Paul Merrick had always lived a charmed life--right up until the moment when the Gulfstream he was in went down over the Sahara. Now his life has been transformed into a horrific, lurching disaster in which his very survival is in doubt. Because in the terrible new world of After the Crash, it's not only the desert that's trying to kill him.

Steven Mohan, Jr. has published scores of short stories in markets as diverse as INTERZONE, POLYPHONY, and PARADOX, as well as several DAW original anthologies. His short fiction has won honorable mention in THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION and THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR.