal

Editorial Reviews

Praise for the Supervolcano Trilogy:

“[Turtledove] treats this massive disaster in a realistic fashion, creating a world that tries to limp along in the aftermath of the greatest blow nature has ever struck against modern man. The events of the story feel possible, in terms of both science and society.”—The Maine Edge

“I am enjoying this series. It walks the line between alternate history and near future ecothriller.”—SF Revu

“Series fans and readers who clamor for ‘disaster’ novels should enjoy this ongoing chronicle of a possible future.”—Library Journal

From the Publisher

2013-12-08
Another go 'round with the Ferguson family, supervolcano survivors and utter literary ciphers. Turtledove (The War That Came Early: Coup d'Etat, 2013, etc.) returns for a third installment of his Supervolcano series, which finds the Ferguson clan, along with the rest of society, struggling to recover from the massive eruption that has wreaked all manner of climatological and economic havoc on the once mighty United States of America. Turtledove alternates scenes featuring Colin Ferguson, a gruff, cynical cop, and various members of his extended family to provide a panoramic view of post-eruption life; career woes, rampant inflation, the inconveniences of severe weather, reduced technological resources and relationship drama are the order of the day. Given the semiapocalyptic nature of Turtledove's setting, the dramatic stakes of his story remain curiously muted, if not outright absent. In fact, there is little story to speak of, as the narrative limps back and forth among its cast of bland, undeveloped characters dealing with the frustrations of power outages and the like. The lack of any sort of narrative momentum edges into perversity as the author pads his meandering tale with surreally protracted episodes of, say, a cat getting into painfully unfunny shenanigans or a geologist experimenting with a slide rule. Turtledove's premise is intriguing, but the prose style is gratingly folksy, turgid and weirdly out of touch despite copious references to Internet and texting conventions. A lifeless apocalyptic thriller/social drama.

Kirkus Reviews