Consider Pipnonia

Upon This Rock #3

by David Marusek

Despite the alien’s best efforts, the so-called Little Nudge has failed, and the rogue planet Pipnonia is once again on a collision course with Earth. It’s time for the “Big Bump,” the alien’s last-ditch effort to save Earth and its inhabitants from total annihilation. But first it pressures Ranger Jace Kuliak to accompany Deut Prophecy, the Thirteenth Apostle, on her mission to Pipnonia to preach to its doomed population. Meanwhile, civil society is disintegrating around the world. Vera Tetlin, the popular governor of Alaska, and her family are on the run from agents of the Antichrist. And Doomsday Preppers from the Lower 48 are seeking refuge in the little ghost town of McHardy. Among them is a petty tyrant and racist who wants the town for himself. Things are heating up — literally.

375 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 18, 2021

About the author

Author David Marusek writes science fiction in a cabin in Fairbanks, Alaska. His work has appeared in Playboy, Nature, MIT Technology Review, Asimov’s, and other periodicals and anthologies and has been translated into ten languages. According to Publisher's Weekly, “Marusek's writing is ferociously smart, simultaneously horrific and funny, as he forces readers to stretch their imaginations and sympathies." His two novels and clutch of short stories have earned him numerous award nominations and have won the Theodore Sturgeon and Endeavour awards. “. . . Marusek could be the one sci-fi writer in a million with the potential to make an increasingly indifferent audience care about the genre again . . .”—New York Times Book Review. “Marusek is one of the relatively few contemporary sf writers who seems deeply responsive to the contemporary world”—Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. His current novel project, Camp Tribulation, is a tale of love, faith, and alien invasion set in the Alaskan bush.

Reviews

[Austin Allred · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got the first book in this series and loved it so much I went out and bought the other two.
This book was an exciting continuance of the series. I am excited for the fourth book to come out to continue the series.
If you enjoy Sci-Fi/Aliens this is an entertaining series.
Author does a great job.

[Mary Ann · Rating 2 out of 5]

I thought Marusek's "Counting Heads" was one of the most creative, interesting Sci Fi books in recent memory, and an all time favorite of mine. After book 1 of the "Upon This Rock", the series has been a big disappointment and not up to the quality of work I had expected from this author.