Kingdoms of Sorrow

In the first five minutes, over a million people died.

In the months since then things have only gotten worse. Much, much worse.

Earth reels in the aftermath of a devastating solar flare—the effect of a savage solar storm that has resulted in a global disaster of unprecedented proportions. Most of the world is without electrical power or the means to restore it.

In the blink of an eye, the life we lead today became history: the infrastructures of modern American life ceased …