M.L. Banner's Blog

Will a Large Asteroid Hit Earth in 2032?

Depending on how you want to parse the statistics, the chances of a 40-to-70-meter asteroid hitting earth on December 22, 2032, are 162% higher than was predicted last month. But don’t head to the nearest cave yet. The actual chance of the asteroid, named 2024 YR4, hitting earth is now 3.1%, in other words, a […]

Prepper Paradise or Prepper Purgatory?

A former Army concrete and steel munitions bunker, within a prepper community of over a hundred like-minded residents, may sound like the perfect doomsday shelter or even a full-time prepper home. Better yet, right now you could pick up one of these 2000+ square foot, igloo-shaped structures buried under eight feet of earth for as […]

Discarded Carpet Shoes – America’s Existential Threat of a Lifetime

I started writing RESISTANCE over two years ago, beginning Chapter 1 by chronicling how Mexican cartel smugglers were bringing thousands of terrorists into our country in preparation for an invasion (described in HIGHWAY). These terrorists were not only ‘hidden in plain sight’ among the unchecked millions of other illegal migrants flooding our borders, but they […]

The “New” HIGHWAY Series

After writing about half of RESISTANCE, I got stuck. There were parts that just didn’t feel right. My characters reminded me that other pieces seemed to be missing in the first two books of the Highway Series which should have been there but weren’t. After doing a thorough reread of the series, I also found some […]

Resistance and the Importance of Armed Militias

Resistance is the next book in my Highway series, and it finds militias playing a prominent role. This had always been my plan, but the subject of militias is especially interesting today—six years after I first penned Highway—not only because...
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Get My Audiobooks for 80% Off Retail

They’re available everywhere (not just Audible), including direct! Amazon and their audiobook subsidiary, Audible have had a virtual monopoly on audiobook sales… at least they did, until now.  Creators of audiobook content, whether self-published authors or traditional publishers, had essentially one main...
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Millionaire’s Bunker – A rich prepper’s utopia or nightmare?

If you just happened to have a few million dollars lying around and wanted to prepare for the apocalypse (Ashfall or otherwise), would you be tempted to buy your spot in one of the world’s most luxurious bunkers? What if...
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“90% of all Americans die!”

This is not fiction. This was the real assessment from one of the many EMP Commission reports, guesstimating the number of US casualties if an EMP attack were to occur. “A high-altitude EMP blast could result in the shutdown of...
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The Problem With Gas-Powered Vehicles in a Post-Apocalyptic World

These PA stories have all missed the biggest reason why that abandoned car, will NOT be drivable (without a lot of help from the writers of that story)…Hint: It's not the battery!

Ashfall Apocalypse is here!

Get your masks, close your windows, lock your doors, and hunker down. You still won’t survive. This is a brand new series, set in today’s world, It’s a genuine what-if, fast-paced tale about survival. Enjoy! Ronald Ash was screwed.And so...
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