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Caldera
This emotional, fast-paced sequel depicts the opening week of Yellowstone's catastrophic 2025 eruption, which sets into motion a gripping, intertwined survival adventure involving more than 10 different characters.
To The North began after the giant volcanic eruption had already taken place; Caldera depicts the days preceding and following this massive geological event. Caldera is a survival adventure and a dispersal drama. A natural cataclysm disperses our characters throughout the U.S. West in a fight for their lives; let's experience what happens to them.
Iraq vet and free-spirit survivalist Zeke Sanchez races his Harley through the Nevada desert on another loner vigil, until he decides to change course and rescue his daughter Tiva, who's a nurse in Idaho Falls, Idaho. During Zeke's journey, he runs afoul of noxious gases from the volcano, but also of a hornet's nest of predators who see societal collapse as an opportunity. Zeke realizes he must use his skills to protect his companions.
As soon as Yellowstone erupts, Kiatsu Garner bravely spirits her children along a benighted highway towards Oregon, in a race to save their lives. She derives strength from her father, Papa Saito, who has led a successful life in the U.S. after surviving the bombing of Nagasaki, as well as from the formidable internal resources she never knew she had.
Kiatsu's husband Brad desperately makes his way west from Chicago, in a fruitless attempt to locate and link up with his family, including the kids Jake and Abby.
The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory is manned by the scientists and researchers Slater, Monica, and Katy, who flee not only the lethal pyroclastic flows emanating from the erupting caldera, but their own clawing sense of guilt for failing to warn the region of the impending explosion (they had concluded that the volcano's recent activity represented a less profound hydrothermic event).
These protagonists' various journeys take them through Montana, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, and even down to Juarez where Aave, who Brad meets on the road, seeks to free a girlfriend from ransom-demanding kidnappers.
To The North began after the giant volcanic eruption had already taken place; Caldera depicts the days preceding and following this massive geological event. Caldera is a survival adventure and a dispersal drama. A natural cataclysm disperses our characters throughout the U.S. West in a fight for their lives; let's experience what happens to them.
Iraq vet and free-spirit survivalist Zeke Sanchez races his Harley through the Nevada desert on another loner vigil, until he decides to change course and rescue his daughter Tiva, who's a nurse in Idaho Falls, Idaho. During Zeke's journey, he runs afoul of noxious gases from the volcano, but also of a hornet's nest of predators who see societal collapse as an opportunity. Zeke realizes he must use his skills to protect his companions.
As soon as Yellowstone erupts, Kiatsu Garner bravely spirits her children along a benighted highway towards Oregon, in a race to save their lives. She derives strength from her father, Papa Saito, who has led a successful life in the U.S. after surviving the bombing of Nagasaki, as well as from the formidable internal resources she never knew she had.
Kiatsu's husband Brad desperately makes his way west from Chicago, in a fruitless attempt to locate and link up with his family, including the kids Jake and Abby.
The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory is manned by the scientists and researchers Slater, Monica, and Katy, who flee not only the lethal pyroclastic flows emanating from the erupting caldera, but their own clawing sense of guilt for failing to warn the region of the impending explosion (they had concluded that the volcano's recent activity represented a less profound hydrothermic event).
These protagonists' various journeys take them through Montana, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, and even down to Juarez where Aave, who Brad meets on the road, seeks to free a girlfriend from ransom-demanding kidnappers.
338 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 29, 2022
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About the author
Bruce W. Perry
45 books22 followersI'm a big fan of good stories, and sharing them. I've been reading a lot since I was a towheaded kid, growing up in a small town with a reading and writing tradition called Concord, Massachusetts. Our house was about a half mile from Walden Pond. That didn't make me a better writer by osmosis, but it darn sure made me a reader! I was the kid sitting under a tree, head buried in a book. I read every hardcover and paperback I could get my hands on.
A family friend gave me anthologies of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells when I was in the third grade. They encompassed the first adult narratives and science fiction I had read. They were hardcover, heavy, and I couldn't put them down, until I had to put them down, because they were heavy.
I tend to read and write in several genres, mostly science fiction/dystopian, adventure, thriller, and detective, but I've written stories that don't really fall into either of those categories, as in the war romance Accidental Exiles or the satire Lost Young Love.
In my work life I've been a trade newsletter writer and a software engineer, as well as a landscaper and a really bad waiter. I've also written non-fiction books on fitness and software, including Fitness For Geeks.
When I'm not writing, I'm a nomad. I love to travel. I prefer writing outside with a pen, legal pad, and a nice view.
A family friend gave me anthologies of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells when I was in the third grade. They encompassed the first adult narratives and science fiction I had read. They were hardcover, heavy, and I couldn't put them down, until I had to put them down, because they were heavy.
I tend to read and write in several genres, mostly science fiction/dystopian, adventure, thriller, and detective, but I've written stories that don't really fall into either of those categories, as in the war romance Accidental Exiles or the satire Lost Young Love.
In my work life I've been a trade newsletter writer and a software engineer, as well as a landscaper and a really bad waiter. I've also written non-fiction books on fitness and software, including Fitness For Geeks.
When I'm not writing, I'm a nomad. I love to travel. I prefer writing outside with a pen, legal pad, and a nice view.
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April 5, 2022
Like his other dystopian novels, Bruce Perry's Caldera is cinematic, his central character's are compelling - with a moral compass - and the dramatic tension riveting; impossible to put down until the last word. The scope of the book's geography takes the reader to the far reaches of the American West, and beyond into Mexico. Well researched, the reader learns something of volcanology (!) as well as the human heart.
June 5, 2022
Surprise ending
Great, plausible story line, and great character development. I love geology and living neat Mount St Helens and the other dormant volcanos in the PNW has piqued my volcano interest, as well. Fun, fun read with lots of action adventure, and a surprise ending to boot!
Great, plausible story line, and great character development. I love geology and living neat Mount St Helens and the other dormant volcanos in the PNW has piqued my volcano interest, as well. Fun, fun read with lots of action adventure, and a surprise ending to boot!
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