Reviewed by Stephen Christopher for Readers' Favorite

A giant space mass has smashed its way through the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, sending asteroids all across the solar system, some headed for Earth. The US president wants to nuke them, but scientists insist that it won’t help and that they’ll 100% hit the planet, creating the next ice age. Geologist Carter Ferguson believes the only possibility for survival is to create communities inside caves, tapping into the magma sheet in the Earth’s core to provide heat. An asteroid takes out all the politicians in Washington, D.C., except for one, Agnes Stone, who’s out of town. As the new self-promoted leader of the US, she has another idea, believing that aquacities under the ocean are the solution. As she and Carter prepare both cases for the people left in the world, she stoops to all kinds of low levels to gain more popularity. As if that’s not enough, a religious zealot has determined that the asteroids are God’s way of wiping out the evil in the world, so he and his followers plan to attack the caves and the aquacities, ensuring they’re the only people left alive. How does it all pan out? Can humanity survive? Read Steven F Freeman’s Super Freeze to find out.

Disaster novels with a dystopian feel are extremely popular. What Steven F Freeman has masterfully done here is set the scene before the cataclysmic event, so the reader is involved from the start. Asteroids hitting the Earth are a legitimate concern for us all, so the book ups the tension meter by featuring this plotline. Carter Ferguson is the kind of protagonist readers want to cheer for, and Agnes Stone is everything most people despise in a politician, so she’s the perfect foil for Carter. Super Freeze barrels along at a phenomenal pace, and readers will need to stay up late at night turning the pages to find out what happens. If this type of event really did happen, which option would you choose? By the end of the book, you’ll have your answer.