Earth’s Last Hope by Mary L. Schmidt

Multi-volume, multi-genre author Mary L. Schmidt introduces us to her latest sci-fi book, “Earth’s Last Hope”:
What if you live in Denver metro, and in one day, you must find or make a bunker, filled with non-perishable food, water, and cold weather clothing to last for ten years, and manage to prevent volcanic ash particles getting into the air you breathe, when Yellowstone's caldera erupts with eruption lasting more than a year, and it starts erupting during an atmospheric river of snow and four day blizzard of up to twenty feet of snow, thrusting you into a volcanic winter of up to ten or more years, leaving behind an un-inhabitable, barren, and desolate Earth?
What would you do?

Amazing story! It could appear in worldwide headlines anytime. The author thoroughly explored the ramifications of these very possible disasters. The aid that saves the remnant of Americans is out of this world! There is a high-plausibility factor in this story.
I watched Mt. St. Helens erupt for days in southwest Washington state in May 1980. That was only one volcano! The cities downwind were buried under several feet of ash. The ash cloud circled the Earth several times.
The story gets 5 stars from me! Since I am picky about certain things, I award 4.1 stars for those things, a composite score of 4.6 for “Earth’s Last Hope.”

You can buy this book:
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I have reviewed two other books by Mary: 
https://www.wordrefiner.com/book-reviews/her-alibi 
https://www.wordrefiner.com/book-reviews/when-angels-fly 
 
Tags: sci-fi, science fiction, climate, weather, volcano, eruption, Yellowstone, UFO, UAP, aliens
 
Copyright © 2026 Mark L. Schultz, except for the author’s introduction