Fear: The First Six Chapters

by Mike Lee

In 2020, the Third World War began. No one knows who started the war but North Korea or Iranian-sponsored terrorists are the most likely suspects. Whoever caused it, it was the end of the Modern Era. Step into this dystopian nightmare. An Atomic World War III destroyed most of modern civilization. Then the world returned to a more primitive society, one in which the middle class no longer existed and only the poor and the rich now inhabited the Earth. Nuclear fallout and gangs of mutants made the surface uninhabitable at night. The story takes place in post World War III Chicago, where the surface of America is now uninhabitable by all but mutants and the three floating cities of Sanatorium, Palladium and Gymnasium are all that is left of America shores and three floating cities of Reagan, Nixon and Kennedy float on the ocean’s surface. For years after the Third World War, the U.S. Government became more and more ineffective, so that it gradually turned over all functions to a huge corrupt private FEAR Corporation. Then, FEAR a seemly beneficent entity began a constant bombardment of propaganda, gradual starvation, kidnapping slaves, and the introduction of RAGE, a highly addictive and dangerous drug, which intensifies people’s fears, and is used to enslave the poor by FEAR Corporation seeking to remain in power. In addition, FEAR began segregating people into FEAR colors and FEAR camps. Robots dominate most jobs and minor offenders of the code must submit themselves to Public Punishment Day. They began taking an occasional citizen’s child, a Five Year, from their biological parents, and adopted by affluent citizens, never to be seen again by their real families. The book comes to a final thrilling climax that will excite even non-science fiction fans.

134 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 2, 2017

About the author

Bio: I was born in Muncie, Indiana, but raised in California and Ohio. My mother, who was a librarian, along with an English teacher or two set me on the path of reading such great Science Fiction writers as, Robert A. Heinlein, Jules Verne, Aldus Huxley, Isaac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Douglas Adams, A. C. Clark, Frank Herbert and many, many more.

My favorite S.F. The books include; Dune, Stranger In A Strange Land, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Fahrenheit 451, The Time Machine, War of the Words, Slaughterhouse Five and many others. Dystopian novels include; Hunger Games, Brave New World, Divergent, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, just to name a few. I have just finished my third Science Fiction Novel and a first dystopian novel called, Fear, which should be coming out soon on Smashwords, Amazon Kindle Books, possible Kobo and other sites.