Vocabulary 10 Lesson 16-20 Review: Fill & Download for Free

Answered 5 March, 2020Yes, there is a genre of supervolcano fiction! It’s humourous the other answerer assumes the questioner betrayed her prejudices supposedly against volcanic potential, which wasn’t the case at all. Instead, he shows his unawareness of human commercial literary drive. Also, there is no way a large volcanic event at Yellowstone could happen next Tuesday as he said or next year. Yes, the Yellowstone supervolcano can wipe out humanity, but we'll have years of warningFear or perceived opportunity spawns art, some good and some bad. If spread by the internet, this is doubly so. Without going thorough the vetting of an established publishing house, much of the material out there is amateurish and poorly phrased, though well-intended.A Short History of the End of the WorldImagine your would-be famous author trying to find an unexploited niche, some theme to make their own by which to rise above the pack. Stephen King was ahead of the crowd when he wrote The Stand way back in 1978. Now there are scads of virus and pandemic fiction novels. Same with earthquakes, runaway AI, WWIII, the post apocalypse, psychic phenomenae, the paranormal, creepy humans and/or clowns, aliens, you name it. I’ve got it! The Yellowstone “Supervolcano!” I’m sorry to report, that has been mined, though mostly poorly. I count 36 fictional treatments, three of them movies of some sort. I will add more as I’m made aware of them. I bet I missed some; there’s a whole lot of self-publishing going on out there. Like the proliferation of poor Yellowstone tour guides, it’s easy to claim authorhood.Even if you write about a new challenge, it’s still necessary to have a good, believable story researched using the best knowledge regarding it, have compelling characters and to have been proofread well.To be fair, before the mid-teens, ash distribution models were inflated and before 2017 tomographic imaging had not yet revealed the 91% non-fluidic nature of the uppermost magma chamber. Jesse Lee O’Connor 李杰西's answer to What is going on with the Yellowstone volcano? Will it implode, explode or suddenly halt activity?But they should have known that was a crucial factor. No imminence equals no drama, which is where we are now, in the real world. In the 2005 teledrama “Supervolcano” magma chamber melt ratio was discussed but never measured when their supercomputer simulator VIRGIL could have done it easily. The hot spot cannot erupt to form a large caldera unless its upper chamber is more than 49% fluidic. Jesse Lee O’Connor 李杰西's answer to How much warning time would we likely have if the Yellowstone volcano was going to erupt? The least conservative, informed estimate is it will provide decades of warning; it cannot “go off tomorrow.” Yellowstone Supervolcano's Nasty Surprise: Only Decades To Prepare For An EruptionBefore the aughts, scientists knew Yellowstone had two calderas. Then, it was pieced together that its volcano created many, all across Idaho.A recurring error among writers is their having the Yellowstone hot spot going from quiescence to “super” eruption (VEI-8) in too short a time. Also, an almost prevalent confusion exists between slowly falling ash and sulphur dioxide gas in the stratosphere. Yes, ash can be an aerosol but the minute particles able to reduce temperature are different than what’s covering the cities and killing car engines.The biggest problem is authors making up their own Yellowstone by ignoring where locations are in relation to each other and even what landmarks are called. A gifted writer may gain readers by their craft but if they haven’t learned their subject they will lose an audience who does. To would-be future writers, please run your manuscript by an experienced local first? A lot of embarrassment might be avoided. If you don’t see the grading criteria below, I haven’t read it yet but will add a review after I read it.C- charactersG - geographyP - punctuationS - storyT - time from detection ‘till eruptionV - volcanic realism, reasonable/researched scienceBobby Akart 20 July, 2018 Yellowstone Hellfire 1 of 4.C - cliched, G -, P +, S-, T-2 years after drilling begun, V - confuses “seismic activity, ground uplift and subsidence and gas releases,” which are common to Yellowstone, with “telltale signs of a potential eruption.” Claims super eruption is “overdue.” There is a huge difference between magmatic and tectonic