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After the Revolution: The Entire Book

August 2, 2021·11 hr 57 min·5 clips

Manny escorts a British journalist through a Texas warzone, dodging potholes and a bloated dog corpse.

Richardson, Republic of Texas, 2070. The book opens in a damaged country, with Manny, Reggie, an old Toyota, and one ugly pothole doing the worldbuilding before anyone can explain it. Everything feels worn out. The road scene has the grim joke of a place where bad infrastructure, foreign witnesses, and survival logistics all share the same ride. Then Sasha gets pulled into the center of things. After she helps during an emergency, Dr. Brandt praises her for having only three semesters of pre-medical coursework. Around here, that almost counts as medicine. Trained people are scarce, so a life that stalled out somewhere else suddenly becomes useful. Helen's pride hits Sasha hard. The older woman's smile gives her a kind of approval she has not gotten from her own mother, and the moment barely has time to land before Dr. Brandt needs more from her. He puts Sasha on special duty and asks what she knows about the people of the road, a group her schooling has barely bothered to understand. Her answer comes from inherited contempt. Sasha repeats her father's disgust toward posthumans, filtered through school and Wasteland Warriors. Dr. Brandt almost likes it. His serious face turns kind, which feels worse than a lecture. The job is practical. A road group sent emissaries into Plano before the city fell, and now they are trapped inside the chaos. Video fragments hang over the briefing. Sasha remembers grainy Wasteland Warriors images and an attack on an Aegis vehicle, part entertainment, part political lesson. The excerpt keeps narrowing the frame. Damaged roads and emergency medicine give way to war, ideology, and the ugly ways a young person learns whose lives count.

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A grimy 2070 survival story where bad roads, field medicine, faith, and posthuman rumor start closing in.

After the Revolution: The Entire Book opens in the Republic of Texas in 2070, with bad roads, armed trucks, a city recently fallen, and people working with whatever training they can claim.

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If you want a dystopia that reads like a field report with a pulse.

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