In the wake of global catastrophes that have destroyed industrial civilization, the inhabitants of Union Grove, a small New York town, do anything they can to get by, as they struggle to deal with a new way of life over the course of an eventful summer.

Davy Crockett, the self-proclaimed "ring-tailed roarer of the western woods" tells some tall tales about how he became a legend, throwing in a few real facts about his life along the way.

Aladdin outwits an evil magician who first tries to trick him into handing over an old lamp with a genie inside and later steals Aladdin's wife and possessions.

What will happen when our current plagues of global warming, epidemic disease, and overpopulation collide to exacerbate the end of the oil age? The last two hundred years have seen the greatest explosion of progress and wealth in the history of mankind, much of it based on the exploitation of cheap, nonrenewable fossil-fuel energy. Our daily enjoyment of oil and gas has given us the energy equivalent of three hundred slaves per person in the industrialized...

A fictionalized account, told as if by Will Rogers, of the life of the female sharpshooter who became famous starring in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show.