Apocalypticon

Name: Apocalypticon
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Clayton Smith
ISBN: 9781515985556

Author: Clayton Smith

Series: Apocalypticon #1

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 13 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/15/2016

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Three years have passed since the Jamaicans caused the apocalypse, and things in post-Armageddon Chicago have settled into a new kind of normal. Unfortunately, that "normal" includes collapsing skyscrapers, bands of bloodthirsty maniacs, and a dwindling cache of survival supplies. After watching his family, friends, and most of the non-sadistic elements of society crumble around him, Patrick decides it's time to cross one last item off his bucket list.

He's going to Disney World.

This hilarious, heartfelt, gut-wrenching odyssey through post-apocalyptic America is a pilgrimage peppered with peril, as fellow survivors Patrick and Ben encounter a slew of odd characters, from zombie politicians and deranged survivalists to a milky-eyed oracle who doesn't have a lot of good news. Plus, it looks like Patrick may be hiding the real reason for their mission to the Magic Kingdom . . .

About Clayton Smith

Clayton Smith is the author of the novels Apocalypticon, Anomaly Flats, Na Akua, and Mabel Gray and the Wizard Who Swallowed the Sun, as well as the short story collections It Came from Anomaly Flats and Pants on Fire: A Collection of Lies. His short stories have been featured in Write City Magazine, Dumb White Husband, and Canyon Voices. He is cofounder of Dapper Press and a lecturer in the Business & Entrepreneurship Department at Columbia College Chicago.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melania 🍒 on February 27, 2018

3,35/5 This is so much better than I expected. Of course, it's not a modern classic in the making, but is has its perks. The main characters are likeable after you get used to them and by the end of the book I really liked those guys. Smith has imagination and humor and even if there are some big-ass......more

Goodreads review by Amy on August 23, 2016

This is a fun and adventurous story about 2 guys who, since they've run out of food 5 years post-apocalpyse, decide that they have nothing better to do than take a road trip to Disneyworld. The main character, Patrick, reminds me of a less-socially-awkward Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory. I think i......more

Goodreads review by Jason on October 15, 2015

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.) Clayton Smith's Apocalypticon is incredibly easy to summarize -- it's what a post-apocalyptic novel would l......more

Goodreads review by Lori on December 29, 2015

Read 7/21/14 - 7/23/14 4 Stars - Strongly Recommended to those who don't mind laughing in the face of the apocalypse Pages: 338 Publisher: Dapper Press Released: January 2014 A post-apocalyptic novel that makes fun of itself and every book or film that's ever come before it? Uh, yes please! Clayton Smith......more

Goodreads review by Shana on March 18, 2014

If the world came to an end, and I decided that I needed to go an adventure... oh let's say, to Disney World... I'd want to take that adventure with Patrick and Ben! We know little about what their relationship was pre "M-Day" (that's the day that the Jamaicans released their flying monkey look-alik......more