What Came After eBook Jon Clinch Sam Winston
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Now includes Chapter One of INTO THE SILENT WORLD, the sequel to the bestseller WHAT CAME AFTER.
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The apocalypse doesn't need plagues or zombies or bombs. All it needs is us.
Set in the very near future, WHAT CAME AFTER takes place in a too-credible third-world America that's been hijacked by corporations in the service of the wealthy. The Federal government has collapsed, health care is inaccessible, and private armies keep order. The upper class is concentrated in the cities, while the middle class—decimated by disease and poisoned by genetically engineered foods—labors on in a handful of desolate Empowerment Zones.
One man, Henry Weller, has had enough. With his five-year-old daughter going blind, he sets out across a ruined America to find her the health care she deserves. He'll have to face a strange and hostile world—from the financial districts of a walled New York to the armed camp of Washington, DC—but if he's successful, his daughter might see again.
And along the way, a revolution might get started.
WHAT CAME AFTER is shaped by issues on everyone's mind right now poverty, corporate power, access to heath care, the outsourcing of government, parents' obligations to their children.
But at its core, it's a post-apocalyptic adventure in a desolate and treacherous world THE WIZARD OF OZ meets HEART OF DARKNESS, at the end of the American dream.
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From the critics
"Sometimes I just keep hearing about a book on social media and I get so curious, I seek out the book myself. Case in point Sam Winston’s extraordinary WHAT CAME AFTER, an e-book about the end of the world. I started reading after dinner and didn’t stop until I finished. This is no ordinary book. Character-driven, haunting, and gorgeously written, I think it’s a classic."
— Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of PICTURES OF YOU.
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WHAT CAME AFTER is the bestseller written by Jon Clinch (THE THIEF OF AUSCHWITZ, FINN, KINGS OF THE EARTH) under his pen name, Sam Winston.
What Came After eBook Jon Clinch Sam Winston
I had no idea that this book, picked up from its cover description, would be among the best post-end-of-civilization books I'd read in years. As a published novelist myself, I find Winston to be a serious writer, a fine crafter of words, pacing, setting, suspense, and especially character. In particular, the women--the courageous and resourceful mother, Liz, and the equally courageous and even more resourceful Janey--are memorable, as is the brilliant researcher Dr. Patel and the self-sacrificing and unnamed mother of the raging "primitives'" leader. In fact, this is an unexpectedly fine work of literature and a pleasure to read. I hope Mr. Winston's works will soon become better known, and--yoohoo, Sam Winston--let's have some more of his novels.Product details
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What Came After eBook Jon Clinch Sam Winston Reviews
I just finished this book on my , and I rather wish I'd bought it in 3D so I could lend to others who still read off paper. This is a well-written book about what might come after if things keep on the way they're going. Post-apocalyptic fiction is a special interest of mine, and Winston doesn't disappoint. His main characters, while not fully fleshed, are realistic and engaging. His writing is clear and clean, and the book drew me in and didn't let go. I actually thought this was a YA novel while I was reading it, since I gather good editing is mostly reserved for YA work these days, and this book reads like text that has been properly reviewed and polished. The age of the protagonist is, I think, the only potential barrier to this appealing to a YA market. The plot is exactly the sort of thing being done these days for young adults. (I love YA fiction as well as post-apocalyptic stuff.)
My real disappointment came when I finished the book and went looking for more. There are no more novels, only two books of short stories set in the same universe, and these are available only electronically. I hope this means that I've caught this promising author at the beginning of his career and that I need to just wait a bit for more full-length reading pleasure. He's got an eye that I appreciate and his writing is very pleasing to my reader's ear.
Please, Sam. Write more! -)
About 50 years in the future, the government as we know it no longer exists, the pharmaceutical companies own everything, and nature took what PharmAgra didn't want. The rich got richer, the poor got poorer and the sick dropped dead. Anderson Carmichael just wants a car. Henry Weller wants his daughter's vision. Carmichael's got the ultimate bargaining chip; access to medical care. The dystopian story of how far a father will go to see his child healthy.
There were holes in the story...Little tidbits that weren't explained but maybe should have been. The Great Dying--Clues are dropped through out the story, one can safely assume mutated food, made people sick, less safely assume PharmAgra may have been responsible for it? but most definitely knew how to un-mutate the food. Branding--Little Microchips implanted in a necks, used to identify people. If you have a brand, you're a someone. If you don't, you live in the Zone. But what qualifies someone for a brand, which brand? and when are they implanted?
But the plot was interesting enough and I didn't mind the cliff hanger ending...I noticed a nicely drawn parallel between the first sentence and the last, and I love story ideas that make you think. And I can't help but notice parallels between the fictional future Sam Winston thought up, and the US's currently precarious economic standing. People are worrying about the affordability of food and people who can afford it are stopping to wonder about what's in the food they're so eager to buy.
"What Came After" by Jon Clinch and Sam Winston is well written, with characters and situations that draw you into the story and refuse to let you go. This is the first book in a series and I will definitely read the next one, "Into the Silent World," because the author (Sam Winston is the pen name of award winning author Jon Clinch) knows how to do a book series the right way. By that, I mean he gives us a complete story, then adds just enough of a teaser to get us to want to read the next one.
Many serial books leave me feeling cheated since the writers end them too abruptly with no thought of finishing out a story line. I've literally come across books that ended in the middle of a sentence, leaving me angry and frustrated. Cliff-hangars work in TV but leave me cold in books and when I come across one I refuse to buy any more of that author's books.
Sam Winston/Jon Clinch does not do that. He gives fair value and an entertaining tale for your dollars.
Narrative taking place in the northeastern US after a societal crash.
From the portion I read, it seems evil corporations have genetically modified crops to the point that they became poisonous thus killing most people and many animals. Now, the downtrodden masses, such as they are, live in rural Empowerment Zones growing crops they can't eat while the wealthy live in cities believing themselves superior to the masses. Crops have to be sent to the evil corporation for processing to make them edible.
The story starts with Anderson Carmichael (wealthy banker) and his son driving an SUV though the Empowerment zone between New York and Boston. The Hummer breaks down and to the surprise of the banker a farm mechanic (Henry Weller) is capable of fixing it. He has Mrs Weller take two Polariod (yes Polariod) shots, writes IOU on one for them and leaves.
Henry Weller then takes his young daughter, who is blind from eating unprocessed food, and starts walking to New York to collect on the IOU to get her eyes fixed. This could possibly be interesting, but the writing style was so off for me that I couldn't continue.
I had no idea that this book, picked up from its cover description, would be among the best post-end-of-civilization books I'd read in years. As a published novelist myself, I find Winston to be a serious writer, a fine crafter of words, pacing, setting, suspense, and especially character. In particular, the women--the courageous and resourceful mother, Liz, and the equally courageous and even more resourceful Janey--are memorable, as is the brilliant researcher Dr. Patel and the self-sacrificing and unnamed mother of the raging "primitives'" leader. In fact, this is an unexpectedly fine work of literature and a pleasure to read. I hope Mr. Winston's works will soon become better known, and--yoohoo, Sam Winston--let's have some more of his novels.
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