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Aftermath: and Other Short Stories of a Dystopian Future
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781977267122
Publisher: Outskirts Pr
Published: Oct 27 2023
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What awaits mankind? AFTERMATH and Other Short Stories of a Dystopian Future paints seven different pictures of what the future could hold. In AFTERMATH, a doomsday prepper whose obsession cost him his marriage fights to survive with his son after World War III occurs. The Governor spins a tale of a California that has been split into six independent states. The Governor of Silicon Valley and his residents enjoy a life of luxury, while the state of Central California has devolved into a dry, barren dust bowl, where water and electricity are rationed. A progressive pastor's past comes back to haunt him in The End/Beginning. A Woman's World is the story of a man living in a world dominated by women, where males are second class citizens. An actor with an incurable disease, takes the bold step of being cryonically frozen, with hopes of being successfully reanimated in the future, in Defrosting Jeremy. In Infiltration, a despondent man goes off the grid after losing his wife and child but returns to a dramatically different America. After a worldwide pandemic kills over four million people, a vaccine is created and rushed to the masses. Immunization Nation is the story of two couples living in a rebuilding America, as citizens are forced to receive a largely untested vaccine while the government lies to them. AFTERMATH and Other Shorts Stories of a Dystopian Future, is a thought provoking compilation of how the world could one day be. .
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