In one sense, the novel begins relatively quietly and mundanely. The terrifying secret will either tear the nation apart-or bring the survivors together to remake a shattered world. With society collapsing all around them-and an ultraviolent militia threatening to exterminate them-the fate of the sleepwalkers depends on unraveling the mystery behind the epidemic. And like Shana, there are other “shepherds” who follow the flock to protect their friends and family on the long dark road ahead.įor as the sleepwalking phenomenon awakens terror and violence in America, the real danger may not be the epidemic but the fear of it.

Soon they are joined by a flock of sleepwalkers from across America, on the same mysterious journey. And she is heading with inexorable determination to a destination that only she knows. Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. a story about survival that’s not just about you and me, but all of us, together” ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review). From the mind of Chuck Wendig comes “a magnum opus. And a teenage girl who may be the world’s last hope. This, of course, leads to Chuck Wendig’s Wanderers, the latest (and an instant classic) entry in the apocalyptic novel category.Ī decadent rock star. Coming up closer to our times, there’s the quiet, almost humane apocalypse of George Stewart’s Earth Abides, and of course, the big elephant in the room, the codifier of the Epic Apocalyptic novel, Stephen King’s The Stand as well as Swan Song by Robert R. Going forward several centuries, Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (1826) specifies a plague as the cause of humanity’s downfall. The apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic novel…one of the mainstays of Science Fiction for almost as long as the genre has been around and before, with some consideration given to the Epic of Gilgamesh as an apocalyptic epic.

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