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The Destroyer
The him lives in a desert world, long after The Fall of Civilization.
Food is scarce, except for coconuts found in oases, and cannibalism is a common practice. Language is devolving as the human population dwindles. Rainfall is highly acidic, and people are forced to burrow underground when the rain falls to avoid burning to death.
When children reach a certain age, most become The Children; powerful, mindless, cannibalistic monsters that only come out at night.
Most people are addicted to The Drug, which makes them temporarily forget about the world that they live in. The Drug can, and does, kill.
All the while, the him is searching for the one item from before the fall, the one item that survived it all: The Destroyer.
Food is scarce, except for coconuts found in oases, and cannibalism is a common practice. Language is devolving as the human population dwindles. Rainfall is highly acidic, and people are forced to burrow underground when the rain falls to avoid burning to death.
When children reach a certain age, most become The Children; powerful, mindless, cannibalistic monsters that only come out at night.
Most people are addicted to The Drug, which makes them temporarily forget about the world that they live in. The Drug can, and does, kill.
All the while, the him is searching for the one item from before the fall, the one item that survived it all: The Destroyer.
295 pages, Paperback
First published February 28, 2018
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February 1, 2014
So this is the second book my brother wrote and has asked me to read. This is only like the second edition but already it was very cleaned up and a very entertaining read.
The story takes place somewhere in the distant future. It has a very Mad Max gone even worse feeling to it. A man walking through the desert looking for something called the "destroyer." He hopes that this device will be able to save man kind. Along the way he finds a female that has lost her child to the "children;" a zombie like group of beings that live in the oasis's, that are scattered around the desert, and can only come out at night.
As this pair of survivors go north they find the oasis that the child was taken at and are able to rescue it only to lose it again when they stumble upon an old bunker, where a group of survivalists have been hiding for several generations. This group of people decide that the child must be protected from its own cannibalistic mother and tests must be preformed to see how the child has survived so long. The mother and the character are then thrown out of the bunker and told to come back in several months so that they maybe be allowed to get the child back.
At this point the main character drags the female away to the bunker and tries to continue north looking for his "destroyer." The distraught mother ends up leaving the main character to try and find a way back into the bunker. But he hardly notices as he becomes more and more obsessed with his journey. He eventually makes it far enough north where it is cold and snowy. There a tribe of people take him in and take care of him. He learns that they possess the destroyer and that he is to become a sacrifice to it. He escapes in a blizzard and near death has a vision that he must return to the camp. When he does everyone is dead, killed by a roaming group of "children." The he finds out the the destroyer is only a Kiss album, and turns back to try and find the bunker and female again.
It was a very good story, and I hope that he continues refining it and can get it out there to the world. I look forward to reading his next creation.
The story takes place somewhere in the distant future. It has a very Mad Max gone even worse feeling to it. A man walking through the desert looking for something called the "destroyer." He hopes that this device will be able to save man kind. Along the way he finds a female that has lost her child to the "children;" a zombie like group of beings that live in the oasis's, that are scattered around the desert, and can only come out at night.
As this pair of survivors go north they find the oasis that the child was taken at and are able to rescue it only to lose it again when they stumble upon an old bunker, where a group of survivalists have been hiding for several generations. This group of people decide that the child must be protected from its own cannibalistic mother and tests must be preformed to see how the child has survived so long. The mother and the character are then thrown out of the bunker and told to come back in several months so that they maybe be allowed to get the child back.
At this point the main character drags the female away to the bunker and tries to continue north looking for his "destroyer." The distraught mother ends up leaving the main character to try and find a way back into the bunker. But he hardly notices as he becomes more and more obsessed with his journey. He eventually makes it far enough north where it is cold and snowy. There a tribe of people take him in and take care of him. He learns that they possess the destroyer and that he is to become a sacrifice to it. He escapes in a blizzard and near death has a vision that he must return to the camp. When he does everyone is dead, killed by a roaming group of "children." The he finds out the the destroyer is only a Kiss album, and turns back to try and find the bunker and female again.
It was a very good story, and I hope that he continues refining it and can get it out there to the world. I look forward to reading his next creation.
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