earthquakes that is missed here as in most offerings. Describes the “YVO” a new physical structure at West Thumb in 2018. “Gibbon’s River.” “Lake View Cafe,” “fly fishing along the shoreline across West Thumb,” “The largest most dangerous active volcano on the planet.” Dozens to hundreds of frogs in a marsh on Yellowstone Lake. Eruption caused by “Project Hydro” drilling and fluid injection. Passing Old Faithful on the way to elephant back mountain from West Thumb. Cabins at Grant Village. A 1,200 square foot ranger residence on the Firehole River near Sentinel Creek. A borehole 15 miles deep, in hot, plastic rock 3 12 miles deep. The entire mantle characterised as magma, cell coverage near Cave Falls. Old Faithful erupting every 30 minutes. ”Yellowstone’s three prior eruptions have been greater than or equal to Toba.” “A [any] Yellowstone eruption will be at least 1000 times more powerful than Mount St. Helens.“ I could go on…Likable characters with realistic sounding jargon but completely fantastic.Cora Buhlert Christmas After the End of the World 15 December, 2019. Pretty good little story. C+, G + there is no park in this story, P+, S+, T hard to say. Protagonist is 13 and was unaware of any advanced warning. V + except for only light ash near Billings. Story is so pleasant I have no complaints. The reason there’s no other people is they were ordered to to evacuate and the young characters didn’t know.Paul Curtain Gray Snow: A Post-Apocalyptic Thriller 6 February, 2019 Deeply psychological in painful detail yet believably so. C+, G+ played safe, no Yellowstone locations, P+, T- a day’s warning, V+ except for T complaint and ash in upper atmosphere instead of gas and fine particulate. Mostly quite enjoyable, except, as well-thought out and prepared as the story setup is, it feels very much like a typical disaster movie; these conflicting, baggage-laden principals are locked up in a small space to clash and to compromise in order to survive. The rawness and the finest of human spirit will be on display so that truth; good, bad and ugly, will be exposed and milked. Since I wrote that, all has turned much more realistically horrible. There is much to like here and much soap opera as well.Leonard J. DiSanza Seeds of Our Future 18 November, 2019 C+, G: bypassed by having no action in or near YNP, P+, S+, T?, V- relies upon humans inducing an eruption by nefarious yet undescribed methods. Claims climate change increases volcanism. Pleasant enough mystery though derivative and with likable characters. An enjoyable read.Jay J. Falconer and M. L. Banner Frozen World: Silo: Summers End 30 October, 2019 1 of 3 C+, G- could take place almost anywhere, nothing to do with YNP, P+, S+, T bypassed, never addressed, V-Yellowstone is never named but “The Event” 12 years previous include 91 volcanoes induced to erupt by humans - its hinted by nuclear devices. This is a fine action story with realistically complex characters and conflicts. Authors know their military hardware and culture well. However, the verbiage is tedious. Vocabulary is stilted to contrived. I would say no one talks like that but some do; highlights difficulty of writing realistic dialogue’s nuances that successful authors master. Multiple points of view and setups for future books drag out the fairly pedestrian post apocalyptic dystopian tale unnecessarily. Some continuity problems. If I enjoyed being inside the many characters’ minds more it would not seem so long and I’d eagerly read books 2 and 3 but I did not.John Fishwick and Lisa Wroble The Yellowstone Affair 10 April, 2017 C-trying far too hard, G-, P mostly + but could have been proofread better for stray unintended words, S-, T-(Projected, never occurs on page), V- “Ten thousand times Mt. St. Helens” would be VEI 9, which has never happened on Earth even though there are four more powerful eruptive sources on the planet. Stats from three most recent large eruptions are given with conclusion new one is “40,000 years overdue” with nothing to support that (2.1 MY/3=700,000 years, not 600,000.) Disagreement between Dr. Alvarez and YVO regarding multiple calderas? What’s to dispute about the patently obvious? (Volcanoes don’t erupt from calderas, they create them.) “70 feet of ash” on the closest cities? But from only 330 cu km ejected? Orion is a star? Arcturus is in Ursa Major? Comets influence volcanoes? “Geologist” says it can happen next year or in five years. This is a cloak and