When the Cold Breeze Blows Away (ArgosyMTM AU)


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When the Cold Breeze Blows Away is an epic contemporary/fantasy/science-fiction/alternate-history war/dystopia drama novel written by Filipino-American author MJ Nazario. The story was written as a “side project” while Nazario was working at Argosy Media’s animation studio in Charlotte, NC from 1989 to 1995, and was discovered by a janitor at that facility in 1999, who mailed it back to Nazario. Nazario continued working on the story from 1999 to 2003 on his own time, and it was published in 25 parts between 2005 and 2008 by MTM Press. It was the only novel written by Nazario, who returned to Argosy in 2006, as a scriptwriter for live-action TV shows. The book tells the story of a young South Korean soldier named Su Ji-Hoon during a fictional future World War III. The novel involves multiverse elements, with various different science-fiction and medieval fantasy worlds, as well as other alternate history worlds (including ones where the Third Reich won, the Soviet Union survived, and the Roman Empire still existed), “crossing over” (the exact terminology used in the story) with the dystopian future world.

The novel is known for its extreme length, with nearly 700 chapters. Nazario has said that “I had a lot of spare time at Argosy”.