Prepared: A novella from the world of Fleet

Fleet

by Andrew D. Thaler

Samantha Choi thought she was making a documentary about the Doomsday Preppers of San Francisco. She never imagined that she'd be documenting the end of the world.

With the city under quarantine, a deadly plague waiting just beyond its borders, and resources running out. The San Francisco Bay Preppers make the only rational choice and bug out. Some run to their bunkers while others take to the sea, hoping to ride out the apocalypse. Still others watch, from high atop the San Francisco Seawall, as disaster unfolds below. With no food, no security, and no way out, the survivors will be forced to take desperate measures to escape.

Set in the world of Fleet, where catastrophic sea level rise and global pandemic have rendered the majority of land uninhabitable, Prepared takes us to the final days of the last coastal metropolis.

91 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 8, 2014

About the author

Andrew D. Thaler is a deep-sea ecologist, conservation biologist, science writer, and occasional science fiction author. His actual scientific writing can be found in the journals BMC Evolutionary Biology, Fungal Ecology, and Marine Policy, among others. He is the founder and senior editor of Southern Fried Science, where most of his popular science writing is found. His science fiction stories are featured in Eno Magazine and, inexplicably, Nature. He lives in California with his wife and a pair of very stubborn goats.