Assimilation Protocol

by Brian F.H. Clement

Isolated in an institution for twenty years, Thomas Atwater has grown up away from the horrors of the Mutation Plague that swept the globe after the Final Transmission was sent. Now an adult, he makes his way into a strange new world inhabited by mutant communities, cults, and genetically engineered assassins.

When he finds himself targeted, he is taken in by a mysterious woman - a humanoid salamander - who claims to be a bodyguard sent by a secret group which hopes to use him to change the world. In order to make the journey to the group, they must locate pieces of a missing technological puzzle, then trek across a deadly contaminated wasteland while avoiding human supremacists and the programmed mutant hunters sent by the all-powerful Ordex conglomerate.

This special re-release contains two additional short stories set in the world and timeline of Assimilation Protocol.

320 pages, Paperback

Published November 20, 2020

About the author

I've been writing and directing low-budget films for years and decided to jump back into my childhood love of writing. My first novel, The Final Transmission, was published in late 2013, and the sequel, Assimilation Protocol was originally released in November 2017. After the publisher disintegrated, I re-released both along with the third in the series, Cronus Eclipsed, in March 2020. I'm also working on a comic series, Ghost Cats, and have a number of short stories either just released or about to be released in anthology form. I'm having a lot of fun writing and look forward to continuing to do so!