did not appear in the first volume but without warning they show up here. Can’t explain how or why without a plot spoiler (actually, I can’t really explain how or why PERIOD). It’s not the alt-rightish screed of some of these post-Event books ; it’s prepper stuff. Anyway, the first volume had the interesting and fairly well executed premise of a destructive solar event stranding an astronaut on the ISS with typical dystopian chaos back on earth. But this one takes stereotypes in character, speech,behavior and entropy just a bit too far. A bit irritating that the narrator does not distinguish between long and short A article. Bonus points for typically kind Canadians. How do you get a Canadian to apologize? Step on his foot.