
The Apocalypse Seven
Kindle Edition
HarperCollins · Ebook · May 25, 2021
Scott Sigler called Doucette’s cozy apocalypse story, “entertaining as hell.” Come see how the world ends, not with a bang, but a whatever . . .
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- Genres
- Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Alien Contact, Dystopian
- Published
- HarperCollins, May 25, 2021
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Scott Sigler called Doucette’s cozy apocalypse story, “entertaining as hell.” Come see how the world ends, not with a bang, but a whatever . . . The whateverpocalypse. That’s what Touré, a twenty-something Cambridge coder, calls it after waking up one morning to find himself seemingly the only person left in the city. Once he finds Robbie and Carol, two equally disoriented Harvard freshmen, he realizes he isn’t alone, but the name sticks: Whateverpocalypse.
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But it doesn’t explain where everyone went. It doesn’t explain how the city became overgrown with vegetation in the space of a night. Or how wild animals with no fear of humans came to roam the streets. Add freakish weather to the mix, swings of temperature that spawn tornadoes one minute and snowstorms the next, and it seems things can’t get much weirder. Yet even as a handful of new survivors appear—Paul, a preacher as quick with a gun as a Bible verse; Win, a young professional with a horse; Bethany, a thirteen-year-old juvenile delinquent; and Ananda, an MIT astrophysics adjunct—life in Cambridge, Massachusetts gets stranger and stranger. The self-styled Apocalypse Seven are tired of questions with no answers. Tired of being hunted by things seen and unseen. Now, armed with curiosity, desperation, a shotgun, and a bow, they become the hunters. And that’s when things truly get weird.
Genre Crossfire
Come here for
- Apocalyptic, sci-fi, and supernatural lanes overlapping cleanly
- A long, immersed read with collector appeal
Expect
- Space and time travel signals
- Category-first energy, not subtlety
Where it sits
| Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic | 100% |
|---|---|
| Dystopian | 35% |
| Alien Contact | 27% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Contemporary Fantasy
- Fantasy Adventure
- Horror
- The Occult & Supernatural
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- Sci-Fi Adventure
- Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
- Time Travel Fiction
- Alien Contact
- Authors
- Gene Doucette
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- May 25, 2021
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Contemporary Fantasy