Showing posts with label dystopian fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dystopian fiction. Show all posts

HHAC 2016: R. K. Weir


With a penchant for dreaming, crafting realities and building worlds from nothing are what 19-year-old, indie author, R.K. Weir enjoys doing most. If he's not thinking of new stories or imagining new characters, then he's most likely watching Netflix or reading.

—Full-time journalist student by day, aspiring indie author by night—

http://rkweir.com/

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Synopsis:

Stella Carlisle is a thousand miles from her destination, and she's willing to do whatever it takes to get there.

Whether that means manipulating fellow survivors, or killing them, nothing is going to stop her from getting what she wants.

While the infected lurk around every corner and bandits hide in every shadow, starvation and illness follow closely in their wake.

In a world of personal demons, void of connection, Stella truly is living in a world alone.

HHAC 2016 David Tyne

David Tyne is a Scottish author of the thriller/horror genre, with a deep-seated passion for being spooked and making everyone close to him extremely uncomfortable. Have a look at some more of his ghastly works, if you dare! 

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Synopsis:

Their place exists in the fiery lake of burning sulphur. This is their second death.

Caught in a blaze of city-wide terrorist attacks, young Daniel can only think of escaping the chaos and paving his way home. The further he flees from the armed soldiers and ravenous hunters that roam the streets, the more truth he uncovers of what happened to his fallen country.

It doesn’t take long to realise that the world he once knew has abandoned all of its laws, its nature and its dignity. Left with only his wit and two companions — a shell-shocked student and a lost child — he takes on more responsibility than his broken psyche can handle.

Will Daniel be able to protect those around him long enough to find his own family? Or will the homicidal hordes swallow every last one into their fold?

New Release: All Roads Lead to Terror

The horrors of the past meet the brutality of the present.


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Synopsis:

Four boys strengthen the bonds of their friendship, while taking their first hesitant steps into adulthood, as they face the brutality of an old, new world. They will be tested at every step in their journey, as they travel through a blasted land where the only hope is for a swift death followed by an endless sleep. Survival lay in the firepower they carried, coupled with their willingness to use it, and their ability to trust each other with their own lives.

The world has become a wild place filled with wild things, and into this new reality each of them had been born. Coming of age at the end of days, where savagery was the norm, and man's inhumanity to man was on daily display. Where the only law was the firepower one carried and the only hope was for a swift death followed by an endless sleep.

Meat was born at the height of the Zombie apocalypse, upon his birth his mother took one look at him and pronounced him meat. He grew up in a reality where they were all nothing more than walking bags of meat, so in his mind the name fit perfectly.

Window, his best friend, is very quiet, and ever watchful with a quick hand. To him friendship was the most important thing in the world. His family had perished in the ruthless times after the awakening and his temperament had been forged in the fire that took them from him. His friends were all he had left so he watched over them with a jealously protective nature strengthened by that sense of invulnerability all boys his age embraced. Further backed up by a quick hand with the .44 he'd used to kill the men who had raped his mother.

The remaining members of this quartet are Einstein who had been born within the compound at Bremo Bluff after the apocalypse. Having spent his life behind the fence he had no first hand knowledge of how brutal the world has become. As his name implies he's the smartest in the group, as well the most innocent. While that innocence helps to soften the ruthlessness of the other three, it will serve to drive a wedge into their friendship. On this trip he will discover just how terrifying the world beyond the fence has become.

The final member is Billie-Bob, one half of a set of twins who appeared outside the fence several years earlier. Your typical class clown whose mouth runs a mile a minute, if he isn't sharing overused jokes about Zombies, he's whispering the passages from a book his mother used to read to him when he was younger, a chant that provides him with a degree of comfort. Billie-Bob is unique in that at the tender age of eleven he has proven himself to be a natural born sniper with a willingness to use his special talent to protect his friends.

The trail they follow leads them East, into the Dreadlands, from which those who had dared venture in the past never returned. There are places where the fabric of reality is at its thinnest. Where nightmare creatures roam the shadowy corners of a well lit world. Existing at the edge of man consciousness, an indistinct blur briefly glimpsed in our peripheral vision. Their presence felt on a primitive level that reached our consciousness as a faint whisper in the night. Their touch the soft caress of chilled fingers dancing along the spine like the half remembered terrors lurking within the childhood memories of every person who had ever feared the night.