dagger on the lam tale which takes time to provide travelogue and cheerful geoscience education a la John McPhee along the way. All is put in motion by the proposal of the idea of overlapping calderas making an imminent catastrophic eruption. Though I’m sure they meant to say magma chambers, this is a commonly held and frequently broadcast fallacy completely unworthy of government cover up and murder. I can’t say if this book’s amateurishness or pretension is more offputting.Jean M. Grant Will Rise From Ashes 7 April, 2019 Author knows more about the human heart and autism than about volcanoes but the tradeoff is worth it. How refreshing is is to read a top notch story that shows restraint (especially volcanically), imperfect heroes and hope, above all. It’s especially gratifying to read the government isn't evil and order is maintained. Thoroughly enjoyable novel. C+, G+, P+, T-immediate, no warning, though protagonist believes the scientists knew but had “learned their lesson” from warning the public before Mt. St. Helens. V-”mankind’s largest volcano,” ash spread too slow, much more threat to health from ash than enflaming asthma, Will would have called for mask use much earlier than he did, “11 VEI 8 events” total in world with “3 from Yellowstone.” All is forgiven in light of this celebration of wonder from the perspective of an island of unconcern, of love.Jack Hunt The Year Without Summer 9 October, 2018 Steals title misleadingly of book by Nicholas P. Klingaman and William K Klingaman The Year Without Summer C+, G mostly+, P+, S+, T-much too quickly but caused by NASA drilling, “poking a hornets nest with a stick,” V-This very entertaining read is much better than most and researched better. He actually correctly locates landmarks in the park mostly where they are. There are odd lapses such as having campsites above Bridge Bay Marina wiped out by a wave whilst people by the marina escape unscathed. A truck driving on a hiking trail, electricity in a backcountry cabin and cell service in 50% of the park are huge errors. I admit that number is reported online but includes back country high terrain and only one bar service areas too. My experience is no more than 20% of front country, including poor service. Dinner served in Mammoth’s map room? There are more errors such as never any talk of magmatic earthquakes but only frequency. The magma chambers are correctly identified as being too solid to super erupt but supposedly knowledgable characters still fear “the caldera unzipping.” As enjoyable as the characters and action story are, it’s driven by recent Yellowstone science headlines of the past two years, almost all of them, which are turned to upend all the current reassurances of geoscientists on their heads because of human interference. Drilling near magma doesn’t quite work that way. But it sounds right, to some or many. Praise to author for not padding story to excess and showing restraint with his eruption. An economical, well-paced story.Linda Jacobs Rain of Fire 1 June, 2006C+, G+(best of all reviewed), P+, S+, T: one month but is realistic for type of eruption described, V + only author with apparent geologic background. Small errors like 1–10,000 YA cinder cone in Yellowstone forgiven for sake of overall astuteness. Excellent read. I should say more but actually most of what I say in other reviews are criticism. Brevity here means I found little displeasing and much to praise.H. O. Knight Life After Chocolate: The Full Novel (Yellowstone) 31 May, 2018 Life After Chocolate C+, G-there aren’t 1,000,000 people within 100 miles of YNP, P+, S+, T-3 weeks, V-only to set story in motion, to cut off food supplies. There’ve been young adult fiction novels regarding dystopian society, vampires, angels, zombies and seemingly every other fantastic scenario when just being a young adult is already drama enough without needing to actually be during the end of the world. However, these characters are so well written and the story was compelling enough to get me past skepticism; I enjoyed this book greatly, prompting my first review ever of a work on Amazon. Author doesn’t know Yellowstone volcanism and, unlike most I’ve reviewed here, doesn’t depend upon it failingly but instead writes successfully and compellingly of humanity and what is worth striving for.Larry Lavoy Caldera: A Yellowstone Park Thriller, 14 December, 2012. Extremely well-written book! C+, G- more than an hour from north