Do Not Go Gentle Book One: Discovery

You just discovered that in ten years the Earth is going to be ejected from the solar system by a passing black hole. What do you do?

Many questions, existential, technological, and human, are put into crisp focus in this first volume of an exploration of how humanity might respond to an improbable, but scientifically possible, event: the passage of a massive object through our solar neighborhood.

Astronomers Langston Conrad and Puneet Nagarajan discover evidence that a large black hole is approaching the solar system, previously undetected because it is heading almost directly towards us. The story follows these scientists, their families, other technologists, and a poor but determined Philippine rice farmer, as the world responds to the crisis in every way imaginable: chaos, resignation, disbelief, hedonism, and destruction, but also courage, hard work, cleverness, and the will to fight for survival whatever the odds.