Adventures in the apocalyptic style

Preppers and the end of everything

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  • Published 20241105
  • ISBN: 978-1-923213-01-2
  • Extent: 196 pp
  • Paperback, ebook, PDF

‘THE MACHINES ARE gonna fail. Then the system’s gonna fail. Then: survival. Who has the ability to survive. That’s the game.’

It’s the early 1970s. Lewis Medlock (played by a young Burt Reynolds, strapping and hirsute under a black leather vest) adjusts his hunting bow. Ed Gentry (a young Jon Voight) finishes his can of beer, cracks open another and sits back in their canoe.

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Tom Doig

Tom Doig is a non-­fiction author and a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Queensland. He is working on a book about...

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