TED BERNARD, author of Late-K Lunacy, beyond Late-K, Hope and Hard Times, and The Ecology of Hope (co-author), lives with his wife, Donna Lofgren, on a southern Ohio farm in the Shade River watershed.
Ten Stories explore a world beyond collapse when survivors must strive, without modern technology, to be hopeful and productive even as they are fallible.
Set in a midwestern American university town, fictional pre- and post-apocalyptic events lead up to the mid-2030s. Will climate change, the breakdown of myriad systems, and a global pandemic grip the world? Complexity science lends frightening authenticity as the story unfolds, while Bernard challenges readers with a jarring but not hopeless vision of tomorrow.