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The Calm Act #4
Tsunami Wake
The tsunami was only the beginning.
The fledgling nation of Hudson, born in the wreckage of New York and New Jersey, is only five months old when catastrophe strikes. Hudson is better prepared than most super-states of the ex-USA. But they aren’t ready for this.
Tech whisperer Dee Baker barely escapes the tsunami herself. Her media empire is in tatters over censorship fights, while her home town sinks beneath the waves. As bad news piles upon scandal upon disaster, Dee struggles to deliver public support. Because Hudson is going to need it. Nations will fall in the tsunami’s wake. It’s up to Dee to make sure hers isn’t one of them.
Tsunami Wake is book 4 in the Calm Act climate change apocalypse series, which began with End Game.
The fledgling nation of Hudson, born in the wreckage of New York and New Jersey, is only five months old when catastrophe strikes. Hudson is better prepared than most super-states of the ex-USA. But they aren’t ready for this.
Tech whisperer Dee Baker barely escapes the tsunami herself. Her media empire is in tatters over censorship fights, while her home town sinks beneath the waves. As bad news piles upon scandal upon disaster, Dee struggles to deliver public support. Because Hudson is going to need it. Nations will fall in the tsunami’s wake. It’s up to Dee to make sure hers isn’t one of them.
Tsunami Wake is book 4 in the Calm Act climate change apocalypse series, which began with End Game.
- GenresDystopia
394 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 3, 2019
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Ginger Booth
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After 14 years on walkabout to New York, Colorado, Texas and Tokyo, I swam home to spawn in shoreline Connecticut. A recovering computer programmer, I’ve worked in the seismic industry, semiconductor electronics, academic research in biology and environmental science, and online teaching simulators.
I live alone, and enjoy swimming, walking, and crafts. I grow vegetables indoors, until my crops spill outside and down the driveway. I read voraciously, curious about everything, especially how things work.
After 14 years on walkabout to New York, Colorado, Texas and Tokyo, I swam home to spawn in shoreline Connecticut. A recovering computer programmer, I’ve worked in the seismic industry, semiconductor electronics, academic research in biology and environmental science, and online teaching simulators.
I live alone, and enjoy swimming, walking, and crafts. I grow vegetables indoors, until my crops spill outside and down the driveway. I read voraciously, curious about everything, especially how things work.
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April 6, 2018
Wow!
What an amazing read! The mind that conceived this amazing story belongs to somebody I would want to know! This story has great depth, rich detail, wonderful, fully drawn characters, and believability. That last should be frightening, a War College scenario brought to life and played for real. Overpopulation, climate change, and bringing together the remaining population, all of this played out with relationships developing and growing as people struggle to unite and find a new normal. Loved every word!
What an amazing read! The mind that conceived this amazing story belongs to somebody I would want to know! This story has great depth, rich detail, wonderful, fully drawn characters, and believability. That last should be frightening, a War College scenario brought to life and played for real. Overpopulation, climate change, and bringing together the remaining population, all of this played out with relationships developing and growing as people struggle to unite and find a new normal. Loved every word!
February 27, 2017
Love this series!
I just binge read the entire series (so far) in two days.
The scenario is frighteningly possible and complex and is handled with amazing attention to detail. The story and the characters pull you into the story and hold you there. This book appeals to the intelligence as well as the emotions. I'll be watching for every new release from this wonderfully talented author.
I just binge read the entire series (so far) in two days.
The scenario is frighteningly possible and complex and is handled with amazing attention to detail. The story and the characters pull you into the story and hold you there. This book appeals to the intelligence as well as the emotions. I'll be watching for every new release from this wonderfully talented author.
January 10, 2019
Final Act
A fitting finale for the Calm Act series. I feel as if I know Dee and Emmett personally. I wish the story continued.
A fitting finale for the Calm Act series. I feel as if I know Dee and Emmett personally. I wish the story continued.
March 20, 2017
I just finished book 4 of the Calm Act Series, _Tsunami Wake_, and I’m ready to start book 5 but--sadly--there is not yet a book 5. Hopefully, Ms. Booth is working on it so that I and this story can go forward.
I love the series and the array of interesting and diverse characters. This novel, like its predecessors, tells the story of a near-term future fraught with the challenges and dangers of dramatic climate change. The danger is nothing less than that the human species will die out, and the probability of such a dark ending is even higher than most of the population understands.
