Free (Kindle) Tsunami by Crawford Kilian [SFnal Disaster Survival Technothriller]

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Tsunami: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller by US-born naturalized Canadian author Crawford Kilian (ISFDB, Wikipedia, SFE), a now-retired college professor and occasional Aurora Award nominee, is the 1st novel in his Icequake duology of retro speculative fiction survival technothrillers which may be standalones dealing with different disaster aftermath themes, this one set on a near-future (circa the 1980s) Earth damaged by solar flares leaving humans extra-vulnerable to UV radiation, taking place in San Francisco as people try to adjust to the increasingly broken infrastructure and altered remnants of civilization in the wake of a recent tsunami, in a world now much more difficult to survive, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press' Venture imprint.

This was originally published in 1983 by major Canadian imprint Douglas & McIntyre and was later reprinted by Bantam Books.

Currently free @ Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK and pretty much everywhere else Amazon sells worldwide, since this is being done via their KDP Select exclusive-or-else program)

Description
See the two sides of humanity that arise when disaster occurs: humanitarian and power-grabber.

Solar flares have been erupting with unusual violence and frequency on the surface of the sun. With the ozone reduced by at least fifty per cent, ultraviolet radiation was penetrating the atmosphere.

It burned into the cells of plants and animals; crops were withering, and livestock was going blind. Humans could scarcely venture outside in daylight without eye protection, and light-skinned people needed sunblock cream on exposed skin, or they would start to burn in less than a minute.

Existing in this new world are Don Kennard, his wife Kirstie, and Robert Anthony Allison, a big time movie director. Don is in a research submersible when a tsunami passes over him toward the west coast of the US, targeted directly at San Francisco's bay area, where Kirstie is working.

Patchy communication on shortwave radios gives San Francisco some time to get residents to higher ground. Power, which was already rationed, and water along with other necessities previously provided by the city are badly damaged and the people are just trying to survive.

Follow the Kennards and Allison as they try to figure out how to survive in the broken infrastructure of the disaster zone that has become the world.