<p>It’s 2026 and catastrophe has struck from an unexpected source. The Alpha Centauri supernova has risen like a second sun rushing Earth toward its last summer. Floods fires starvation and disease paralyze the planet. In a blue aurora flash of gamma rays all microchips worldwide are destroyed leaving an already devastated Earth without communications transportation weaponry or medicine.</p> <p>The disaster sets three groups of survivors on separate quests. A militant cult seizes the opportunity to free their leader known as the Eye of God from the long-term coma to which a court sentenced her. Three cancer patients also search for a man in judicial sleep: the brilliant scientist—and monstrous criminal—who alone can continue the experimental treatment that keeps them alive. From a far greater distance come the survivors of the first manned Mars expedition struggling homeward to a world that has changed far beyond their darkest fears. And standing at the crossroads is one man US President Saul Steinmetz who faces a crucial decision that will affect the fate of his own people—and the world.<span rel='pastemarkerend' id='pastemarkerend41853'></span></p>