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Post-Apocalyptic Series Science Fiction

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Editorial


The NUKE Brothers

  • "The NUKE Brothers" by Scott C. Carr
    "See James Kloiber as 'Zeph' in the brand new teaser poster!"


Featured Novel

  • "Empty Cities of the Full Moon" by Howard V. Hendrix
    "Half a dozen bright points of light were flashing into view now, from around the other side of the Earth. Unlike fireworks, those lights were staying on, not guttering and dying."

    Read AFM's Q&A with author Howard V. Hendrix, and an excerpt from his novel Empty Cities of the Full Moon.


Short Fiction

  • "Survival" by Karen Carpenter
    "The four beings from the new and improved human race, marched procession-like through the storm, towards the compound. Jonathan turned to see the old brown sedan, following doggedly behind."

  • "Last Rose In A Desert Garden" by Jonas Kyratzes
    In Memory of Douglas Adams (1952--2001)
    "One day, a long time after the day the flames came, the sky started crying, and it wept for the earth and all its creatures for more than a year."

  • "The Life I Lead" by "Ed"
    "The dead-who once walked and talked and laughed and loved and now are just dead. The dead who I will one day join, in a place that has to be better than this."

  • "Convergence on a Panoptic Newtonian: The Interstices of Heaven" by Forrest Aguirre
    " The panoptic gaze of God, glory in all its omniscience, shone down on them. An immense eye, larger than the ship's end windows, stared down over their world. They had, indeed, arrived."


Series

  • "Wasteland Blues" by Andrew Conry-Murray and Scott C. Carr
    [Part Four] -- "It was Leggy, reclined in his wheelchair, hanging on for dear life, long hair and singed clothing billowing in the wind. And Derek was behind him, gripping the chair by its rusty handles, leaning forward and pushing, running, charging for all he was worth."

  • "Hot Dog and Crazy" by Christopher Wagner
    [Contains Explicit Violence and Mature Content --Ed]
    [Part Four -- Final Chapter] -- ""That's more like it!" he said. He had a gun in each hand. "One for each of you fucks.""

  • "To Drive the Cold Winter Away" by G. W. Thomas
    [Part Four] -- "What difference to me? Perhaps Hart would have me killed just as soon as I arrived? But at the time I figured my chances were better with Jack than with the Westies."


Comics

  • "The Scavengers" by Fernando Ruiz
    "The only thing more menacing than a desperate, militaristic alien from Alpha Centauri is a GROUP of them...and that's just what visiting Rigellan Darvin Brill finds himself encountering in this issue's installment of The Scavengers!"

  • "Synwulfe: Slow Night" -- An original Synwulfe color strip by S.C. Ringgenberg and John Pierard
    "EARTHSIDE, The Hole In the Wall Cantina, 2:32 AM"

  • "D-Day For Earth" by S.C. Ringgenberg
    "A death-like hush fell over the asembled multitudes--as a round portal slid open and a dark-visored stranger stepped out to address the crowd."


NEXT ISSUE:

Finally, the third installment of Gregg Delcurla's The Man Who Sold Marionettes; 6 Days in December; More of The Scavengers, by Fernando Ruiz; An NUKE Brothers update; and more!!!


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