The Long Fire Season

A sixty-year romance set within the Anthropocene.

Mia and Sam meet as graduate students fighting a fire season that never ends. From the adrenaline of their youth to the “Quiet Earth” of their final years, they discover that the strongest shelter is made of promises kept.

When the biosphere collapses, Earth wakes up.

Dr. Sarah Chen knows the satellite data is lying. As ancient organisms wake beneath the ice, humanity faces a choice: extinction or a radical transformation into a planetary consciousness.

When James Holden takes his first job as Town Manager in the small community of Maplewood, he envisions a promising start to his career. But as groundwater vanishes, storms intensify, and wildfires threaten to consume the town, James must lead a divided community through escalating crises. From pioneering a vertical farm to relocation, James and the residents of Maplewood face impossible choices—and discover extraordinary resilience. A story of leadership, adaptation, and hope, The Maplewood Journals is a tale of a town’s survival in a world reshaped by biosphere decline and climate change.

In this last installment of the Corr Syl saga, the young rabbit warrior faces his greatest challenge yet. In a world where humans are just one of many sapient species, Corr Syl discovers an alien threat to all life on Earth. As part of the ancient Tsaeb civilization, Corr has dedicated his life to maintaining peace and ecological balance. But now, he faces challenges that will test his skills, his beliefs, and his very understanding of the universe.

At the terminal edge of the Holocene, we face a planetary crisis that technology cannot resolve. The Manifesto of the Initiation argues that the collapse of industrial civilization is not a catastrophic failure, but a necessary condition forcing humanity from pathological adolescence into mature sapience. The text shows how life survives not by preserving past ecosystems, but through radical simplification, success of resilient generalists, and the evolution of new complex ecosystems. Rather than futile maintenance efforts, Dr. Rogers advocates for “strategic abandonment” and an “Ark strategy” to preserve the seeds of knowledge. Prepare for a Quiet Earth home to brilliant complexity.

This book is a practical roadmap for communities to build resilience against potentially catastrophic climate effects. It presents a comprehensive and unflinching look at how communities can prepare for the most extreme climate change scenarios. Though much of the content can be found in “Silent Earth,” this book serves as a brief, focused “field guide” for planners and community leaders who need to know “what to do” without navigating the 500+ pages of Silent Earth or the 250+ pages of “Biosphere Collapse.” It presents ten adaptation strategies (e.g., Population, Water, Health, Governance) in a direct, actionable format that is more accessible for immediate implementation. It is a valuable resource for policymakers, community leaders, and anyone concerned with thriving in an uncertain climate future.

This handbook offers a blueprint for reshaping human systems to endure a collapsing environment. In Silent Earth: Adaptations for Life in a Devastated Biosphere, Garry Rogers begins with a stark truth: the chance to avert planetary collapse has slipped away, and full-scale restoration of Earth’s ecosystems is no longer possible. What follows is a stringent, clear-eyed manual for what comes next—a framework for human survival and the preservation of what remains of the living world.

Humanity has pushed the biosphere past the “point of no return”. The time for restoring nature as our grandparents knew it is over. We now face cascading tipping points, accelerating extinctions, and the transgression of six planetary boundaries. Our current piecemeal approaches are failing.

Biosphere Collapse: Causes and Solutions moves beyond despair to offer a clear-eyed analysis of the path forward. The book organizes the necessary transformations into a hierarchy of difficulty—from limiting resource extraction to shifting the foundational paradigms of civilization itself.