gate to Lake, P+, S+, T-2 months, V-. I’m sad to downvote volcanology because this author is better than most. Reasons: “magma” on surface, only “seven supervolcanoes” on Earth, common confusion of water/steam venting with volcanic pressure venting, all destroyed within 600 miles, “600,000 years of pent up energy,” “end of humanity as we know it,” overdue by 300,000 years, Mallard Lake dome normal uplift 2 mm/year, Lava Creek eruption 500 x Mt. St. Helens, Yellowstone region called the Midwest, [only] more than 2,000 square miles in area, lake slanting wrong direction from uplift, “this all happened before [in human history]” — no, not lava eruptions, ““Roosevelt elk,” “nuclear winter,” ashfall ended too soon, engines were able to operate during ashfall, and, the new ice age predictions have been abandoned by Yellowstone observers since the time when this book was written. Exciting, realistic read.andEscaping Yellowstone, 17 March, 2018, a title which has already been used. Not a sequel to Caldera.Kennedy Layne Essential Beginnings (Surviving Ashes Book 1) 21 July, 2015 1 of 5. It got off to a rough start and proceeded to present love at the end of the world. Book has believable romantic conflict and especially good thought put into realistic prepping but everything else seems very contrived and cliche. C-, G-no YNP at all but counting on local landscape to shield them from ash without considering the umbrella cloud effect. Also, Burke in Texas would be better off there than in the Pacific Northwest. S- padded, cliched, full of overdescription, P+, T- atrocious: 2 days after a destabilising earthquake, V-doubly deplorable: “overdue for more than 40,000 years.” Talk of going north to Canada which would be the wrong direction in volcanic winter. Not well researched at all. Filament for firmament? Trying too hard. But, this is the most sensual supervolcano fiction I’ve yet seen! “This end of the world crap was getting real old,” said the protagonist to himself when it interrupted passion. But then, when I’m convinced it’s a turkey, I began to enjoy the military depth of knowledge and developing conflict until the final pages reinforced my initial qualms. Won’t be reading book two.Amazon.com: Eminent Domain: A First Contact Thriller (The Eminent Series Book 1) eBook: Lafferty, W E: Kindle Store 27 February, 2020 C+Solid, enjoyable, G-messed up: 50 miles from Tower to Lake, Devils Den located at north end of park as well as east end of lake, flying to Cody to go to Old Faithful, P+mostly: “Ground Loop Road?” Editing errors, “Lookout Point,” ”Old Faithful Lodge” and “Lake Lodge” named though Inn and Hotel described. Camping at West Thumb Geyser Basin. Protagonist says she’s flying to JH but goes to Cody, YVO a physical building at Old Faithful. S-exciting but extremely derivative, T-weeks, V-terrible, especially from a skilled writer who’s done some homework: “worlds largest supervolcano,” “100,000 years overdue,” 16,500,000/142=116,197. “640,000 years,” “Almost 700,000 years since the last eruption,“ “Rhyolite less viscous than basalt,” “caldera becoming a supereruption,” continental plates “move around on top of magma,” huge underground aquifers holding down magmatic pressure, threat to most life on planet, “extinction level event.” Ejecta blown into space to destroy satellites and the ISS! The same old story, only written better. Nice to read an explanation for how advanced evolution could come about in only 4.5 billion years, we had help. As a bonus, in the afterward we learn Mr. Lafferty really does know there’s no YVO building at Old Faithful and that some of his geophysics is a bit fanciful. Really? An interference pattern from 36 black holes created a vaccuum that froze the magma to permanently cap the hot spot? He says he researched the most up to date USGS knowledge. That’s good to know but his controlled-collapse caldera wouldn’t spare the continent the physical consequences of collapse, no matter the cause, such as pyroclasts, gas and ash. It’s fine he realizes he took liberties with a known place that it’s obvious he visited. Abut, a $300 round-trip flight ticket from Albuquerque to Jackson? A 4 Hour drive to Jackson hole airport from Old Faithful? Ridiculous. My point is if you’re going to ignore real life locations you might as well invent your own setting, except, that wouldn’t bring in the readership. Talented but commercial. “The structure of the chamber beneath this volcano is