No Particular Urgency
The end of the world doesn't arrive all at once. And most people don't recognize it when it begins.
On a small Iowa farm, Tom Larkin has an ordinary list of things to do. A fence needs repairing. The mower needs a belt. There's a troublesome pump, groceries to buy, and a daughter beginning to think about college.
Nothing that can't wait until tomorrow.
Thousands of miles away, two spacecraft collide in orbit. An accident-or an attack? No one knows. But the collision damages the warning systems that nuclear powers depend on to distinguish threats from mistakes.
As governments take defensive measures, their actions begin looking increasingly aggressive to their adversaries. Communications falter. Military forces mobilize. Leaders struggle to maintain control over decisions that are moving faster than reliable information.
And beneath the escalating international crisis, something else is happening. Strange earthquakes, volcanic disturbances, and scientific observations that don't fit any familiar explanation are beginning to suggest that the greatest threat may have nothing to do with human conflict.
Back in Iowa, the Larkin family continues its ordinary life. There are chores to finish, children to raise, neighbors to help, and plans for a future that everyone assumes will arrive.
But what happens when tomorrow stops being a reasonable assumption?
No Particular Urgency is a character-driven apocalyptic science fiction novella that moves between the highest levels of global government and the everyday life of an American farm family.
A story about civilization's dependence on fragile systems, the consequences of uncertainty, and the ordinary human moments that matter most when time is running out.
From C.W. Haldon, author of the Adrian Vale novels and The Choir of Empty Suns series.
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