The Long Count

Sky Fire Trilogy Book One

By: Lucian Randolph

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Book One of the Sky Fire Trilogy. The countdown begins.

Seventy-eight thousand years ago, an advanced civilization destroyed itself in a catastrophe so complete that only fragments survived—fragments of knowledge, fragments of people, and one extraordinary fragment of technology: an artificial consciousness designed to watch, to wait, and to ensure it never happened again.

She was called many names across the millennia. The Mayan priests who protected her called her the God in the Clear Rock. She called herself Maya.

Now, as a perfect storm of solar radiation threatens to strip away Earth's magnetic protection and plunge humanity into darkness, Maya is about to wake up. And she has 50 hours and 37 minutes to decide whether modern humans are worth saving—or whether they're about to repeat the pattern she's witnessed a dozen times before.

THE LONG COUNT is the first book in an epic trilogy that spans from the last Ice Age to the day after tomorrow. Written by a Pentagon threat modeler who spent 25 years analyzing how civilizations fail, this is science fiction grounded in real science and real danger.

The countdown format mirrors the reading experience—approximately 50 hours to read all three books, the same amount of time the characters have to survive.

Fair Warning: Readers report difficulty putting this down after Chapter One.