enormous and not well understood. I took advantage of this and created a structure for the super volcano that is based on a few facts but is exaggerated in many ways.” There you have it. (It’s much better known than he’s aware.)Darrell Maloney Fire in the Sky 1 of 8 17 February, 2017 Fire in the Sky (The Yellowstone Event, #1) C-cliched, G-Caldera field measurement stations far too close to gateway community, P+ all the more sad how disappointing this is as the author has skill, S-we’ve seen it all before, T-decades in development! Should be +, except it was only temperature and pressure rising without other necessary telltale markers which presumably will escalate too quickly in subsequent books, V-last eruption 300,000 years ago. Brown park service uniforms. Title has been used before but with more fire and more sky, both lacking in this story. But everything else we’ve seen too much of in other works and especially in second rate television shows. It’s not deja vu I sense but plagiarism. Do you remember the show where all the rural police are corrupt good ol’ boys railroading people passing through? And there’s a helpful bail officer who replaces his desk name plate as a new kind of public servant each time the protagonist has need? I think it was on Green Acres. Oh, and the government agents are covering up a conspiracy and murdering contract geologists to avoid a panic because a super eruption is much less messy to deal with after it occurs than before. Padded excessively to stretch one book out into eight, so far. It’s a shame, too, because it got off to such a good start with unexpected mysticism. But initially likable characters became wearying with forcibly clever dialogue that must have sounded better in author’s mind than what made it onto the printed page.Frank Montgomery The Wrath of Yellowstone 2 April, 2015 1 of 3Mike Mullin Ashfall 27 September, 2011 book 1 of 3.5. C+, G+, P+, S+, T - one month after large earthquake, V: Mullin avoids pitfall of not knowing geology by beginning his story immediately after eruption and far from it, also saves not knowing layout of Yellowstone. Too much ash in eastern Iowa; I’m ok with that, the rest of the book is done so well. Very enjoyable.K. R. Nilson The Yellowstone Traps 30 July, 2018 1 of ? C + but stereotypes, G - Knows park better than most, then ignores it. P + not many mistakes, S - hackneyed, T - 6 months after harmonic tremours, V - same old errors. Sounds good but full of holes. Clever title! Traps are large igneous provinces but this could also be a life or death trap for protagonists! That is, if the reader endures the laboured, bruised prose to learn who lives or doesn’t. One reader’s impressive vocabulary is another’s bludgeon: “Pandemonium erupted as passengers recoiled in fright at the careening female flyer slamming about the cabin interior on the heels of the explosive noises.“ Caldera “lurks under much of Yellowstone,” “largest non-marine volcanic structure on earth,” “erupts violently at intervals of between 6–800,000 years,” big, male moose roaming all over the park day and night, superheated rock “plasma” three miles down, 640,000 years, book of “Revelations,” reservoir of magma expanding; stretching and flowing for 1,000s of centuries, walking quietly when known grizzly is near, 1959 quake killed a dozen souls? Walking from nonexistent geological station on Plover Point to Grant Village in a day, “Yellowstone Lake Inn” and uphill Lodge destroyed by only 20 foot waves. Road from Grant to Lake destroyed so protagonist drove to Mammoth to get there. I couldn’t read any more.A. J. Powers As the Ash Fell 23 April, 2015 1 of 2. C+, G: bypassed! Like Mullin did. P+, S+, T? Story begins 7 years after, V-: no ash has fallen but is confused with suspended aerosols. Sincere and good natured. Too many small batteries and too much propane and ammunition available in a scarcity society but forgivable as its stipulated 80% population has died. Knows his guns! Protagonist self loads.John D Randall The Yellowstone Conundrum (Is This It?) (Volume 1) June 28, 2016 1 of 6 C+, G-, P-, S: includes ISIS, Ebola, flooding rivers and a Texas-Mexico drug war, T: out of nowhere, V: could not read past p. 39. In comments, chastises FEMA for patterning their emergency preparedness drills on his book and not giving him credit. I’m not making this up. Please see Preparing for “The Big One”S. M. Revolinski Ashes into Stardust 16 April, 2016E. S. Richards