Darkout - Meltdown Darkout Series Volume 5 The sun is shining again and the solar system is reeling. After more than thirty years in the dark all that light and warmth should be welcome but meltdown is just one problem after another.

It is dark up there on the surface of the earth. It is cold, very cold. the ground is frozen, things can shatter at the slightest bump - people can shatter at the slightest bump. Connor had seen it happen. There are beetles that eat anything, absolutely anything. And there is an unexplained light showing far out across the valley from the Forge's vent. Of course Connor Winslow wants to go investigate.

Darkout - The Moon and Mars. Volume 3 in series. The miners on the Moon have supply, but no demand. the colony on Mars is suddenly no longer a project with earth as a safety net, it is the future, presuming they can make it through the present. As for those who have ventured beyond the edges of the universe, it is questionable the return trip will be worth it. What do you do with all those solar collector panels when the sun goes out?

Darkout JVIII is the second volume of the Darkout Series. The Jules Verne III, a deep sea facility at the bottom of the Mariana Trench was not meant to be self-contained. It did not bother the residents that the sun went out - it dark down there anyway. It did bother them that their umbilical to the surface, to emergency aid, coffee beans, and TP was gone. It was disconcerting when the refugees started showing up ..er down? They were under pressure - 8 tons per square inch of pressure - to survive.

Darkout Volume 1 In 2033 the sun blinked. Just like a light bulb going out. Eventually the sun did go out. Thirty years after the fact a small knot of survivors set out to widen their very narrow, need we say very cold, horizons. The stated goal is knowledge, communication, and trade. No matter how small your -world- gets there is always somebody with a hidden agenda. And, it would seen, a few -critters- you didn't expect to run into.