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Afterland Desolate: Origin
Paperback
Series: Afterland Desolate, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 14 2025
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
When the Grid fell, civilization crumbled -- but the machine still remembers. Ashwire is the Grid's ghost made flesh: stitched from fifty corpses, sighted by a red optic implant and armed with a barbed synapse prosthetic. He wakes into an Afterland of cult prophets, cannibal queens, and mechanized warlords who each see one promise in him -- salvation, a weapon, or a way to the throne.
Mama Grin rules the Gutlands by ritual hunger. Cindersaintpreaches purity through flame in Pyrahn. Queen Ida -- the Queen of Rust -- commands an army forged from scrap and crown; a monarch and warrior. A sentient obsidian android named Eidon walks beside Ashwire, and a mutated toad-scout known as Toadboy slips in and out of the shadows. And a terrifying assassin who will stop at nothing to complete her mission.
Afterland Desolate -- Origin is a savage, cinematic plunge into a world where faith and machine collide. If you love visceral, character-driven post-apocalyptic fiction with dark myth and a warrior at its center, step into the ash. Join the cult of the Afterland -- the prophecy is foretold.
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