The Shattered Skies - John Birmingham

John Birmingham is the author of The Cruel Stars, Emergence , Resistance , Ascendance , After America , Without Warning , Final Impact , Designated Targets , Weapons of Choice , and other novels, as well as Leviathan , which won the National Award for Nonfiction at Australia's Adelaide Festival of the Arts, and the novella Stalin's Hammer: Rome . He has written for The Sydney Morning Herald , Rolling Stone , Penthouse , Playboy , and numerous other magazines. He lives at the beach with his wife, daughter, son, and two cats.