The Apocalypse Seven
The Apocalypse Seven by Gene Doucette, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2021, is a 432-page work of fiction that blends elements of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. The story follows Touré, a young coder in Cambridge, who wakes up to find himself seemingly alone in a city transformed overnight. As he encounters other disoriented survivors, they grapple with the bizarre changes around them, including overgrown vegetation and wild animals roaming the streets, leading them to label their experience as the “whateverpocalypse.”
Readers will find a narrative that explores the strange and unsettling circumstances faced by the self-styled Apocalypse Seven, a group of survivors navigating a world filled with unpredictable weather and mysterious threats. As they confront their new reality armed with curiosity and makeshift weapons, the story delves into themes of survival and the unknown. This edition invites readers to experience a unique blend of action and adventure set against an apocalyptic backdrop, with a focus on the characters’ evolving dynamics and challenges.
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Scott Sigler called Doucette’s cozy apocalypse story, “entertaining as hell.” Come see how the world ends, not with a bang, but a whatever . . .
The whateverpocalypse. That’s what Touré, a twenty-something Cambridge coder, calls it after waking up one morning to find himself seemingly the only person left in the city. Once he finds Robbie and Carol, two equally disoriented Harvard freshmen, he realizes he isn’t alone, but the name sticks: Whateverpocalypse. But it doesn’t explain where everyone went. It doesn’t explain how the city became overgrown with vegetation in the space of a night. Or how wild animals with no fear of humans came to roam the streets.
Add freakish weather to the mix, swings of temperature that spawn tornadoes one minute and snowstorms the next, and it seems things can’t get much weirder. Yet even as a handful of new survivors appear–Paul, a preacher as quick with a gun as a Bible verse; Win, a young professional with a horse; Bethany, a thirteen-year-old juvenile delinquent; and Ananda, an MIT astrophysics adjunct–life in Cambridge, Massachusetts gets stranger and stranger.
The self-styled Apocalypse Seven are tired of questions with no answers. Tired of being hunted by things seen and unseen. Now, armed with curiosity, desperation, a shotgun, and a bow, they become the hunters. And that’s when things truly get weird.
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