Researcher Ruth Goldman has developed a vaccine with the potential to inoculate the world's survivors against the nanotech plague that devastated humanity. But the fractured U.S. government will stop at nothing to keep it for themselves

First Earth was devastated by the machine plague, a runaway nanotechnology that devoured all warm-blooded organisms below altitudes of ten thousand feet. Then the remnants of humankind turned on one another, provoking a brief, furious world war and the invasion of North America. Now Russia and Chinese armies hold California against the battered forces of the U.S.-Canadian Alliance. Nanotech researcher Ruth Goldman and Cam Najarro — a former Army Ranger who helped her force an end to the war — have finally found some peace in a small, hidden village in the Rockies. But the arms race for weaponized nanotech has continued, and America is struck by a new contagion. Together with a small band of friends and rivals, Ruth and Cam must discover the source of the new plague — never suspecting that its creator is an old enemy they believe dead…

“The Frozen Sky” is a stand-alone novella by the international bestselling author of the Plague Year trilogy. Originally published in Writers of the Future 23, “The Frozen Sky” is a near-future sci fi thriller set beneath the ice of Jupiter’s sixth moon, Europa. This story has been translated into Czech, Estonian, Polish, Romanian and Turkish in magazines overseas. It also earned an honorable mention in Gardner Dozois’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction. This ebook includes two illustrations by Karel Zeman, whose artwork appeared in Pevnost magazine alongside the Czech translation of “The Frozen Sky.”