Ark Diaspora

Four years had passed since a massive asteroid collided with Earth and triggered a global environmental disaster that obliterated nearly all forms of life on the planet. The impact flexed the ocean floor, causing monumental tsunamis that demolished coastal cities throughout the world. The concussive force of the asteroid fractured Africa's Great Rift Valley, unleashing volcanoes that disgorged colossal rivers of lava into the steaming Indian Ocean. The 3,600-mile-long fissure...
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Four years had passed since a massive asteroid collided with Earth and triggered a global environmental disaster that obliterated nearly all forms of life on the planet. The impact flexed the ocean floor, causing monumental tsunamis that demolished coastal cities throughout the world. The concussive force of the asteroid fractured Africa's Great Rift Valley, unleashing volcanoes that disgorged colossal rivers of lava into the steaming Indian Ocean. The 3,600-mile-long fissure incessantly belched out a veil of ash and sulfuric smoke that girdled Earth and deflected sunlight, enhancing and extending the asteroid-induced pall of dust that caused a new ice age. Billions of people perished from starvation and hypothermia. In this forbidding world under an orange-tinged sky, a small group of survivors managed to scrape out an existence from limited resources at Halcyon on the coast of California, as the first book in this trilogy, Ark: Asteroid Impact, describes. Amid crushed buildings buried in the snow that covered much of the Earth's surface, the survivors doggedly salvaged remnants for food and shelter, and pieced together the technological means to begin exploring the wounded world to see what else - and who else - may remain. Their concern for humanity at large drove them to find and courageously rescue other isolated refugees who were facing starvation. The survivors included North American Aerospace Defense Command personnel marooned in an underground bunker atop a Colorado mountain peak. As they communicated by radio, a Russian missile installation intercepted the transmissions. Reverting to Soviet-era dictums, the Russians saw an opportunity to use thermonuclear weapons to assert world domination. On the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, the canyons of the Central California coast rumbled and the sky erupted in an excruciatingly brilliant flash of light that jarred the pathetically few American survivors from their sleep.