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    John Barnes · standalone novel · 1994

    About ecological collapse.

    “A strike to destroy an illegal Arctic weapons cache has a catastrophic side effect.”

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    series · 3 books · 2010

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    “The resulting collapse triggers mass death, a crisis over presidential succession, and mysterious Moon-launched fusion strikes on Washington and Chicago, while a shadowy neofeudalist movement moves into the vacuum.”

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    series · 4 books · 2009

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