THE CALENDAR

By WM Gunn

Science Fiction

Pages: 302

Publication Date: April 3, 2025

Synopsis

Long-range monitors detect a massive rock plunging through space on a path toward Earth. Will it miss our planet, deliver a glancing blow, or destroy Mankind? And how will people react to an uncertain future? Or will they be told?

What if everything and everyone you cherish vanished in a heartbeat? What if you knew the very day your world would cease to exist? What if you could not save those you love? What if all your dreams and hopes of a brighter tomorrow would never be realized? How would you react if there was nothing you could do to delay it or prevent it? What would you do?

Prepare yourself for the upcoming end of all that is right and wrong. Prepare yourself for the fear and uncertainty of the unknown. Prepare to feel the tension grow and grow.

Prepare to read The Calendar.

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Review

What if you knew the world was ending? How would you spend your last days?

This new novel takes that question and answers it for multiple characters and world leaders. Each chapter spans a month, and there are small stories from new and existing characters from previous chapters. These characters bring humanity to the situation and the world. But that doesn’t mean that everyone repents and tries to make the last days better. There are still those who commit crimes, but to what end? Stealing isn’t going to help you when the world ends.

While this book is about what happens if the world is about to end, it is also about family, hope, love, and community. I enjoyed the various groups that came together to help the homeless or anyone in need with food and shelter. Even the owner, who expected to have a grand hotel in New Orleans. With the fate of the world, he turned it into a place where those who needed shelter could come and seek refuge.

Even in the face of death, some still don’t trust anyone and believe that everyone is out to get them. This happens with several leaders across the globe. It doesn’t matter that the scientists state that if these methods aren’t tried to divert the asteroid, the world will end; those leaders still refuse to help.

This book is a blend of dystopian and science fiction, and gave me pause, considering what I would do if in this situation. I appreciated how most of the characters were given a final summary of their last moments. It helped conclude the lives I became invested in throughout this novel.

Despite my heart hurting at the end of this book due to the situation, I give this book 5 paws up, and highly recommend it.

About the Author

WM Gunn is a native Texan who spent many years in the pharmaceutical industry in sales, sales management, and training and development. He is active in writing groups and volunteering with non-profit groups. He lives in his hometown in Texas with his high school sweetheart bride of many years. To date, he has written hundreds of short stories, three novellas, and two novels. Holmes, Moriarty, and the Monkeys and Chasing the Sun are two novellas released earlier in 2024. His debut full-length novel, The Two Terrors of Tulelake, was released in October 2024 as an e-book and as a paperback. The Calendar is his newest novel, available in April 2025 as an e-book and in paperback.

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