Read the details of a scenario describing a possible Great Collapse of the 21st Century civilization: when all of advanced technology breaks down, when starvation and pandemics decimate the population, when vital fuel and mineral resources disappear, when the human race almost becomes extinct. Read about how there Was a Time When things were better. Author Sam Penny (aka the Prudent RVer) has written a series of disaster scenario novels telling of possible worlds facing humanity in the future. His first two novels of the 7.9 scenario, Memphis 7.9 (Revised) and Broken River, described the effects of an earthquake that could happen today with the magnitude of the seismic disaster that struck the New Madrid Fault Zone on December 16, 1811. His latest work tells of young archeologists from the 31st Century who find the recorded memoirs of Sam Hardy. Hardy and his family are among the few who survived the Great Collapse of civilization in the 21st Century. As the archeologists search for more artifacts from that period, they listen to Hardy's memoirs and compare their lives with those of the previous millenium. They hear of the time when all advanced technology broke down, pandemics and starvation decimated the population, vital fuel and mineral resources disappeared, and the human race almost became extinct. Hardy's memoirs are based upon one possible scenario of what might happen to the world we live in. It is a cautionary tale, a warning of what could be the fate of the human race if it does not awaken from its self-destructive behavior that is destroying the environment and begin to think rationally about how to create a new world that can survive the trials ahead of us. The book is an invitation to join the discussion of how to survive in the evolving world of the 21st Century and how to make our future better than how bad it could be.

The captains of two boats on the Mississippi River try to bring their ships and passengers to safety after experiencing the worst earthquake to strike the central United States in nearly two hundred years. Their experiences tell of what we can expect along our great waterways when a giant earthquake once again wracks our land. In Book 1, titled Memphis 7.9, you read of the destruction throughout the eastern United States, and especially in the city of Memphis, when a giant earthquake strikes on the New Madrid Fault.

Feel the power of the earth as the New Madrid Fault once again fractures, just like it did 200 years ago, but today with 32,000,000 people at risk. This is the story of some who survive the worst catastrophe that could strike the central United States and destroy 10% of the nation's economy.