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Book 2 of The 7.9 Scenario: What happens to the rivers WHEN, not IF, a giant earthquake strikes on the New Madrid Fault beneath the Mississippi River? The story of two boat captains caught in that calamity and trying to save their passengers and crew in the sequel to Memphis 7.9.
Prologue
Saturday morning at 4:58 Central Daylight Time Chris Nelson’s computer workstation at the University of Memphis Seismic Laboratory received notice over the network of a 2.8 magnitude earthquake beneath the tiny town of Cooter in the southeast Missouri Bootheel. The system launched the program called Nelson, the foundation of Chris’s earthquake prediction theory.
In 1811 and 1812 a series of great earthquakes struck the New Madrid Fault. Log cabins, lean-tos and a few tents comprised the man-made structures along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, home to maybe 5,000 w | |  | | Memphis 7.9
Grad student Chris Nelson predicts an earthquake on the New Madrid Fault. His University advisor stresses no publicity. JQ cheats on seismic retrofits. Locals live in a state of denial. When the 7.9 earthquake fractures 70 miles of the fault, Memphis is destroyed. Casualties number in the hundreds of thousands. Across the central United States ninety-one million people in twenty-two states are at risk with over six million left homeless. The 7.9 Scenario is the worst natural catastrophe to ever strike the United States.
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Chris slept, sprawled across the old cot in the electronics room at the University of Memphis Seismic Center. All night he had fine-tuned his earthquake prediction model, the basis for his graduate thesis.
His snores harmonized with the hum of the fans. His left hand twitched in response to some unknown stimulus. The unruly blond hair on his large head matched his wrinkled khaki shirt and shorts. One sandal hung on his big toe, the other had already fallen to the concrete floor. He dreamt of his imminent fame, the praise he would receive as a true prophet, the discoverer | |  | | Was a Time When
A novel that asks, "What happens WHEN, not IF, resource depletion, population pressures, and climate change push the world of our grandchildren into a Great Collapse?
An expedition of young archeologists from the 31st century find the recorded memoirs of Sam Hardy, written in 2099. Hardy and his family are among the few who survived the Great Collapse of civilization in the 21st century. As the archeologists search for more artifacts from that period, they listen to Hardy's memoirs and compare their lives with those of the previous millennium. They hear of the time when all advanced technology broke down, pandemics and starvation decimated the population, vital fuel and mineral resources disappeared, and the human race almost became extinct.
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Snake Eyes and Boxcars
by Jay Dubya
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 Snake Eyes and Boxcars is a collection of fourteen sci-fi/paranormal stories. Two of the tales are written in the first person and the other twelve authored in the third person writing style. The newly published work is author Jay Dubya's twelfth sto |
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