The Zona (27 page)
Authors: Nathan Yocum
Tags: #wild west, #dystopia, #god, #speculative, #preachers, #Religion, #post-apocalyptic, #Western, #apocalypse, #Theocracy
Family Cursemas
, by Rod Kierkegaard, Jr. (
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When the wealthy Goodman family assembles for its gloomy annual holiday reunion in their divorced mother’s crumbling mansion, Holly Singletary is pressed into service to help cater the Christmas Eve dinner. When “the storm of the century” hits, the attendees have more than a blackout to worry about. Someone – or something – is killing off the Goodman family one by one.
Only Holly can solve the mystery of the murderer’s identity before her first-grade sweetheart becomes the final victim…
Shadow of a Dead Star
, by Michael Shean (
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As an agent of the Industrial Security Bureau, it is Thomas Walken’s duty to keep the city of Seattle free of black-market technology. But when a trio of living sex-dolls he has recently intercepted are stolen from custody, Walken finds himself seeking a great deal more than just contraband.
He will be forced to use his skills and preternatural instincts to try and keep his career, his freedom, and his life.
Worlds Burn Through
, by Vicki Keire. (
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Chloe Burke has nightmares of a world burned to ash and the strange boy who saves them both. Underneath the dreams lurks a deeply buried reality; Chloe and a handful of others are survivors of a decade old apocalypse that burned their home world to the ground.
Now their ancient enemies hunt them again. To keep their adopted world safe, Chloe must undergo a ritual of blood sacrifice that will have life-long consequences if she survives. Her lethal protector, Eliot Gray, must keep her alive long enough to do it.
Together they will uncover even more dangerous secrets buried in the past’s deepest, darkest ashes.
Bone Wires
, by Michael Shean (
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)
In the wasteland of commercial culture that is future America, police are operated not by government but by private companies. In Seattle, that role is filled by Civil Protection, and Daniel Gray is a detective in Homicide Solutions.
What used to be considered an important – even glamorous – department for public police is very different for the corporate species, and Gray finds himself stuck in a dead end job.
That is, until the Spine Thief arrives.
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Table of Contents
II. The Mojave Desert, Yucca, and Cibola
III. Topock, Crystal, and an account of savage peoples
IV. Eliphaz the Crusader comes to Havasu Parish
V. The river border provides a means of escape and contemplation
VI. That which occurred in Las Vegas
VII. The story of Terence and how he came to the Zona
VIII. The Tucson Colony, a home for lepers and madmen
IX. The southern walk near what was once Mexico
X. Lead is held captive by Eliphaz, as mentioned in the beginning
XI. Purgatory, the Zona’s representation of biblical punishment
XII. The Pima desert is a land of sand storms and rare sanctuary
XIII. A nomad treks through life and shortly leaves thereafter
XIV. An account of Lead’s second visit to Tucson and the violence done therein