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We thought the war was over.
We were wrong.

They decimated Earth during the Long Winter. Now the grid has returned, and they won’t stop until the human race is extinct.

On a ruined world, humanity’s last survivors fight against impossible odds. In their darkest hour, they discover a new hope for survival. But it comes at an unthinkable price, with consequences that will change everything.

“This is apocalyptic sci-fi at its best.”
—Daily Mail

Note: The Solar War is the second book in The Long Winter trilogy (which began with Winter World).

Filled with real science and shocking twists readers have come to love in the series, The Solar War will keep you up late into the night turning the pages—and leave you pondering the revelations long after it’s over.

Selected Praise For A.G. Riddle

“...reads like a superior collaboration between Dan Brown and Michael Crichton.”
—The Guardian on Pandemic

“I finished the book fast because I just couldn’t wait...”
—WIRED GeekDad on Departure

“Riddle... keep(s) the focus on his characters... rather than the technological marvels”
—Publisher’s Weekly on Departure

“Well-constructed and tightly-wound as a fine Swiss watch—DEPARTURE has non-stop action, an engaging plot and, of course, wheels within wheels.”
—Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlander

An Extended Look at The Solar War

After the Long Winter, Emma Matthews and James Sinclair hoped life would get back to normal. They’ve settled down in Camp Seven and welcomed their first child, a daughter. And they have waited and watched the sky for any signs of the grid’s return.

When NASA discovers that several asteroids have broken from the Kuiper Belt and are headed for Earth, James instantly realizes the truth: the grid is back. And this battle will be one to the very end.

As he and his team prepare for humanity’s last stand in space and on the ground, Emma makes a discovery closer to home, one that will change life for her and James once again.

With war raging around them, Emma and James fight to keep their family alive. In the cold darkness, humanity splinters. New alliances emerge. At every turn, Emma and James face new dangers—and question whom to trust.

Just when it seems that all hope is lost, James uncovers what may be the key to humanity’s survival. But it comes with enormous risks. To implement his plan, he and Emma will have to survive the grid and another, even more deadly enemy. One thing is certain: their gambit will change the future of the human race forever.

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A.G. Riddle’s debut novel, The Atlantis Gene, became a global phenomenon, topping best seller charts in the US and abroad. Every year, Amazon compiles a list of the top 100 bestselling Kindle eBooks of the year (by total sales volume). The Atlantis Gene has made Amazon’s annual Kindle bestseller list an unprecedented five years in a row—every year since the book’s release (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017). Since then, Riddle has released eight more novels, selling millions of copies in two dozen languages. His books feature a unique mix of science, history, and suspense that has delighted fans of Michael Crichton, Dan Brown, Clive Cussler, and James Rollins and continues to sell year after year. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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A.G. Riddle spent ten years starting and running internet companies before retiring to focus on his true passion: writing fiction. He lives in North Carolina. Visit www.agriddle.com. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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'This is apocalyptic sci-fi at its best. Plot and character are masterfully woven together and the action - which is anything but frozen - sling-shots from stage to stage like an intergalactic spaceship' Daily Mail. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Ian Crane

The End is Just the Beginning

Reviewed in Australia on 18 July 2019

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A.G Riddle is back and in fine form, proving why he is one of the top science fiction and thriller writers to watch!

Not unlike his previous trilogy The Solar War suffers from being overly long and at times drags as it tries to justify itself in the middle of two stories.

However, Riddle succeeds in humanizing every moment of the narrative, making this second entry almost more of a drama/Saga than anything else.
Where Winter World was disjointed between Space and Earth- Polarising the story in half as almost two differant things, book 2 is almost 100% set on Earth and builds on many of the previously established relationships and tensions.
While Riddle has a good grasp of space,science and other worlds, the most contentious part of this book is the conciet of the "big bad" and AI/Intelligences in general. This was the weakest part of the ending to some of his previous books and the omnipotent snarky Matrix like AI just doesn't stick. Perhaps because it reminded me of the woeful Ultron in the Marvel movies but: "Conservation of energy" just doesn't fly and feels like a lazy explanation for a highly evolved and dangerous enemy.
Why Arthur doesn't just snap the neck of every living being left on Earth and move on makes no sense, his superior physical body at odds with his actions and motivations. But then some of the actions early on the book could have been solved much more simply given such an advanced artifical intelligence exists within the narrative

Riddle does seem to dance around these issues and assumes this is just how things are while also effortlessly plowing ahead with the creation and design of incredible advances in human technology.

The Solar War is a sweeping novel that continues well past its conclusion and Riddle is quick to address there is another Novella on the way.
In truth the last 10% of the book on Eos could have been the start of the third story splitting these two stories more evenly but as it is, the need for another book is self evident as there are too many unanswered questions.

The Solar War is a wonderful personal journey about the last days of mankind and their will survive and evolve past their own limitations.

For those who like a strong dose of existencialism

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Richard

Worth reading, but a bit irritating in places.

