The End of Days (Birth of the Gods)

The End of Days is the first book in the Birth of the Gods series.

The planet Mars is running out of breathable air. Since the asteroid strike, the government has built 127 gigantic plastic domes for the people to live in. Now, however, even the domes can't save them.

Thoth Strabo, a college history instructor, finally finds the perfect man. She has a winning lottery ticket to board the starship that will take her away from this dying planet, but her lover, Levant Amarna, draws a loser.

Thoth decides to stay on Mars with Levant and face the end together. She gives her ticket to one of her students, Naomi Nefera, so this teenage girl can escape her abusive parents.

The Secret Police arrested Aten Imhotep's son for protesting. Though Aten's position in the Mars Space Administration guarantees his family can board the starship, his son, Amun, has not been released.

As the family waits, the last shuttle to the starship prepares for launch.

John Bacon grew up along the shores of Lake Champlain in the Adirondacks of northern New York. At age seventeen he began to dream of becoming a writer. He started his college education at the University of New York in Albany and finished at Adrian College in southern Michigan. After graduate school at Wayne State University in Detroit, John taught English in Farmington, Michigan for 33 years. He started his writing career when he retired. He has three children and six grandchildren. John resides in Florida.