Armageddon Daze – Act 1

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In the year 2025, the world we knew swiftly endedin an explosion of bloodshed as the hidden armies of vampires revealedthemselves in an attack of cataclysmic violence that slaughtered more than halfthe world's population in a fortnight. Fifteen bitter years of war havefollowed, the human survivors banding together to fight against theiroppressors and doing their best to rebuild some semblance of the fallensociety. America now is a wild and dangerous place to ekeout existence, rugged soldiers and frontiersmen salvaging the remains of theold world and developing new weapons and technology, adapting to the best oftheir ability. Humanity around the world has built fortified settlements in thehearts of the towns and cities that they didn't already blast with nuclear armamentsyears ago in desperation, while the vampires have laid claim to any territoriesthey can and grown their hives and nests underground to protect themselvesduring the daylight hours. Both sides have waged what seems will be an endlesswar upon one another, neither faction gaining much ground.But now the scales of balance in this war are tipping,for a horrifying new development has emerged and swiftly gained ground in thelast the dead are walking the land, attacking both human settlements andvampires nests alike. Sweeping north and west across the ruined country anddriving everyone relentlessly before them, they are spreading faster than canbe controlled by humanity. Violently poisonous to any vampires who mistakenly tryto consume them. And the bite of the infected will transform living humans intomindless killing machines like themselves.We follow the paths of Jack--a soldier who hasdecided to cross the country from Kentucky to Colorado and join the human forcesgathering there to take back the city of Denver from the vampires--and Micah,the mysterious figure who enters Jack's life and whose own agenda requires he quicklyreach Denver as well to try and convince his people that if they don't changetheir ways, their extinction looms from this new threat. And where didthese strange shambling creatures we can only call zombies come from? How canthey be stopped? And what is the desperate endgame of Doctor Andrew Reichart?-----Mashing multiple genres and styles into oneencompassing vision of the future, Armageddon Daze is the first part of aplanned trilogy that explores various post-apocalyptic tropes. Heavy doses ofcutting edge science-fiction, cyclopean horror, Old West gunslingers, and medicalthriller all come together in a bold new interpretation of legendary memes.These aren't the vampires and zombies you might expect, but are rooted inchilling scientific theories that could one day come true.If you love bloody vampire stories and goryzombies, I think you'll love this as well. Suitable for most teenagers and adults.Includes some mild romance but no graphic sexuality, and very little hardlanguage.This novel is serialized, and this is Act 1 of3. Act 1 contains about 45,500 words, and Act 2 will follow shortly.