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Permafrost
While the Earth sleeps …
Three degrees north of the Arctic Circle, something lies dormant in the permafrost. It has been that way for two hundred thousand years and would have remained that way, but the permafrost is melting.
It’s an opportunity two scientists can’t resist. What they find is unexpected, and they quickly concoct a bold plan to harness their discovery. But when techno-hackers break into a research lab, their plan goes awry, unleashing a catastrophic chain of events.
The past and present suddenly collide and the unthinkable becomes reality. It’s the start of a nightmare no one can wake from …
CR Wahl’s polymathy has free rein in Permafrost, taking the reader from a frozen tundra into a frightening future that cuts shockingly close to home.
Three degrees north of the Arctic Circle, something lies dormant in the permafrost. It has been that way for two hundred thousand years and would have remained that way, but the permafrost is melting.
It’s an opportunity two scientists can’t resist. What they find is unexpected, and they quickly concoct a bold plan to harness their discovery. But when techno-hackers break into a research lab, their plan goes awry, unleashing a catastrophic chain of events.
The past and present suddenly collide and the unthinkable becomes reality. It’s the start of a nightmare no one can wake from …
CR Wahl’s polymathy has free rein in Permafrost, taking the reader from a frozen tundra into a frightening future that cuts shockingly close to home.
441 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 23, 2026
About the author
C.R. Wahl
4 books18 followersC. R. Wahl (Pen name) lives in Minnesota and makes a habit of not becoming bored.
With a PhD in physics, C R knows his way around a lab. He’s published papers in peer-reviewed journals on topics ranging from quantum gauge anomalies to neural networks and has over 35 patents in six different fields.
CR has a fondness for out-of-the-way places and the untraveled road. Many of the scenes in Waking Iceman were derived from firsthand experiences: Ancient ruins in South America, steamy Brazilian rain forests, coral blue South Pacific islands, and high-altitude mountains.
He’s hiked across countries and climbed peaks from Africa to the Andes, and all places in between. Provided there’s not a world shortage of coffee, C R plans to continue working on his next novel...Stay tuned!
With a PhD in physics, C R knows his way around a lab. He’s published papers in peer-reviewed journals on topics ranging from quantum gauge anomalies to neural networks and has over 35 patents in six different fields.
CR has a fondness for out-of-the-way places and the untraveled road. Many of the scenes in Waking Iceman were derived from firsthand experiences: Ancient ruins in South America, steamy Brazilian rain forests, coral blue South Pacific islands, and high-altitude mountains.
He’s hiked across countries and climbed peaks from Africa to the Andes, and all places in between. Provided there’s not a world shortage of coffee, C R plans to continue working on his next novel...Stay tuned!
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June 4, 2026
To much plastic
Nice story but it kinda ended with a whimper. The resolution was letting nature take its course distributing the MER fungus. Seems like that would have taken years. Another point that I wondered about was when the E60 microbe was consuming plastic should it not have gotten larger as it ate?
Nice story but it kinda ended with a whimper. The resolution was letting nature take its course distributing the MER fungus. Seems like that would have taken years. Another point that I wondered about was when the E60 microbe was consuming plastic should it not have gotten larger as it ate?
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