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This essay was written on the evening of 27 August 2026, while King Harald lay very seriously ill at Rikshospitalet. He died peacefully at 06:35 the following morning. I have left the essay as it was written. I am writing this with tears running down my face. King Harald of Norway is very seriously ill, and I am not sure people outside Norway can fully understand what that means to us. The international news can report the facts correctly. Norway's 89-year-old King is in hosp

Painting by Erin E. Forsberg Ridley Scott’s adaptation of Peter Heller’s The Dog Stars arrives in cinemas at an interesting moment for post-apocalyptic fiction. Post-apocalyptic stories have never really gone away. We seem drawn to them whenever the world feels uncertain, perhaps because they strip life down to questions that are easier to see. Where will the next meal come from? Who can be trusted? What still works? Who do you protect? What are you prepared to do when there

Post-apocalyptic fiction can happen almost anywhere. Northern landscapes can offer resources and isolation, but they also demand familiarity with cold, distance and difficult terrain. A ruined city. A desert highway. An abandoned suburb. A bunker somewhere beyond the reach of everyone else. Move the same basic question north, however, and some of the assumptions begin to change. Northern Norway is cold, sparsely populated and separated by mountains, islands, fjords and long d

Maritime Survival After Collapse: Why Boats Matter in Northern Norway Author Tommy Forsberg aboard his sailboat on the Norwegian coast. When people imagine a modern society failing, they usually picture roads first. Cars abandoned on highways. Fuel stations empty. Bridges blocked. Towns cut off because trucks no longer arrive. That makes sense in most of the modern world. We have built our lives around roads. But along the coast of Northern Norway, there is another way of loo

The countdown to launch day is officially on, and today marks a major milestone: advance review copies (ARCs) for Solstorm: The Sky Went Wrong are officially available! I am looking for dedicated readers of post-apocalyptic survival fiction, disaster thrillers, and grounded speculative fiction to join my ARC team for my debut novel ahead of its release on September 1, 2026. About the Book The world did not end in fire. It simply stopped working. When a massive solar storm tea

Pencil illustration of me as a young boy sitting at the kitchen table with my grandfather while my grandmother cooks beside the wood stove. Illustration by Erin E. Forsberg. I grew up on the coast of Northern Norway, in a world where preparedness was not called preparedness. It was just life. One of my clearest childhood memories is my grandfather coming home after a long night at sea with heavy sacks full of fish. For a small boy, this was close to a royal procession. The do

The author, Tommy Forsberg A collapse story can easily become a fantasy of isolation. One capable man. One weapon. One bunker. One private answer to the end of the world. That kind of story has its place, but it was never what I wanted Solstorm to be. The North does not really allow that fantasy for long. Not honestly. A person might survive alone for a while. A few days. A season, perhaps, if they are skilled, lucky, and already prepared. But a hard northern life asks for to

Some stories enter a world through fire. This one enters through soil. The Roots Remember is a quiet companion piece to The Solstorm Saga, a novella set long after the collapse, when the noise of human civilization has faded and the Earth has begun the slow work of remembering what was left behind. It is not a warning in the ordinary sense. It is not an argument. It is not a lecture about nature or the future. It is something stranger and quieter than that: a story told from

The final essay in a four-part series, widening the lens from Earth to the larger possibility that intelligence, correction, and balance may be part of a much bigger pattern.

This article is part three of a four-part series. For the full sequence, read them in this order: 1. Why I Stopped Being Afraid of the Machine An accessible starting point, explaining the difference between today’s AI, AGI, and true ASI, and why the most dangerous period may be the unstable transition before the crossing. 2. The Last Intelligence: What a Real ASI Might Actually Do A deeper exploration of what an Earth-born superintelligence might learn from humanity, and why

This article is part two of a four-part series. For the full sequence, read them in this order: 1. Why I Stopped Being Afraid of the Machine An accessible starting point, explaining the difference between today’s AI, AGI, and true ASI, and why the most dangerous period may be the unstable transition before the crossing. 2. The Last Intelligence: What a Real ASI Might Actually Do A deeper exploration of what an Earth-born superintelligence might learn from humanity, and why th

The real AI danger may not lie in the machine itself, but in the unstable transition before true superintelligence changes the picture completely.

What Happens to Frozen Food During a Power Outage, and Why Shelf-Stable Storage Matters Shelf-stable food storage reduces dependence on electricity during long outages. The kitchen goes wrong before it goes dramatic. Not with sparks. Not with shouting. Not with the sky tearing open over the neighborhood. It goes wrong with silence. The hum is gone. The little background machinery of ordinary life has stepped aside, and the room feels wrong at once. The oven clock is black. Th

How a Solar Storm Could Shut Off Tap Water, With Timeline and Emergency Water Supplies Brian woke because the apartment sounded wrong. Not loud. That would have made sense. Sirens, shouting, a truck reversing in the alley with that smug electronic chirp city planners must have designed during a divorce. Boston had a thousand noises stitched into its bones, and even at three in the morning the place usually muttered to itself like an insomniac with bills to pay. Now it was qui

Would a solar storm change the weather, or just break the systems we rely on? The sky does not have to become fantasy to become frightening. When people hear solar storm, they often picture the sky going mad. Strange lightning. Violent weather. The atmosphere deciding it wants to be the main character. That is not what happens. A severe solar storm does not attack rain, wind, or cold directly. It strikes the invisible framework above us first: Earth's magnetic environment,

A dormant signal inside the Solstorm network has reactivated. We have released a short tactical mission for families. It runs inside your home in about 20 to 30 minutes, using a hallway, a kitchen, a computer, and a family group chat. Two or more operators and one control officer are required. If you want to run the mission, start here: https://www.solstormsaga.com/the-signal Works best for ages 12 and up. The Solstorm Saga™

A quiet northern harbor, where food, weather, and survival have always depended on more than shelves and supply chains. Painting by E. Forsberg It would begin with the supermarket. Not with empty shelves, not yet. With full ones. Walk into any large supermarket on an ordinary Tuesday and the abundance looks almost absurd. Towers of canned goods. Walls of refrigerated meat. Bread stacked in rows. Produce misted and gleaming under fluorescent light. It looks like a pantry. It i

The Solstorm Saga It would begin with the sky. In the far north, people might step outside to watch the aurora swell brighter than they have ever seen it. Phones would rise. Cameras would turn upward. For a few brief moments, it might look like wonder. That is what makes a real solar storm so unsettling. Not just the scale of it, but the way it unfolds. Not as one clean cinematic blow, but as a chain of failures moving through radio, navigation, satellites, power, fuel, commu

Most post-apocalyptic stories begin with impact, war, or immediate chaos. Solstorm begins differently. It begins with the sky turning strange above the world. With beauty first, then failure. With radios falling silent, navigation disappearing, and systems unraveling so fast that ordinary people barely understand what they are seeing until it is already too late. This short video introduces the heart of the story and the world behind it. A different kind of collapse story So

At a glance, Northern Norway can seem like one of the better places to be if modern systems begin to fail. The author and his wife prepared for the cold There are fewer people. Fewer roads. Fewer dense urban centers where panic can spread at speed. Along the Norwegian coast, distance still means something. So does weather. So does silence. Between mountain and sea lie villages, islands, ferry quays, fish farms, weather-beaten harbors, and scattered houses that have always liv