and Mike Kraus Eruption 13 September, 2019, Escaping Darkness book 1 of 6. Very good-hearted book earnestly written and researched but not set in the real world. C-generic. If this was a movie, their headshots would line one side of poster in boxes- “who will survive?” G-. P- mostly solid but strange word choices could have been edited better, S-padded, predictable. We’re being set up for multiple volumes. T-weeks of less than expected evidence. V-It turns out “Yellowstone’s small airport” has an extremely long runway, though I don’t think authors have seen it. If you’re flying to Texas from it, you would be far from the centre of the park. Oh, I get it, they must have meant Gardiner MT, not West Yellowstone. Geysers are frequently already “at their boiling point” independent of increased ground uplift in story. Most of the northern hemisphere would not be blanketed by inches of ash though much of the US west would be and by more than that. It would take much more than weeks of microquakes and a “feeling” the earth had risen over a year to bring about a large scale eruption; these things are measured instead of merely sworn by. Plane crashed 200 miles out on north edge of Helena Montana whose airport they approach by a gravel road! Characters walked out of ash cloud even though so close, wondering where other people were, all killed it’s speculated. An arm floats by on a river of lava which is jumped across. Winds blow ash into the stratosphere? This is obviously written by people unfamiliar with Yellowstone and with large volcanoes. Eruptions average seven weeks? Next year I expect a new post-apocalyptic series from this team.Katie Slivenski The Seismic Seven 5 June, 2018. Very well written book and enjoyable to read with excellent, realistic characters; powerful dramatic twist. Author avoids criticisms from Yellowstone locals by not describing surface geography at all after the Beartooth Highway! Sadly, beneath the ground, I think she’s made up a new location, one with coal mines, tiny steam pockets in granite and rock which defies limitations of drilling at high temperature. I recognize her drilling “pods” are a dramatic creation calling for the unique stature of the protagonists but it’s a fantasy. Tracks don’t need to fastened to borehole walls in order to place explosives deeply. Also, at depth with increased temperature above a magma chamber, boreholes cannot maintain their structural definition let alone be a survivable location for humans. Then there’s having internet service whether from cables or cell towers in the midst of an eruption, it’s almost impossible on a good day. C+, G-, P+, S+, T-proposed as humans-induced—-not possible, V-. Finally, no matter how much they love their humans, ferrets (Eurasian polecats) aren’t apt to run on command nor come when called; they are distracted by everything. It’s true they were used to run wires through airplane wings. But train them to turn lights on or off? That being said, the author accurately depicts them traveling in and about their owners hood. Additionally, the entire idea of releasing a little magmic pressure to unzip an entire chamber depends on mythically already pressurised, fluidic magma; the upper chamber is only 9% melted and the lower one only 2%. Only small pockets could erupt. But that’s more feasible than rapidly drilling a borehole kilometres to under an eruption site rapidly in the middle of a cataclysm, the utter impossible engineering melee the climax turns into…Heath Stallcup Caldera 14 December, 2017 1 of 8 Caldera Book 1. Co opts title already in use. C+Believable, conversational, except for constant glib quipping during end of world drama a la Bruce Willis, gets old quickly, G-does not know Yellowstone, P+, S-, T-no lava or ash but no warning either; long-buried virus that killed neanderthal’s re-emerges now, V-does not know volcanoes. The caldera makes you into a zombie. Eek. Even with the most inventive source of conflict imagined, an author still profits from knowing a little bit about the scene of his novel. A rock concert in the park, USFS trying to thin forests, replanting NPS land, hundreds of millions of dollars spent fighting the fires of ‘88, a campground with no indication if it’s for legal camping or not, “natural jacuzzi” adjoining pullout, “natural ampetheater” near visitor centre, geysers and hot springs releasing enough pressure to keep the volcano from erupting, “ Speeding, drug dealers, alcohol to minors, public intox, burglaries, public displays, one guy with a gun-shaped bubble blower that almost got shot, what more could go wrong tonight?