Tales from the Silence

<p><strong><em>On August 4 2151 the world will end.</em></strong></p><p>It's been a long time coming: climate disasters brewing conflict conflict breeding chaos. But on that fateful day someone will set off the nukes. On August 4 2151 human civilization on Earth will fall silent.</p><p>There are survivors of course-and not just on Earth. There are scientists on the Jovian moons. Miners in the asteroid belt. Thriving colonies on the surface of Mars and above the clouds of Venus. Far more precarious ones on Mercury. When the silence falls across human space one thing is clear: Earth's space-born children are on their own. No more supplies are coming. No more orders. No more meddling. No more help.</p><p>Set in the universe of James Bow's new novel <em>The Sun Runners</em> <em>Tales from the Silence</em> is a gathering of award-winning science fiction fantasy and YA authors who explore the worlds the Earth left behind as well as the Earth itself as they struggle through Earth's new dark age.</p><p>Join James Bow Phoebe Barton Kate Blair Cameron Dixon Mark Richard Francis Jo Karaplis Kari Maaren Fiona Moore Ira Nayman Kate Orman and Jeff Szpirglas as they tell the stories of what happens after the end of the world.</p>