G. Michael Hopf

G. Michael Hopf is an American author born in 1970, known for post-apocalyptic and survivalist fiction. His best-known work is The New World series, beginning with The Long Road, which follows a family and community through the collapse of society and its long aftermath; the series has grown into companion sequences including The Van Zandt Chronicles and Tales from the New World, and connects to the collaborative Extinction Cycle series he has also contributed to. Hopf is closely associated with the line "Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times," a summary of generational-cycle theory that recurs as a guiding theme across his post-collapse fiction. His novels combine survivalist detail with family and community drama set against societal breakdown.