“ Funny you should ask… Author knows police procedures and crafts realistic characters but banks too much, 8 books! on there being a receptive, ready-made audience for horror of loved ones turned zombie with attendant emotional conflict. Padded, tedious, I expect the flirtatious genetic scientists that open the book will be seen again in another volume but not by me.Edward Tellar The Would-Be Mystic: And the Yellowstone Premonition 8 January, 2019S. J. Tellor Yellowstone 1 February, 2019 Yellowstone Refreshingly restrained and nicely psychological. C+, G+ safe, no YNP locations, P+, S+, T+/- on one hand there were years of notice in which to construct bunkers. On the other hand, the precise day of eruption was known. V+ Mostly enjoyable.Nick Thacker, The Enigma Strain 1 of 12, 27 November, 2014Jeff Thomson Fall #1 Pressure series 23 June, 2018 Fall (Pressure Book 1) Thomson employs much greater skill with the English language than in most titles listed here. Unfortunately, he’s so aware of his facility that the book simply oozes smugness. C+ likable yet cliched, from whore with a heart of gold to corrupt televangelist to obtuse government official to humble war hero to hottie geologist to perky cougar mom of adult character. G+ overall good though there is no physical “Yellowstone Observatory” in the park, P+, S- belaboured. Formulaic. Padded in typical multi-book epic style. But then, his chapterisation and successful story building hits his stride most successfully; he knows he’s good. T- just a few days, even though accelerated by continent-spanning earthquakes. V- harmonic tremours well after the magma began flowing, only one magma chamber, only one magma conduit leading to two vents too far from each other, Krakatau listed as greater than Tambora, pH “skyrocketing” to acidic rather than falling. A bus on the park roads in winter. He’s done his homework but needed to be vetted by someone more knowledgeable. “Thomas knew this was what people wanted to hear, needed to hear….a place to point their fingers.” I truly appreciate his references and his vocabulary. But his characters’ minds are so slick in their glib rejoinders and inner monologues that he reads like a more polished version of Harry Turtledove; it gets old fairly quickly. “How do you rape a whore?“ “I sound like some B-movie tough guy.” “Dogs and cats living together.” Book got better toward end. Author bravely avoided cliche of protagonists escaping ground zero narrowly. I like most of the characters and care for them almost enough to read subsequent books. But it’s all a bit too much.Harry Turtledove Supervolcano Eruption 6 December, 2011 1 of 3 (A fourth is threatened) Kudos for painting post eruptive horror in breakdown of technology. That’s all the good I can say. Characters are very busy trying to pretend the world isn’t ending. C-unpleasant, G-, P+, S- excessively padded, T: 2 years, V -. Tedious to annoying.Layne Walker Escaping Yellowstone 4 March, 2012 1 of 3Tim Washburn Cataclism 25 October, 2016 CataclysmBill Wetterman Yellowstone: A Fall From Grace 24 September, 2015Campbell Paul Young Ash: Rise of the Republic 25 May, 2015“2012” Screenplay by Roland Emmerich and Harald Kloser 2008-2009, Columbia Pictures. Only four words: “The neutrinos have mutated!” Jesse Lee O’Connor 李杰西's answer to If the volcano in Yellowstone exploded, how far would the eruption extend? Would it be something like the movie 2012, or is that over-dramatic?“Super Eruption” 2011, SyFy presents. Utter drek. C-, G-main park roads are dirt, S-, T-two days, 30 days after earthquakes. V-“crystallising olivine to force magma into a crude state to prevent an eruption.” “Yellowstone hasn’t erupted for 148,000 years.” “Drain Yellowstone Lake into magma chamber to cool it down.” Old Faithful and Riverside Geyser going from water to lava eruption. One character is warned from the future which makes all the difference, but another isn't warned yet behaves differently for no reason than he did the first time around. “It seems science fiction can become science fact, sooner or later.” And helicopters fly just fine in heavy ashfall.“Supervolcano” Teledrama by Edward Canfor-Dumas and Julian Simpson 2003-2005, BBC. Jesse O’Connor's answer to What do you think of the 2005 movie made about the Yellowstone Supervolcano