User:Mario balletta

Current Projects

"The Meltdown" by MJGB

A futuristic novel attempting to predict and chronicle social upheaval and chaos in Ameican society. This work begins during the breakdown of established institutions, economic collapse, and the beginning of anarchy in urban and suburban American society.

As the War on Terror expands to include Iran and Syria, the United States continually allied with Great Britain also begins conducting operations into Africa's troubled regions. As allied military operations become more difficult to sustain, support and manage due to logistics, financing and sabotage, the world's inability to maintain law and order becomes public, thus leading to an almost overnight explosion of rogue factions, armies, gangs, terrorist in one country after another, and public safety gradually disappears from view!

This book attempts to describe such events using a narrative, eyewtiness based approach. The characters are alive and as real and human as you or I.  We are able to internalize their daily struggles, obstacles and dangers they encounter in the pursuit of life and normalcy. We are brought face-to-face with real problems such as obtaining potable water, consuming disease free food, and stockpiling non-perishable supplies. Medicine and health care have dissolved into memory as survivors become nomads, sometimes banding together for protection.

While the events may appear to bear resemblances to popular films and novels, any implied or imagined similarity is purely coincidence. This work is completely original and also a compilation of real life experiences and extensive research.

This work is copyrighted my Mario Balletta. It will be published online for the general public.

Thank you in advance for your interest!

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