Reviewed in Australia on 13 April 2020

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The story is quite well written with no irritating typos or grammatical non-sense. The book kept my interest until the end although it also become more irritating as I ready on.

I found it annoying the way the parents kept lying to the children about the future. Making promises you cannot keep is generally a bad idea, at least in my view, but failing to keep them and getting no blow-back on it is unrealistic, even in a work of fiction. If I promise my son something, he tends to get pretty irate if I fail to deliver. A lot of the secrecy/lies from the governing clique to the plebs also seemed unnecessary and unlikely to work in practise either, at least in the absence of a well functioning authoritarian police state, which the author doesn’t indicate exists.

I am not a climatologist, so perhaps the author is correct in how the earth would respond to a reduction in sunlight - but I doubt it. Precipitation requires energy, less energy means less world-wide precipitation, so I think it is doubtful there would be heavy and ongoing snowfall through-out a world starved on incoming sunlight. Similarly, for a tidally locked world such as Eos, I suspect almost all the moisture would end up locked up on the frozen side, unless perhaps the “dark side” of the planet was mostly ocean, in which case I suppose an expanding ice-shelf might allow some water recycling. However, in Eos the dark side is all mountain.

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James I Mapletoft

Sorry I wasted my money.

Reviewed in Australia on 13 July 2019

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The worst thing that can be said about an entertainment is that it is boring. I got up to chapter 39 but could not continue. This book is BORING. I stopped caring about the characters quite early on, but kept plodding my way through hoping for the story to kick into gear. After 38 chapters it hadn’t, so I stopped reading.

Your value may vary to mine, but as a long time Sci Fi enthusiast this book just doesn’t do it for me.

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A real page turner from a rapidly improving author

Reviewed in Australia on 16 July 2019

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This writer continues to improve. AG Riddle has always been strong on plot development and making a real page turner with just enough of a realistic connection to reality to ease the suspension of reality. With this newest novel, part of a sequence now 3 books long, AG Riddle improves in his character development. His characters are becoming more believable. Note though that’s this skill remains a work in progress.
The series provides a believable solution to the Fermi Paradox, hopefully book 3 will take this plot line a little further.
Thoroughly recommended.

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Adrian Faccioni

Not a bad read but such a cliche female lead who loses all desires outside of her maternal drive to protect her children

Reviewed in Australia on 17 December 2019

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The story line was good, no happy ending which I liked, but the female lead role was pathetic, why do all authors reduce females to purely biological protectors who lose the desire to achieve anything meaningful once they have children.

On a positive note, I listened to the audio version and the role of the infected Android (Arthur) was excellent with great humour.

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Wendy Adams

Good Read

Reviewed in Australia on 16 July 2019

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Great read.. kept you guessing and not to much referring to the first of the trilogy, looking forward to the final part of the trio

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Andrew Graham

Another great read.

Reviewed in Australia on 6 August 2019

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Totally enjoyed the first book, and this one was just as good. Looking forward to final book, though disappointed it will only be a small book.

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Mr Arthur G Dunn

Can't wait for the final book

Reviewed in Australia on 16 August 2019

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Liked the characters, the timeline and the concepts. Some of the science was a little off - but did not detract from the overall story.

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Iain Alexander

This time, we're doing it just for the kids.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 November 2019

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AG Riddle is a superb writer and I've thoroughly enjoyed every single book except this one.
In the first part of this trilogy (which I loved), the main characters are out to save the Earth and Humanity from extinction because, y'know.. it's humanity and planet Earth. They don't need more motivation than that - who would?
In this book though, their prior motivations go out of the window in favour of the saving the planet "for their children" and the underlying feeling I got throughout this book was that was their only real reason for trying to save the planet, everything else they've done up to this point was somehow null and void and the pervading subtext I kept feeling was "you (reader) just won't understand their motivation unless you have your own kids" - and whilst that may be true for some people I'd like to believe that humanity is a tad more altruistic than that and might want to save Earth and humanity because we're worth saving, because it's the right thing to do.
Maybe as a #childfree person I'm being overly sensitive, but the "doing it for the kids" felt forced upon me as a reader and not (like in dozens of other books I've read) just another element of a character's motivation.
I'm still going to read book 3 (which isn't out at time of writing this) because he is a great writer, I just hope the characters evolve out of the 1 dimensional writing they found themselves in during book 2.

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Gameshow72

Identity issues

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 December 2019

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This book has identity issues - it doesn't seem to know what it wants to be or in fact whom it's written for.
Book 1 in the series (4 stars!) was imaginative, well structured, had a well-paced story arc, had characters I could relate to and liked and, not unimportant, was riddled with gripping and exciting scenes IN SPACE. Full disclosure, right at the end the whole thing took a bit of a nosedive (that's where the fifth star went), but a good read nevertheless.

