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Global Burning: A Post-Apocalyptic Novel
It’s the year 2045 and global warming has turned the world into a fireball. Nothing can survive outside and the last humans are confined to the underground. Recently, scientists have discovered the temperature has been rising at a much faster rate and in one month, the shields that protect the underground oxygen supply will be destroyed. All life will be exterminated! Follow Melissa Mercer, James Wilson, and the President of the New America as they try to save the human race from extinction.
287 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 10, 2017
About the author
Jonathan Sturak
17 books77 followersJonathan Sturak grew up in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. He is a Penn State University graduate and holds degrees in Computer Science and Film. He currently lives in Las Vegas where he uses the energy of the city to craft stories about life and the human condition. "The Place Called Home," Sturak's essay about Eastern European heritage in Northeast Pennsylvania, was featured on Glass Cases, associate literary agent Sarah LaPolla's pop culture blog at http://glasscasesblog.blogspot.com/20.... Sturak is also a contributing editor at http://NoirNation.com, the premier location for international crime fiction. His debut thriller novel "Clouded Rainbow" was published in December 2009 and has over 200,000 downloads on the Amazon Kindle. Sturak keeps updated information on his website at http://sturak.com
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January 21, 2017
Global Burning spends time with a variety of characters as they race against the clock to save the last underground colony of survivors in America from the fatal heat temperatures above ground. The focal figures are James Wilson, an everyman laborer from UVASHIELD, and one its brilliant engineers, Melissa Mercer. They are shown for both their dedication to saving the world and their devotion to their families. In tracking the rapidity of events, Sturak blends an impressive overview of scientific knowledge into the plot, and he formulates a futuristic world where the U.S. finds itself part of an interesting irony. The story delivers heart-pounding suspense and frightening revelations. Overall, Sturak’s fast-paced, apocalyptic novel places its focus on family, sacrifice, and the battle of good versus evil. His talent for crisp dialogue and tight prose keeps the pages moving, and the story keeps you gripped to the final scene.
March 11, 2019
Jonathan Sturak’s latest novel Global Burning is an intense action packed ride! It’s the year 2045 and the Earth has become a fiery oven. The unlivable conditions on the surface have forced humanity to flee underground. Still, the threat of the fires above loom as the rising temp begins to wear away the shielding protecting humanity’s oxygen. It falls to Melissa and James to find a solution to the ever ticking time bomb that’s humanity’s future. This is an edge of your seat novel through and through and I loved every second of Sturak’s thrill ride!
September 16, 2017
Something has happened relating to climate change and/or the sun's output that the surface of the Earth is virtually uninhabitable. The temperature runs to over 210 degrees. It seems that ultraviolet radiation comes through unblocked. Anyhow, anyone who goes out into that burns alive. Their bodies disintegrate into ash.
What's left of the American population (down from 240,000,000 to less than 100,000) lives underground. Even that does not guarantee survival, though, as breakdowns of equipment can result in temperature increases even there. It gets bad enough that it's decided that only a tiny fraction of those there will be allowed to go into a safe area while all the rest die.
It's up to a team of four guys to go out, get some steel from a bridge and use that to thicken the protective barrier. They have to face the heat, dangers while traveling and one totally unseen but very deadly problem.
The people left behind also have to deal with a major political problem in the government so it all makes for a very dark story.
The main problem I found was the ending. They meet certain other people who really shouldn't be there since they live a major distance away. It seems almost two convenient a solution, coming out of nowhere and not making a whole lot of sense.
What's left of the American population (down from 240,000,000 to less than 100,000) lives underground. Even that does not guarantee survival, though, as breakdowns of equipment can result in temperature increases even there. It gets bad enough that it's decided that only a tiny fraction of those there will be allowed to go into a safe area while all the rest die.
It's up to a team of four guys to go out, get some steel from a bridge and use that to thicken the protective barrier. They have to face the heat, dangers while traveling and one totally unseen but very deadly problem.
The people left behind also have to deal with a major political problem in the government so it all makes for a very dark story.
The main problem I found was the ending. They meet certain other people who really shouldn't be there since they live a major distance away. It seems almost two convenient a solution, coming out of nowhere and not making a whole lot of sense.
September 17, 2017
Love Cannot Be Extinguished
t moments sappy, but all in all a great read. All the conflict of man against man and man against nature and man against himself in a tightly packed plot with ordinary people who become extraordinary heroez
t moments sappy, but all in all a great read. All the conflict of man against man and man against nature and man against himself in a tightly packed plot with ordinary people who become extraordinary heroez
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