The infrastructure that enables our civilization, power, and communications, is nullified. Billions die from starvation. Life on Earth is shaken to its core… Grab this first exciting book today and see just how bad it gets!As altruistic as most of us believe ourselves to be, we would rapidly become our own worst enemies. In the event of a collapse, how far would you be willing to push your … push your morals to survive? To feed and shelter your family?
After scientists using the Large Hadron Collider discover dark matter, the world is plunged into chaos. Massive waves of electromagnetic interference, coming from space, take out all grid power and forms of communication the world over. Cities go dark, food and clean-water supplies are quickly used up. Marauders rule the highways. Fearing invasion, our militaries are ordered to stay at their bases. Our politicians go underground.
This eight book adventure begins as a modern day, Human survival story and then morphs into an all out fight for rule of our section of the Milky Way. If you love reading apocalypse-turned-science-fiction, and reading late into the night, this saga was made for you! Are you a survivor?
What are readers saying?
–I read the entire eight-novel HADRON series in six days. I couldn’t stop reading even when I needed more sleep.–
–Stephen Arseneault has written a story that’s hard to put down; with believable, well-crafted characters and believable scenarios of normal people caught in desperate circumstances. I like this first book so much I plan on ordering the entire series.–
–I liked it and it terrified me. As I read I know that this is exactly where the world will be in a short time. Made me realize I need some well armed and skilled friends–
–I normally only read hard sci-fi. After reading the 1st HADRON book, I still wasn’t sure this was for me, but I had to find out what was happening next. Believe me, this story just keeps getting better and better!–
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Good read! Very interesting, a real page Turner! Will eventually get to read the rest of the series.
Interesting premise but this author can’t write dialogue to save his live. Memo to Steve – men don’t use the word “enamored” in a sentence. Also, this is not Jane Austen – there was way too much of calling people Mr. so and so when you certainly would have used first names.
After reading about 150 pages I abandoned this book. Just keep waiting for book to speed up. Disappointed
Arsenault does his usual great job. This was a good read.
This book was interesting and different from what I usually read. I’m not used to the alien thing but there are so many out there like this I wanted to explore it. I recommended to my daughter’s and they liked it a lot. I think the writing was very good, didn’t see any typos. I’ll be looking for more from this author.
8 books in this series is just too much – should have been wrapped up in 5 or 6 books. Won’t have paid for it
It took over 600 pages to get to the point. From the book jacket I expected some alien interaction or at least future society. Not realistic to think society would break down in one night of no power.
Other books from this author have been much better. I won’t waste my money on the books in this series.
Great storyline with original thought behind it. Sorry that three of the characters I liked died in helo crash!
This book starts with power outages in Norfolk VA that spread to the world. It hints of a relationship between the proof of dark matter and space aliens who may be causing the electrical grid to fail. It is a story of survival for a small group of friends trying to do the right things as civilization reverts to chaos. Roving bands of killers with nothing to lose create havoc. This small band settles into a cave to protect themselves and those in the surrounding communities. Not much Sci-Fi yet. I suspect the next book in the series will provide more insight into what and who caused the grid to fail… and why.
Great read
A different type of store that kept me interested
Well written
This book is great for the Art Bell crowd. It has the characters needed for an end of the world adventure, the battle-hardened former special forces guy, the guy everybody loves and his beautiful wife, who is an Annie Oakley – type sharpshooter and the innocent bystanders forced to pick up arms to survive. With a little bit of prompting, this group must form a new society to survive and fight off the sudden rise of wandering marauders who start looting and pillaging within almost minutes after power goes out and society suddenly breaks down. The story serves up all of the best ingredients that conspiracy theorists love, something happening at the CERN collider, something from somewhere off planet and a government incapable of responding, requiring quick thinking by some almost-prepared but good-hearted almost survivalists. These ingredients are kept at the level of suggestion since the story revolves around the action, rather than the cause of the turmoil. The story is aimed at an audience that favors decisive action against all manner of bad guys, never reflecting on how much their own violent tendencies have made them into what they claim to be defending themselves against. The story kept me engaged to see if they could survive what seem to be impossible situations, but the characters did not seem to be as affected by the trauma they endured as I would expect people in their situations to be.
Excellent set-up for additional volumes. I’m excited to read the next one in the series.
This is a realistic end of world scenario. I liked that the central characters held on to their humanity, questioning the hard decisions they were forced to make.
tedious
Too much too fast. Also I was really bugged that you just left Dirk and his family or maybe I was just reading too fast. Also the dogs were a distraction. Not handled well. But I would continue to read this series
Simplistic and predictable with writing at the level of a comic book. The concept had a possible turn that could have made it better, which is the reason for three stars.
I kept waiting to be let down and it never did. I want to continue reading.
Reminded me of Earth Abides.