Enter Dee Baker, technical whiz, journalist of the realm, and a sometimes reluctant leader in the new power structure. She’s back in action as the manager of PR News and as an important asset to the newly formed government of the nation of Hudson, a state fashioned out from former US states of New York, New Jersey, and all the rest north to the border, minus Maine, which has seceded and joined the nation of Canada.
[spoiler alert]
Dee is a hands-on heroine, and, in Chapter One, she must survive a massive tsunami that catches her and her friend Cam out on a barrier island of Long Island. They race the water to high ground and are caught in the killing waves only to be saved by a giant oak tree. They survive, of course, so that there can be a Chapter Two, but much of the east coastline does not as the level of the sea increases 10’. Was this sudden change another example of the treacherous nature of our changing climate or were nefarious motivations of men involved?
Dee is a key resource in the new nation, working to provide the populace with the information they need to survive. But she is equally responsible for censoring the news, if the truth is too depressing or too dangerous to be known. This moral calculation does not always sit well with our heroine but she does what she has to do.
It does not sit well with all of the citizenry either. She has been asked to contribute to public morale in a time of our future when it would be easy to give into cynicism. Sometimes optimism has to be purchased with a shaded truth. Not everyone appreciates her balancing act, and a disgruntled job seeker and underground newspaper label her the “Queen of Censorship” and this causes a riot in the city of Boston, where she is visiting. Only the intervention of her fiancé, Colonel McLaren, and the Army of Hudson save her from serious injury or death.
It is easy to understand that the situation is complex and that a variety of dramatic possibilities exist. Ms. Booth has painted a picture of a darkening future but has drawn a cast of characters that are resilient and that seek positive action in the face of a dire situation, notwithstanding the need for occasional moral recalculations.
I love the series and the array of interesting and diverse characters. This novel, like its predecessors, tells the story of a near-term future fraught with the challenges and dangers of dramatic climate change. The danger is nothing less than that the human species will die out, and the probability of such a dark ending is even higher than most of the population understands.
Enter Dee Baker, technical whiz, journalist of the realm, and a sometimes reluctant leader in the new power structure. She’s back in action as the manager of PR News and as an important asset to the newly formed government of the nation of Hudson, a state fashioned out from former US states of New York, New Jersey, and all the rest north to the border, minus Maine, which has seceded and joined the nation of Canada.
[spoiler alert]
Dee is a hands-on heroine, and, in Chapter One, she must survive a massive tsunami that catches her and her friend Cam out on a barrier island of Long Island. They race the water to high ground and are caught in the killing waves only to be saved by a giant oak tree. They survive, of course, so that there can be a Chapter Two, but much of the east coastline does not as the level of the sea increases 10’. Was this sudden change another example of the treacherous nature of our changing climate or were nefarious motivations of men involved?
Dee is a key resource in the new nation, working to provide the populace with the information they need to survive. But she is equally responsible for censoring the news, if the truth is too depressing or too dangerous to be known. This moral calculation does not always sit well with our heroine but she does what she has to do.
It does not sit well with all of the citizenry either. She has been asked to contribute to public morale in a time of our future when it would be easy to give into cynicism. Sometimes optimism has to be purchased with a shaded truth. Not everyone appreciates her balancing act, and a disgruntled job seeker and underground newspaper label her the “Queen of Censorship” and this causes a riot in the city of Boston, where she is visiting. Only the intervention of her fiancé, Colonel McLaren, and the Army of Hudson save her from serious injury or death.
It is easy to understand that the situation is complex and that a variety of dramatic possibilities exist. Ms. Booth has painted a picture of a darkening future but has drawn a cast of characters that are resilient and that seek positive action in the face of a dire situation, notwithstanding the need for occasional moral recalculations.
August 12, 2019
This would be a five if there weren't errors piling up. The author has done an amazing job. No doubt of that. She is obviously an intelligent and educated person. There are some things that bug me though. In the last book there was a conversation where a friend told Dee that the Amish wouldn't wan to talk to her and Amish women are shunned for talking to the English. I'm not a fan of Amish in any sense. I actively dislike them. Its a little stronger than 'dislike.' I was part of one of the protests to get their horrific puppy mills in Lancaster shut down and Amish is pretty much synonymous with "animal cruelty." They are masters of it. They have the whole process of using, abusing, and discarding animals down to a science.
