Books with author Brian Crawford

A massive icequake and 27 scientists and explorers are stranded in Antarctica. A gritty take of survival.Residing in a station known as Shackleton, they are studying the seismic activity of the region. An eruption of the nearby volcano, Mount Erebus, soon sends quakes throughout the continent with devastating results. All radio communication has been disabled by the breakdown of the magnetic field. Evacuation is unlikely. No one knows whether they survived the icequake, and their station is now moving 2 kilometres north each day with the strong aftershocks. They are on their own, with limited food and resources. Do they stay put and risk being caught in the next series of icequakes and avalanches? Or do they pack up and trek over dangerous territories to the neighbouring station?Icequake is a gripping and prophetic sci-fi disaster novel, full of excitement and danger in every chapter.Crawford Kilian was born in New York in 1941. Raised in Los Angeles and Mexico City, he is a naturalized Canadian citizen living in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife, Alice, and daughters, Anna and Margaret. Formerly a technical writer-editor at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, he has taught English at Capilano College in North Vancouver since 1968. His writing background includes two children’s books (Wonders Inc. and The Last Vikings); critical articles on Charles Dickens and the Canadian writer James De Mille; several radio plays broadcast by the CBC; and Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia.

After a weeklong trip to Rwanda, an American youth group embarks on the experience of a lifetime: a trek up the Nyiragongo volcano in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. Now the volcano has been calm for years, and tourists once again brave its slopes. But as night falls and the trekkers take shelter at the craters rim, a low rumble announces that the volcano might not be so calm, after all. The Evil Wind is from Survive, an EPIC Press series.

A student in France, Eric unwittingly joins the French Resistance movement, printing counterpropaganda, sabotaging German vehicles, and supplying explosives to other Resistance fighters. Betrayed, Eric is arrested by the Gestapo who place him on a train bound for the infamous Himmelweg. Train to Nowhere is Book #5 from Prisoners of War, an EPIC Press series.

Join Will Carter for his freshman year, when he’ll search for sex, love, and acceptance anywhere he can find it. In the process, he’ll almost kill a trombone player, face off with his greatest nemesis, get caught up in a messy love triangle, suffer a lot of blood loss, narrowly escape death, run from the cops (not once, but twice), meet his match in the form of a curvy drill teamer, and surprise everyone, including himself.

On his sixteenth birthday, the Ætherian Rex Himmel learns that he is special--but no one will tell him why. Ordered by Ætheria's leader to join the militaristic Ætherian Cover Force, Rex soon finds himself involved in an investigation of several mysterious, frozen Cthonian bodies that have been discovered in Ætheria. Just as his team finds a reason for the bodies' appearance, Ætheria's power plant is destroyed in a violent attack from below. "The Shroud of Ætheria" is book #1 from "Vertical World," an EPIC Press series, a division of ABDO.

Sent by their command to the Ætherians' water-extraction site, a group of ten Cthonian scouts travels for days across the desert. Their mission: to find water for their drought-afflicted civilization. When a reconnaissance team joins them, the Cthonians send scouts up to Ætheria through an access pipe to request water while wells are being dug. But when two of the scouts' bodies plunge to the ground from above, the plan changes--and one enraged Cthonian commander strikes back. "The Veils of Cthonia" is book #2 from "Vertical World," an EPIC Press series, a division of ABDO.