IN NEW NOVEL, SELF-RELIANCE KEY TO SURVIVING YELLOWSTONE CALDERA SUPER-ERUPTION In the new apocalyptic novel, Yellowstone, New Hampshire-based author K.R.Nilsen creates a cooperative, self-contained, and highly self-sufficient community by the name of Independency, Minnesota. Populated by little more than 100 techno-agrarian pioneers, they build a new social and economic model that shuns global hyper-consumerism for a mode of living that places high value on self-reliance; hands-on food, goods, and energy production; personal and community-wide thriftiness; zero waste; nonviolence, and hard work for the benefit of all. The ebook, now available on Amazon.com (free chapters to peruse and free lending service), opens with the buildup of geological forces within the 1,500 mile volcanic …