Here is a new kind of End of The World story you can't miss.
This is a dystopian, end-of-the-world, Chosen One story. Right? Yes! A curious one.
Canadian Will in Ontario has been having these dreams of the end of the world and before he can convince anyone to believe in him all starts. He leaves Ontario in search of his wife who is in Florida on a work trip. They were on the phone when it all started, earthquakes, bombs, deadly radiation.
Will faces many obstacles and a new pos apocalyptic reality, not just religious fanatics following a new heaven but a new type of zombies and ghosts... and more. It doesn't matter what they are, most of them are hunting. Awesome revelation and plot twist. All Will wants is to reach his wife in a time-sensitive, high-stakes survival journey with a lot of complex plot twists. I liked the beginning more than after the 70% but it was an interesting read .
From Amazon:
"In this harrowing tale of humanity well past the brink of insanity, Canadian author J. F. Bloomfield takes the reader on a dangerous adventure through the corpse of a world that went horribly wrong. Starting off unprepared and deathly afraid, the main character, Will, just barely makes it underground with some hiking and camping gear and has to plan his journey south into the remnants of the coastal United States to find his wife, who was on a company sales trip to Florida when the bombs fell.
What awaits him down the coast is nothing short of soul-rending. The freaks of nature and anomalies of physics take their toll and change both his body and his mind in disturbing ways. Who is he now? Will his wife recognize him anymore?
It becomes obvious to him that every part of the country was hit by a different experimental bomb that pushed the boundaries of what was possible to predict. What else would he find?
The author invites you to join him on this complex mission to discover who we really are when no concept goes unspoiled by the wildest impossibilities."
Author bio:
Author of mind-bending Sci-fi, Dystopia and other genres that beg thrilling questions. J.F. Bloomfield has over 35 books he needs to write including themes like Cyberpunk, Alternate History, Space Exploration, Planetary Expedition, Lost Biomes on Earth, Transhumanism, Futurism and many more!
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What the author has to say:
"My Frustrating Relationship with The Sci-Fi Genre"
"There are three fundamental pillars to a good sci-fi story in my eyes. I call them the three C’s. They are Characters, Concept, and Conciseness.
The Characters:
They have to be well developed and consistent. If they are not, there has to be a good reason written clearly at the time that they depart from their consistent behavior. I’ve read too many stories where the main character makes sudden friends with their personal enemy because it is convenient for the plot. Too many others where the character experiences a traumatic event and simply continues on laughing and joking. There is never an accounting of their mental health or a reckoning of their sanity in stories like these. They are impossibly strong, and it makes them less relatable.
The Concept:
It has to be daring, crazy, and challenging. There are far too many sci-fi stories which can be reduced to a romance novel in space or a murder mystery in space. There isn’t anything inherently wrong with those stories, but they should be put in the romance and mystery categories respectively. Space is not science fiction. It is just as real as the Eiffel tower. If you can have a romance story in Paris, you can have it on a space station. Changing locations doesn’t change genre.
Science fiction is the only genre that is treated with such disrespect. It ends up being the garbage receptacle for all the stories that would not be competitive in the genre that they actually belong to. So, science fiction fans are supposed to eat it up simply because it happens in space. Then there are marketers who will market the story in sci-fi terms to sci-fi people to make it seem like it’s more than that. There are a great many people who make money wasting your time on yet another book that doesn’t have the guts to be really sci-fi.
On Conciseness:
Sci-fi and Fantasy both have an inherent problem with length. This is because it is easy to sing the praises of a story that is six books long when compared to a single-book story. There is just more material to praise. The incentive is that everyone writes super-series over three books long. Critics who are critical of the first book (and thus did not read the other five books) can be told that the first book is bad, but books two and three start to get good and book four is immaculate.
Poor writing is poor writing. If it takes your story four books to get good, then you failed as a writer in communicating your story. You aren’t allowed to shift blame on the reader by saying, “Well, did you make it to book four? You’re not allowed to judge my entire series until you do.” Conciseness is a lost art form, practiced by very few and contraindicated by reviews. But long unapproachable series becoming the norm makes the whole genre unapproachable.
Thanks for listening! I would love to hear other opinions on this.
Sincerely,
J.F. Bloomfield"
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