Book 2 has nearly none of this. Gone are the rockets, the hair-raising near escapes and the high-concept ideas that made book 1 very decent. The first 24 chapters are about rationing food. Yes, all of it - it's a painfully slow description of a dwindling food stock and starving children. Heart wrenching, surely for some, but that's a different audience than the first book was intended for I suspect. Paint, dry, watch. I didn't recognise the characters either, who are these suddenly bland, out-of-the-box, 13-to-the-dozen stereotypes, who's only skill seems to be making incredibly daft decisions? The occasions where there was an opportunity to move the story forward were rare, far between and incredibly predictable.

In the end, I gave up leafing forward in the hope of finding that small nugget, that little story twist that would rekindle my interest. I feel this is a huge opportunity missed and more than a bit cheated out of a good read and 5 pounds.

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MagsU

Good story, good series!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 September 2019

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I’ve enjoyed this book, I bought it after I had read the first one The Winter World. An alien species has arrived and they want to “steal” the energy from our sun which plunges the planet into deep frozen winter. The Solar War takes us further into what happens on our winter world. The characters are believable and the story is well paced and I’m looking forward to the third book The Lost Colony which I have pre-ordered and am waiting for impatiently 😄

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Chris D

A very poor follow up and slog

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 March 2020

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After the excellent Sci Fi of the Long Winter, this book is a complete and utter mess with an author who is not sure if he wants to write Sci Fi or a family saga, suitable for a non SF audience. Suddenly the spirit of the first book has become the plodding lay down and let the Aliens win sequel, which is boring..boring..dull. The ingenuity of the first book has been replaced by a plot so mundane you can see the end result coming and you resent having to read pages of made up ` excitement` to get to a pre-ordained result, which if it didn't happen would close the story there and then, This is just the hallmark of a 0ne-shot author, who used up all his ideas on the first book. The final result is just not worth the slog to get to it. I have also read the third book in the series and if anything it is even worse!

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Masefield

A brilliant tale of tragedy and hope.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 September 2019

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I loved Winter World and couldn’t start The Solar War fast enough. The book did not disappoint. The principal characters from the previous book develop really well here; we get a wonderful insight into their psyches as they struggle to deal with the return of The Grid. The story is a little slower than its predecessor and the majority of the time is spent on Earth but that is no bad thing. There is plenty of action, intrigue and mysteries to keep one happy.

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Warning! Don't start reading this unless you have time to finish it in a single sitting.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 August 2019

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This and the preceding "Winter World' are extremely satisfying books to read. I've done little else in the past few days but to be gripped by the plot. I'm not a great reviewer of books so all I can say is that 5 stars is nowhere near enough. Upon finishing 'The Solar War' I immediately pre-ordered the next & last in the series: 'Lost Colony'. Probably the best I've read for a long time. Now checking out Mr Riddle's other offerings.

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Awesome.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 July 2019

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Having discovered The Atlantis Gene accidentally whilst searching for something new and unusual to stimulate my grey matter I have followed Mr Riddle on his literary journey to fame and fortune.
No one deserves the plaudits heaped on him more.
Having read a great many books of this genre I find him to be among the greats.
Looking forward to the conclusion of this saga and onwards to the next one.

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Craig Roebuck

Simply Brilliant, Roll on Book 3

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 July 2019

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The Solar War follows on brilliantly from Winter World, as usual with Mr Riddle very well written and with wonderful imaginative detail. I simply could not put down, reading on with every spare minute I could.
I can honestly say I totally enjoyed reading the solar war and can't wait for the sequel in fact I instantly pre-ordered it.
Thanks Gerry I'll look forward to book 3 ..

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PJG

Great follow up to The Long Winter

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 August 2019

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I've given this 5 stars although it wasn't as fast paced as The Long Winter - maybe too much time spent on Earth. However, it had the same type of clever plot twists and the second half of the read picked up pace and really got into the question of 'what are the highly evolved beings really up to'. I cant wait to find out in November when the final instalment comes out. Yes, I've pre ordered. I'm still hoping for a movie series......

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Excellent book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 November 2019

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Excellent book, the first in the Solar Wars trilogy and kept me gripped right from the start. A G RIdddle certainly knows how to right a good story and this is no exception. Up there with the Atlantis Trilogy.

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Enjoyable reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 October 2019

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I have read other books written by A. G. Riddle, and have thoroughly enjoyed them all. I expect when I get around to reading this one I will say the same, and then I will provide a review about this book.

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Sebastian

A more interesting 2nd book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 July 2019

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Better than the 1st book from the series. The plot of this book is more human whereas the first book, for me, it was too much AI and less about human connection. Can't wait for the last book from this series.

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Book Mad Mother

Loved it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 October 2019

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Almost as good as his Atlantis Gene Trilogy, the story line pulls you in, a good adventure, frustrated that I have to wait a month or the final book!

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M. E. Macsorley

Long winded.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 November 2019

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Like most American authors, this is long-winded and the language used is stilted. I found myself skipping large sections of text. Shame really, as the premise is good.

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TVR-Andy

Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 September 2019

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Following on from book one the story has just got better and better. The best sci-fi for ages. Book three already pre ordered. A must read if you like sci fi.

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