In Richmond they will be confronted by a savage cult of children who worship a creature of the night. A nightmare being that feasted upon the fear of its victims, delving into their innermost secrets, revealing half forgotten terrors that lay like a rotting carcass at the heart of their souls. For these creatures, that were once considered nightmare imaginings, are now awake in a world where the population that once served as their food source has been reduced.

Awake and very, very, hungry.

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About the Author
Richard was born in Frostburg, Maryland, in the winter of '58' and currently lives eight miles away. A five-year stint with the military allowed him to see what he wanted of the world. Married with four grown children and eight grandchildren, he and his wife provide a home to four pets that are spoiled beyond rotten.

In addition to writing daily he works a full time job in retail, and piddles around in his wood-shop making one mess after another when time permits.

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HHAC Day 15: All Roads Lead to Terror

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ALL ROADS LEAD TO TERROR
Coming of age in a post apocalyptic world
 
The horrors of the past meet the brutality of the present.  
The world had become a wild place filled with wild things, and into this new reality each of them had been born. Growing up in the time after, adventurers in an old, new, world. Coming of age at the end of days, where savagery was the norm, and man’s inhumanity to man was on daily display. Where the only law was the firepower one carried, and the only hope was for a swift death followed by an endless sleep.


Coming December 15, 2015

Upon his birth at the height of the Zombie Apocalypse, his mother took one look at him and pronounced him Meat. He survived, she didn’t. Accompanied by his three friends Window, Einstein, and Billie-Bob, Meat embarks on a quest to rescue several young children kidnapped from the compound where they all lived. A quest that will lead them into adulthood, with a brief detour through the Deadlands, as they confront the harsh reality of a brutal world beyond the barriers that had served to protect them. 

It's been fourteen years since that day in March when civilization crumbled and the dead walked upon the face of the earth. Mankind continues to struggle as it pulls itself from the brink of extinction. Pockets of humanity attest to the uncanny persistence of life as a once powerful society works to reestablish itself. Exploring this new reality, establishing trade with other compounds in every direction on the compass except for the East. To the East lays an unknown world, known only as the Dreadlands, a land of mystery where many had ventured, never to return.  

The trail leads Meat and his friends East, to Richmond, where they will be confronted by a savage cult of children who worship a creature of the night. A creature that until the apocalypse had existed in the shadowy corners of a well lit world. Feeding on the fear of its victims, delving into their innermost secrets, exposing half forgotten terrors that lay like a rotting carcass at the heart of their very souls.

Their only hope for survival lies in their quickness, the firepower they carry coupled with their willingness to use it, and the ability to trust one another.

ALL ROADS LEAD TO TERROR
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Future Titles in The Dreadland Chronicles
(current works in progress)

This Way To Heaven
Library of the Damned
Armageddon Air Force 


Zombies, Zombies, and more Zombies.

Everywhere you look there's Zombies. A large percentage of new releases of self published books are, from what I've seen, about the Zombie apocalypse. The walking dead want to eat your brains and they're everywhere from prime time TV to the shelves of your local bookstore. I want to interject right here that I've done no real research to back up my statement above. So please don't fill my comments with links and figure to prove otherwise.

Zombies have become synonymous with horror fiction. or would it be the other way around?

During a recent conversation in a local book store, talk turned to writing. I alluded to the fact that I was a writer and one person asked what I wrote about. I replied, horror. Eyes rolled, heads nodded as knowing glances were exchanged. So you write about Zombies? One of the group asked.

No, I write about things that go bump in the night. Ghosts, haunted places, evil spirits, that sort of thing. The blank looks were enough to send me on my way. Curses, foiled by Zombies again.

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Zombies. In fact I have two short stories that deal with Zombies in my soon to be released collection. Well not directly with Zombies, the two stories deal more with the characters who find themselves in the middle of a Zombie apocalypse, and how they adapt, or not, to the changing situation.

But I have come to my own conclusions as to why the genre is so popular. I believe it's a response to the growing confusion that has become our daily lives, the maddening pace and the over crowding. We're connected 24/7 and are being overwhelmed by information.

Zombie fiction as well as Dystopian Fiction such as The Hunger Games, offers us an escape from the insanity that has become our lives in the twenty first century. Not to mention the lifting of the normal restraints society places upon us. Zombies are a target rich environment whose presence has thinned the herd that is humanity, giving those of us who survive more elbow room to live. It offers a wild adventure of survival of the fittest, assuming of course that you are one of the lucky ones who doesn't end up as a hapless, undead, stumbling creature that craves the taste of brains.