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John Michael Greer, author and host of the popular weekly peak oil blog, The Archdruid Report, returns with another collection of twelve tales from the post oil future. As Industrial civilization staggers beneath its myriad dysfunctions, ordinary people endure the long, slow descent that shapes the years of crisis. The old world passes away and a new age takes shape.

In this fourth addition to the popular After Oil anthology series, John Michael Greer, author and host of the weekly peak oil blog, The Archdruid Report, collects twelve new tales set in civilizations of the far future, a thousand years hence, in the world where the industrial age has faded into myth and legend.

In Merigan Tales: Stories from the World of Star’s Reach, author John Michael Greer brings together eight authors in a shared-world anthology of brand new tales inspired by his popular novel, Star’s Reach. These are stories of the far future in a world where fossil fuel-powered industrial civilization is a distant memory and new societies have emerged.

Centuries after the death of Earth, an ancient evil stirs on the colony world of Eridan. Six killing machines have lunged out of the northern barrens to annihilate an isolated community. The one clue to the motive behind the killings is locked within the shattered mind of the only survivor.As...

There Are Two Sides To Every Story Like every other grad student at Miskatonic University, Owen Merrill knows about the Great Old Ones, the nightmare beings out of ancient legend that H.P. Lovecraft unearthed from archaic texts and turned into icons of modern fantasy fiction. Then a chance...

While he has built a successful career in advertising, Richard Cassidy isn't happy. He feels like he isn't fulfilling his promise, his calling in life. With the pressure of a big presentation pressing down on him, Richard muses over the pointless direction he has been taking and then flees the office....

It is not a Merry Christmas for Benny Corelli. He is facing the wrath of a mob boss who wants him to pay his debt. Benny has refused and now his has been targeted by strong arm, Tony Costello—who also happens to be a childhood friend. With his life threatened, Benny tries to get away from Tony, running through the snowy streets on Christmas Eve. What will Benny do?

Writer Douglas Finch has achieved a new level of success as an author of bestselling books. His agent wants him to talk to Hollywood. A young woman named Abby Simpson moves in across the street and Douglas begins to rethink his solitary writer's life. Upon returning from a meeting in Los Angeles,...

Since 2006, author John Michael Greer has been sharing his perspectives on the fate of industrial civilization and more on his weekly blog, The Archdruid Report. His writing, both highly engaging and rooted in a depth of broad scholarship, has earned him thousands of readers who want to understand...

During its eleven year run, The Archdruid Report was one of the most controversial and widely cited blogs on the future of industrial society. This first volume of the collected essays from The Archdruid Report covers the years 2006 and 2007. In these essays, peak oil -- the peaking of world conventional...

Called to a remote cavern high in the Perelin Mountains, a young priest named Newell finds others awaiting his arrival. A ritual is about to take place and Newell is needed to enact the rite that will awaken the spirit of their dark queen, the sorceress Athara who was condemned to imprisonment long...

Wandering and adventure-loving warriors Donataldo and Kenroy receive a desperate request from a nobleman’s servant whose master is being held captive by a band of mercenaries. Drawn by the fight and a chance to get even with an enemy from the past, the Donataldo and Kenroy journey to the city of...

Battling along the walls of the besieged city of Hanbare alongside its soldiers, the warrior Fendreg of Senagra, leads a desperate standoff with the supernatural and mortal armies of Argrell, the witch-king of Devenar. Pushed to the limits when the city fall, Fendreg makes his way to the camps of the witch-king with one purpose in mind: the end his abominable reign.

It had seemed so simple, even fun, when they explained it: New York needed non-satellite-based relay towers. Commco sent me to find towns along the needed pathway, to offer to restore some of the boons of civilization in return for an agreement to build, power and guard the towers. After all, it had...