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American Apocalypse: The Collapse Begins (9781569759035) Paperback – November 10, 2020

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Read the startling prescient novel by acclaimed author, Nova. With the economy in free fall and millions out of work, America's fragile democracy collapses.

The federal government is left powerless, police and military forces disband, and a once-proud America descends into lawless anarchy. Cities empty. Looting, violence and murder quickly become the norm. And desperate citizens are left to fight for their very survival.

Amid the chaos, one teenager finds himself homeless and alone, striving to stay alive on the outskirts of a crumbling Washington, D.C. Forced to adapt by the constant threat of starvation and violence, the young man finds himself developing survival skills he never imagined needing and a moral sense that gives meaning to his struggle.

American Apocalypse is a riveting coming-of-age story where one man, against all odds, must find the will to live and, in turn, become a fledgling force of justice.

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November 10, 2020
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5.06 x 0.64 x 7.81 inches
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1569759030
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This is American Apocalypse I in the Ulysses Press version. It has been edited again and has a new cover.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ulysses Press (November 10, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 280 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1569759030
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1569759035
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.06 x 0.64 x 7.81 inches

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brianinboise

Apocalypse - - coming soon to your neighborhood

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2010

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A hard-to-put-down read, including one with plenty of the gore that a person could expect in the near future. My first thought was to buy a gun, not to mention some dried foods. The author portrays the government in a genuine light, which is to say an entity which is consumed by a drive to increase its power over we the little people. Gardener, the protagonist, reminded me of a long-ago friend, an ex-Marine, who, although generally mild-mannered, could turn abruptly into a take-no-prisoners kind of guy. There was one drawback in the book, that being grammatical errors (appearing occasionally early on, but becoming numerous as the book progressed). Nevertheless, American Apocalypse provides lots of bang for the buck.

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oldwolf

Good characters. Well developed

Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2014

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Completely different viewpoint of the crash. The main character is not a prepper. He doesn't have lots of money. He is not a far right wing born again. He is just a young man caught up in the SHTF.
Well written, Good characters. Well developed. Very believable.

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Degas

From Survival into Metaphysics?

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2012

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I was going to gush 5 stars all over the first book. I'm glad I waited until I read through Book IV. The series gets 3 stars, with most of the credit going to the first book and all but the last couple of chapters of the second. After that, it just gets weird. Here's what the author has to say about it at the end of Book II:

"The introduction of Freya, a supernatural being, may have confused or even bothered some readers. I feel she is an important element to the ongoing story because she represents the beginning of a new world. This isn't and was never intended to be a survival book. Rather, I am writing about the end of one civilization and the birth of another. I believe if we were really to encounter a complete breakdown of society, it is entirely possible that something brand new and unforeseen would develop."

Obviously, he got a lot of negative feedback on the subject, and felt the need to leave that Afterword.

The dialogue and mental narratives of the characters in the book are believable in the way they are laid out. I like the fact that the story throughout the series is linear. As I've said before, it takes a very polished author to jump locations and characters from chapter to chapter and have the story hold the reader's attention. What I don't like, and this may just be me, are stories told in the first person. I think most authors who write in this style are living out their own fantasies through their writing. Nothing wrong with that, unless their Ego takes over the keyboard...and that almost always happens.

Other reasons why I gave this only 3 stars? The protagonist is gradually revealed to be a sociopath (perhaps even a psychopath), and the group he's associated with just another Gang led by a zealot; out to murder all who don't believe as they do. Another personal bias comes into play here. I have always been into PA fiction. I have only really enjoyed those novels that focus on rebuilding. "Alas, Babylon" comes to mind, as does the "Our End of the Lake" series available here on Kindle. Don't look for any of that here. The "Horde" led by the main characters is more like a swarm of locusts. The author spends a great deal of time denigrating "Fundie Christ-ers" while developing the protagonist and his group into a gang of religious zealots worshiping the Norse Pantheon. He even has the Norse god Thor show up with his hammer to clean out one nest of evil Fundamentalists.

If you can suspend enough of your disbelief, you might still find these books a worthwhile investment. That's one thing I have no gripe about: the price points on all the "books" are good. There is only one offering of a length that qualifies it as a "Novel" (Book II). The rest are, at best, novellas. Still, the series kept me reading. It might be a worthwhile time-waster for you, as well.

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RTH

Loved it.

Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2010

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This short book is based on the author's postings to a financial blog. The first book is written much like Day By Day Armageddon by J. L. Bourne in that it is a stream of consciousness style of writing, which I greatly enjoy. One gets the feeling that the book was written on-the-fly, with no outline or preconceived plot line. The story develops wherever the author's mind takes him.

This amateur style leads to an episodic tale consisting of short chapters and few characters. Many characters enter the story briefly, but only to fulfill a particular episode. The main characters are few, and easy to keep track of as you are reading.

The book is narrated from the first-person. "Gardner" is a recently unemployed IT professional who quickly finds himself without a job, a girlfriend or a place to live. He spends the first part of the book describing his daily travails amongst the homeless, and an American society devolving into chaos brought about by our recent financial crisis. Although, in this fictional parallel universe, the crisis becomes a permanent depression.

Gardner's survival on the streets becomes more and more precarious, resulting in a murder committed in the woods where the newly Northern Virginia homeless have become "Tree People" and "Car People." Gardner's personality transforms from that of a techy nerd whose whole life has been spent in self-imposed air conditioned isolation, to that of an avenger of the desperate homeless.

His talents as an IT and systems expert soon land Gardner in a "clan" where he meets his romantic interest. The clan operates in the gray area of the black market, between the still operational civilization of Metro Washington, D.C., and the truly homeless tree and car people. He soon meets Max, an ex-Marine who plays Butch Cassidy to Gardner's Sundance Kid.

As the American Apocalypse scenario of financial collapse realistically plays out, Gardner catches glimpses of news from TV and the Internet. The world outside of his small dystopian universe is falling apart, and America's greatness is fast becoming a distant memory.

The first book is short and sweet, and should be immediately followed by the second book, which is much more professionally written and researched.

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OJB

Economic collapse post apocalyptic story morphing into Finnish gods on Earth angle

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 14, 2011

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This is a book about the collapse of civilisation in the USA and what the book shows as the feeble attempts of the government to hold things together. Basically this is a sort of right wing survivalist wet dream. As a post apocalyptic book it's quite interesting and quite well written. I give it 3.5. The hero is OK at first in this book but as the series progresses into book 2 becomes a bit of a psychopathic jerk and goes around provoking people, and sometimes that a little hard to understand, especially when the main character was never in the military or had the training that many of the people he goes up against have. Book 2 sees some peculiar changes where the book morphs from a survivalist wish fulfilment book into same Finish goddess injected action plotlines - yes you read that right the author drops a living breathing Finnish goddess into it. Book 1, this one, is however pretty solid and enjoyable.

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