An Interview with Christopher Brooks, Author of “The Gertrude Threshold”
Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?
When our Sun grows suddenly, and irreversibly accelerates, it begins to fry Earth into a cinder. Humanity survives by migrating underground. The Gertrude Threshold follows three generations of a single family on the day that scientists had calculated to be the final one on Earth. The three main characters, and the rest of the underground survivors, have no future, only the past, and less than 24 hours to reclaim the years the Warming stole from them while Earth begins to fall apart around them.
How did you come to […]
Decay is the second book in the Tesla Evolution series by Mark Lingane, following on from the first book, 
A thousand years in the future, we follow Sebastian, a young teenager living in the quiet and rural remains of a pocket of civilization after an ancient nuclear apocalypse. As a strange sickness takes his father and consumes his mother, he is left in servitude of his selfish aunt and cut off from the brilliant mind of a teacher, sharing with him a love of near-legendary clockwork and steam power of the past. His luck changes – not all for the better – on finding an envelope addressed to him in a locked jewelry box, and a group of black-suited […]
“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, says the epigraph for J.M. Erickson’s novel Future Prometheus II, explaining J.M. Erickson’s trilogy title, Future Prometheus.