Anyway, that bit about the Amish in the book was not true. They talk to the English all the time. I've been in several Amish communities and no one is shunned for speaking to outsiders. Amish like money. They have businesses. They are good at making money. that entire segment on Amish was inaccurate, even organic subsistence farming. that is not what the Amish do. Amish use GMOs and pesticides, and tractors. All the communities in this area have at least one person with a degree in genetics and must have 3 or 4. The Amish know all about genetics, breeding for specific traits, and so on. The tractors have steel wheels instead of tires. No idea why.
I'm also getting tired of the military thing. It really is grating. Its time for martial law to go and Miss Dee to stop making excuses for censors and the lack f rights in the former US. The population is treated like sheep except for a few main characters. I hope Americans would never tolerate that.
Anyway, that bit about the Amish in the book was not true. They talk to the English all the time. I've been in several Amish communities and no one is shunned for speaking to outsiders. Amish like money. They have businesses. They are good at making money. that entire segment on Amish was inaccurate, even organic subsistence farming. that is not what the Amish do. Amish use GMOs and pesticides, and tractors. All the communities in this area have at least one person with a degree in genetics and must have 3 or 4. The Amish know all about genetics, breeding for specific traits, and so on. The tractors have steel wheels instead of tires. No idea why.
I'm also getting tired of the military thing. It really is grating. Its time for martial law to go and Miss Dee to stop making excuses for censors and the lack f rights in the former US. The population is treated like sheep except for a few main characters. I hope Americans would never tolerate that.
June 6, 2021
Sorry to see this series stop for now.
I hope there are more books to come for Dee Baker, Emmett, Cam and the rest of the crew. I really enjoy this series and would hate to see it end completely. This book started with a bang! Or a near drowning by Tsunami, no less. This event is felt along the entire Eastern seaboard of what was once known as the USA. Weather patterns change, there are new sea levels and a major cleanup of what was a devastating event. Dee and Emmett are still struggling to keep their relationship strong although they are kept apart by distance and duty. Their expected wedding seems like a pipe dream.
I hope there are more books to come for Dee Baker, Emmett, Cam and the rest of the crew. I really enjoy this series and would hate to see it end completely. This book started with a bang! Or a near drowning by Tsunami, no less. This event is felt along the entire Eastern seaboard of what was once known as the USA. Weather patterns change, there are new sea levels and a major cleanup of what was a devastating event. Dee and Emmett are still struggling to keep their relationship strong although they are kept apart by distance and duty. Their expected wedding seems like a pipe dream.
September 19, 2019
It has been a long road from bucking the system to being part of the system for Dee, if only she can figure out what she should do!
Knowing this may be Dee and Emmett 's final storyline made for bittersweet reading. I will admit getting swept up into the majesty of the wedding as well as enjoying all the pomp and pageantry of dress uniforms and glitzy gown.
A book that not only wraps up but leaves room for more.
Knowing this may be Dee and Emmett 's final storyline made for bittersweet reading. I will admit getting swept up into the majesty of the wedding as well as enjoying all the pomp and pageantry of dress uniforms and glitzy gown.
A book that not only wraps up but leaves room for more.
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January 31, 2020
Brilliant depiction of probable scorched earth apocalypse
Your Calm Act series depicted a very probable scorched earth scenario with federal government eliminations of a billion+ unsupportable population plus severe martial law is conceivable. The concept rebuilding of superstate cooperative governments is BRILLIANT and places Calm Act above the dystopian 'Mad Max' books. There might be hope after Trump after all !
Your Calm Act series depicted a very probable scorched earth scenario with federal government eliminations of a billion+ unsupportable population plus severe martial law is conceivable. The concept rebuilding of superstate cooperative governments is BRILLIANT and places Calm Act above the dystopian 'Mad Max' books. There might be hope after Trump after all !
July 15, 2018
A good finish to Dee’s story
Well, maybe not a finish so much as an end. I’d started to get bogged down and feel the despair too much earlier in the series but loved it anyway. This book doubled down on the trouble but still managed to keep me hooked and find at least some hope for the characters. I’m looking forward to the follow-on series!
Well, maybe not a finish so much as an end. I’d started to get bogged down and feel the despair too much earlier in the series but loved it anyway. This book doubled down on the trouble but still managed to keep me hooked and find at least some hope for the characters. I’m looking forward to the follow-on series!
March 12, 2024
Turbulent,trying times continue to change and challenge our heroes. Although the plot of this book wasn’t as intricate as the previous ones, it still held my interest on every page. And a happy ending (for the moment) was the last thing I expected.
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