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Zero Country
Zero Country is a Yellowstone-based dystopian thriller and the #3 installment in the To The North series. Caldera was also published in 2022.
Zero Country returns to Yellowstone in 2028, two and a half years following its devastating supereruption. The region is now called the Greater Yellowstone Restoration Project (GYRP).
Zeke Sanchez and Brett Fairbanks, a former U.S. Navy SEAL, investigate a series of puzzling and gruesome crimes. They are former soldiers and buddies from the Iraq War of years ago.
Monica and Katy (two volcanologists from Caldera) cluster with other scientists at the GYRP. They both have young children with them, and they both want out of Yellowstone due to the menacing developments there.
They live within the blasted landscape in a bleak campus of geodesic structures that resembles a lunar habitat.
A sketchy mining operation has also settled on the site, hoping to rake in millions off a rumored vein of rare-earth elements.
The themes this novel explores include surveillance and A.I. run amok and rough-shod over normal, well-meaning humans.
Bearing the responsibility for hard-labor and security details, "artificials," powered by unstable artificial-intelligence programs, roam the landscape, wreaking havoc and behaving increasingly hostile.
Is geologically unstable Yellowstone gearing up for another magmatic explosion? Katy and Monica scramble desperately to protect their children amidst the duel hazards of erupting volcanos, and increasingly hostile techno-apparatus.
Zero Country returns to Yellowstone in 2028, two and a half years following its devastating supereruption. The region is now called the Greater Yellowstone Restoration Project (GYRP).
Zeke Sanchez and Brett Fairbanks, a former U.S. Navy SEAL, investigate a series of puzzling and gruesome crimes. They are former soldiers and buddies from the Iraq War of years ago.
Monica and Katy (two volcanologists from Caldera) cluster with other scientists at the GYRP. They both have young children with them, and they both want out of Yellowstone due to the menacing developments there.
They live within the blasted landscape in a bleak campus of geodesic structures that resembles a lunar habitat.
A sketchy mining operation has also settled on the site, hoping to rake in millions off a rumored vein of rare-earth elements.
The themes this novel explores include surveillance and A.I. run amok and rough-shod over normal, well-meaning humans.
Bearing the responsibility for hard-labor and security details, "artificials," powered by unstable artificial-intelligence programs, roam the landscape, wreaking havoc and behaving increasingly hostile.
Is geologically unstable Yellowstone gearing up for another magmatic explosion? Katy and Monica scramble desperately to protect their children amidst the duel hazards of erupting volcanos, and increasingly hostile techno-apparatus.
327 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 27, 2022
About the author
Bruce W. Perry
45 books23 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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