ASIN : B08B3NP4LJ
Publication date : May 25, 2021
Language : English
File size : 6971 KB
Praise for THE APOCALYPSE SEVEN
“Doucette’s ’seven’ aren’t just 'magnificent'—they're also entertaining as hell.” —Scott Sigler, New York Times bestselling author of the Infected Trilogy
"The adventure I've been looking for! Never once did I know what to expect, and I loved being proved wrong at every turn. Far more mind-bending than a book this fun has any right to be." —Zack Jordan, author of The Last Human
“[A] riveting postapocalyptic outing… Doucette’s vibrant prose and unique premise make for an enticing adventure.” —Publishers Weekly
“A cinematic, speculative exercise in which a ragtag band saves the world, kind of.” —Kirkus Reviews
This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whatever.
The whateverpocalypse. That’s what Touré, a twenty-something Cambridge coder, calls it after waking up one morning to find himself seemingly the only person left in the city. Once he finds Robbie and Carol, two equally disoriented Harvard freshmen, he realizes he isn’t alone, but the name sticks: Whateverpocalypse. But it doesn’t explain where everyone went. It doesn’t explain how the city became overgrown with vegetation in the space of a night. Or how wild animals with no fear of humans came to roam the streets.
Add freakish weather to the mix, swings of temperature that spawn tornadoes one minute and snowstorms the next, and it seems things can’t get much weirder. Yet even as a handful of new survivors appear—Paul, a preacher as quick with a gun as a Bible verse; Win, a young professional with a horse; Bethany, a thirteen-year-old juvenile delinquent; and Ananda, an MIT astrophysics adjunct—life in Cambridge, Massachusetts gets stranger and stranger.
The self-styled Apocalypse Seven are tired of questions with no answers. Tired of being hunted by things seen and unseen. Now, armed with curiosity, desperation, a shotgun, and a bow, they become the hunters. And that’s when things truly get weird.
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Author guest post...
Ten facts about THE APOCALYPSE SEVEN
10: Technically, there are eight of them.
9: So far, everyone’s favorite character hasn’t been one of the seven (or eight). It’s been a horse.
8: I initially built my seven characters—and their skillsets—off of D&D classes.
7: Speaking of D&D, MIT really does have a dungeon level.
6: Coywolves are a real thing too, but I made them larger for the book.
5: This will probably seem like a book written during a pandemic, considering I live in Cambridge and we just spent a year where imagining there was nobody else outside but you required almost no imagination. But I wrote it in 2019.
4: I did edit it in 2020, however. One evening I walked past a dormitory that’s featured in the book and realized I gave it too many floors, so I had to make a last minute change during the copy edits that probably aggravated the publisher.
3: It’s possible the most daring aspect of this book is, “What if there was an apocalypse and all the survivors basically got along okay with each other?”
2: I was ready to ride with this story never explaining what caused the end of the world and was halfway through the book before an answer occurred to me.
1: There’s a metaphoric component to the big reveal at the end that I may have made too subtle; I don’t think anybody’s picked up on it yet.
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GENE DOUCETTE is the author of more than twenty sci-fi and fantasy titles, including The Spaceship Next Door and The Frequency of Aliens, the Immortal series, Fixer and Fixer Redux, Unfiction, and the Tandemstar books. Gene lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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