What Would a Superflare Do To Civilization?

One of the scary things I learned in writing my thriller Patriarch Run is that our civilization has unwittingly evolved to become absolutely dependent on the power gird. It's not an exaggeration to say that if the grid went down today and didn't come back up again, most of us would die. If you're curious about how that can be,you can read what I've written about it here.

What's frightening about our dependence on widely-available, reliable electrical power is that there are several mechanisms...