There’s also cannibalism and a rape before the novel comes to a believable ending “happy” is perhaps too much to ask for, but Alex does find a measure of stability. Debut novelist Mullin puts his characters through hell, depicting numerous deaths in detail (“Blam-Blam! His head pretty much burst, showering my legs with blood and bits of hair and skull and brain”). Soon he’s joined by another survivor, Darla Edmunds, with whom he falls in love. After seeing a neighbor kill three looters, Alex heads east through falling ash, dropping temperatures, and torrential storms, hoping to find his family. Fifteen-year-old Alex Halprin refused a family trip to visit relatives in Illinois, so he’s home alone in Iowa when the eruption occurs. Thanks for your continued support and all the questions you’ve emailed me.In this grim, postapocalyptic tale, the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, covering much of North America in volcanic ash and plunging the world into nuclear winter. One of those neighbors wants Speranta’s riches for itself. In terms of technology, standard of living, and food storage, they’re years ahead of all their much larger neighbors.

Alex and Darla are the proud parents of an 8-month-old girl named Gloria, after Darla’s mother.

With that said, here’s what ASHFALL #4 is about: It starts two years after SUNRISE ends. So the information I’m about to share may change. I outline my books before I write them, but while I’m writing I often change the outline. I know it’s hard to be patient, so thank you. But I’ll take as long as I need to to write a great book. I have until December 31st, 2017 to deliver the manuscript for ASHFALL #4. If you’ve got a great idea and don’t care if I use it (you won’t get paid anything), then email me! No, I don’t have a title for the fourth book yet. Now I think it will be a tetra-logy? Or a four-and-a-half-ology? Anyway, the series order will be: ASHFALL, (DARLA’S STORY is a novelette that can be read before or after ASHFALL), ASHEN WINTER, SUNRISE, and ASHFALL #4. One of the most common questions questions I get is this: what’s ASHFALL #4 about? Instead of typing a separate answer yet again, I’m going to share everything I’m currently willing to discuss here.įirst, yes, there will be a fourth full-length ASHFALL book.

Ashfall by Mike Mullin