The Peter Zeihan Podcast Series - Announcing My New Book: Acceptable Range || Peter Zeihan

Episode Date: November 7, 2025

I’m thrilled to share that my first novel, and fifth book overall, is officially in the works! Acceptable Range is coming in early 2027, and you can join the interest list below now! Join the list here: https://bit.ly/AcceptableRangeFrom Peter Zeihan, New York Times bestselling author of The End of the World Is Just the Beginning, comes his first work of fiction: a high-stakes geopolitical thriller that spans continents and tests the limits of power, trust, technology, and national survival. A striking fusion of real-world insight and pulse-pounding suspense, Acceptable Range is a global-systems thriller — part autopsy, part countdown — propelled by the momentum of a civilization in collapse. It examines the machinery of the modern world and how a system built for perfection forgets how to survive error. Even before someone…gives things a push. In an age defined by feedback loops and vanishing margins, the question is no longer whether collapse can be stopped — only whether it can be contained within an acceptable range. Acceptable Range is the first installment of a trilogy, forthcoming from BenBella Books in early 2027.

Hey everybody, Peter Zine here coming to you from Colorado and I have news. A lot of you have been pestering me for quite some time to get another book out and I'm happy to say it has finally happened. My fifth book, acceptable range, comes out around probably New Year's 2026, 2027. It just takes that long. Now, this is a departure from what I have normally done. Normally, my job is to look at geopolitics and globalization and energy and trade and demographics and all the rest and build a picture of how the future is going to unfold. Now, the reason I've pushed off doing a book for so long, and it's been over two years since the end of the world just the beginning came out. That was book number four, is that everything is now in motion. And anything I wrote today would be

outdated by the time it finally got through the publishing process, much less a year after that. So I cheated. I'm turning into fiction. So my last book, End of the World's Just the Beginning, was a nonfiction book about how globalization came to be, how it's true. changing how it's collapsing and what will reform on the other side. Acceptable range is a story set against that backdrop and it's got everything. It's got gunfights. It's got technology and manufacturing. It's got trains. It's got tigers. I mean, I had a lot of fun putting it together. Anyway, it is in edit. I can't wait to get my edits back near the end of the year and then it'll be off to the printer and then it will be available for you. So in the meantime, it's not available for

pre-order yet. We have a mailing list that is attached to this video so you can sign up. And so as soon as it is available for pre-order, we will send you a notification so you don't have to go click, click, click, click every five minutes and wait. We'll do the waiting for you. And in the meantime, I'm working on the next one because acceptable range is the start of a trilogy.