The Quiet Apocalypse

Author : Dave Jeffery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Quiet Apocalypse written by Dave Jeffery and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end is hear... A mutant strain of meningitis has wiped out most of mankind. The few who have survived the fever are now deaf. Bitter with loss and terrified to leave the city known as Cathedral, the inhabitants rely on The Samaritans, search teams sent out into the surrounding countryside. Their purpose, to hunt down and enslave the greatest commodity on Earth, an even smaller group of people immune to the virus, people who can still hear. People like me. My name is Chris. This is my story. "A Quiet Apocalypse is told from the perspective of ex-schoolteacher Chris, a hearing survivor. He has lost everything, including his freedom, and through his eyes we learn of what it is like to live as a slave in this terrible new world of fear and loss. I was keen to write a piece that preyed upon people's traditional misconceptions of deafness as an illness, and the imposition of 'hearing' norms. It is a story that has poignancy in any understanding of the struggles of minority groups." - Author, Dave Jeffery (Cover by Adrian Baldwin; original artwork by Roberto Segate)

Author : Nick Cracknell
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781984360427
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quiet Apocalypse written by Nick Cracknell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An injured man awakens in an abandoned island resort.The phones are dead.The clocks are frozen.Piles of food sit untouched...Worse still, strange visions tell him his time may be running out.With no seeming hope of rescue he desperately searches for clues.But he soon realises he's in a terrifying race against time just to survive...

Author : T. M. Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781097203796
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famine written by T. M. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spores are gone.The world is saved....Or is it?When Deidre and Sam stopped the production of the spores, they thought the world was safe. The air was clearing. They hoped the non-Resistants could soon walk the ground again. It was only a matter of time until the US was rebuilt and things returned to some semblance of normalcy.But winter is coming, and new supplies aren't.Two hundred people look to Deidre and Sam for survival, and the cold is settling in. The bunker was never meant to house so many people for so long. Tensions run high, food and water are scarce, and the spores still hang in the air. Time is running out for Sam and Deidre to find a new source of food and water for their community.Just when things seem bleakest, a rumor from the east strikes fear into the hearts of even the bravest survivors.That shiny black egg in the desert? The one Deidre and Sam risked their lives to disable? It might not be the only one...

Author : Chris Begley
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1541675274
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Next Apocalypse written by Chris Begley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the collapse of civilizations can help us prepare for a troubled future. Pandemic, climate change, or war: our era is ripe with the odor of doomsday. In movies, books, and more, our imaginations run wild with visions of dreadful, abandoned cities and returning to the land in a desperate attempt at survival. In The Next Apocalypse, archaeologist Chris Begley argues that we completely misunderstand how disaster works. Examining past collapses of civilizations, such as the Maya and Rome, he argues that these breakdowns are actually less about cataclysmic destruction than they are about long processes of change. In short: it’s what happens after the initial uproar that matters. Some people abandon their homes and neighbors; others band together to start anew. As we anticipate our own fate, Begley tells us that it was communities, not lone heroes, who survived past apocalypses—and who will survive the next. Fusing archaeology, survivalism, and social criticism, The Next Apocalypse is an essential read for anxious times.

Author : Lauren James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781406375510
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quiet at the End of the World written by Lauren James and published by . This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sci-fi mystery adventure about the last surviving members of the human race. " "Lauren James is a genius at building tension." SFX Magazine "James is one to watch." Kirkus ReviewsHow would it feel to be the last remaining human? Lowrie and Shen are the youngest people in the world after a virus caused global infertility. When the virus mutates to become even more deadly, the pair face a future entirely alone unless they can find a cure. But how can two teenagers succeed where the great scientists have failed? It feels as though there is no hope for humanity until they discover a secret that turns their entire world upside-down.

Author : Rachel Sykes
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526108895
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The quiet contemporary American novel written by Rachel Sykes and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the concept of ‘quiet’ – an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles – and argues for the term’s application to the study of contemporary American fiction. In doing so, it makes two critical interventions. Firstly, it maps the neglected history of quiet fictions, arguing that from Hester Prynne to Clarissa Dalloway, from Bartleby to William Stoner, the Western tradition is filled with quiet characters. Secondly, it asks what it means for a novel to be quiet and how we might read for quiet in an American literary tradition that critics so often describe as noisy. Examining recent works by Marilynne Robinson, Teju Cole and Ben Lerner, among others, the book argues that quiet can be a multi-faceted state of existence, one that is communicative and expressive in as many ways as noise but filled with potential for radical discourse by its marginalisation as a mode of expression.

Author : Craig Harrison
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 192214813X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quiet Earth written by Craig Harrison and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Hobson, a geneticist, wakes one morning to find his watch stopped at 6.12. The streets are deserted, there are no signs of life or death anywhere, and every clock he finds has stopped: at 6.12. Is Hobson the last person left on the planet? Inventive and suspenseful, The Quiet Earth is a confronting journey into the future, and a dark past. This new edition of Craig Harrison's highly sought-after 1981 novel, which was later made into a cult film starring Bruno Lawrence, Pete Smith and Alison Routledge, comes with an introduction by Bernard Beckett. Craig Harrison was born in Leeds in 1942. He left for New Zealand in 1966 after being appointed a lecturer at Massey University. There he devised a course in art history, which he taught until his retirement in 2000. His award-winning play Tomorrow Will Be a Lovely Day (1974) was performed for a quarter of a century, including in the Soviet Union. He is the author of five other plays, including Ground Level (1974), which led to a television series, Joe & Koro. Craig's most recent book, the young-adult comedy The Dumpster Saga, was a finalist in the 2008 New Zealand Post Book Awards. He lives in Palmerston North. 'Cuts to the heart of our most basic fears...compelling...a classic.' Bernard Beckett 'Excellent...The inevitability of the horror has a Hitchcock quality.' Listener

Author : D T Griffith
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Silent Dystopia written by D T Griffith and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-05-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HEaR TODaY ... The disease known as MNG-U has staked its claim on humanity and broken the world forever. Most of those who survive have been robbed of their hearing, deafened in this quiet apocalypse. Around the globe, people do what they can to exist in the terrifying silence. Whether in isolation or in new communities, they must persevere amidst a changed and brutal landscape that is now barely recognisable as a world they once knew. Normality has new boundaries; the rules rewritten in the name of survival. From the world of Dave Jeffery's A QUIET APOCALYPSE come ten unique stories with one, ultimate vision ... To show what it takes to endure A Silent Dystopia... Edited by: D.T. Griffith Stories by: J.A. Sullivan; Stephanie Ellis; A.S. MacKenzie; Kev Harrison; Raven Dane; Morgan K. Tanner; John Palisano; David Youngquist; Steve Stred; Tom & Dave Jeffery Afterword by Chris Kelso Cover art by Roberto Segate Cover design by Adrian Baldwin

Author : Will McIntosh
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1405522658
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soft Apocalypse written by Will McIntosh and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We've always imagined the world coming to an end in spectacular, explosive fashion. But what if - instead - humanity is just destined to slowly crumble? For Jasper and his nomadic tribe, their former life as middle-class Americans seems like a distant memory. Their world took a turn for the worse - and then never got better. Resources are running out, jobs keep getting scarcer, and the fabric of society is slowly disintegrating . . . . But in the midst of this all, Jasper's just a guy trying to make ends meet, find a nice girl who won't screw him around, and keep his group safe on the violent streets. Soft Apocalypse follows the tribe's struggle to find a place for themselves and their children in the dangerous new place their world has become.

Author : Paul Trevor Nolan
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291970363
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent Apocalypse written by Paul Trevor Nolan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: