My Cousin's New Book!

Smashwords - Critical Mass - A book by Gunnar C. Garisson  It's finally here! Available as an e-book for $9.99. It'll likely be in paperpack by the summer.  Hopefully he'll be able to schedule a weekend book tour this summer and I can chauffeur him around to some local book stores!

Below is a description from the "Smashwords" website:
Critical Mass
Ebook By Gunnar C. Garisson
$9.99 Rating: Not yet rated.
Published: Mar. 24, 2011

This highly descriptive, character driven epic spans 93 light years, detailing the plight of a nomadic remnant human race, leaving a now uninhabitable Earth and colliding with an alien race in the binary system of the "Demon Sun," Algol. The future of their world is unravelling, and it will fall on one who has seen the past to keep them from repeating it as a 2000 year old Viking prophecy unfolds.

Extended Description
There has been much speculation and controversy as to what point it is that it will become irreversible, but the hard fact is that humans will overpopulate the planet to the point of sociological and economic critical mass. Somewhere around 2048, less than 40 years from now, mankind will reach a global population of nearly 11.5 billion people before things get so bad that the growth is predicted by sociologists to actually flat-line; the mortality rate finally equaling the birth rate.

The ensuing depression will give birth to the rampant practice of every desperate act man is capable of. While some innovative solutions had been found to address the environmental holocaust that is staring us in the face, the sociological condition is already nearly irreparable. With the middle class nearing extinction, the rich will need to find new ways to protect themselves from the poor, and a new kind of segregation will take place in most of the major cities of the world.