The Harvest, Chuck Wendig
The Harvest, Chuck Wendig
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The Harvest

Author: Chuck Wendig

Narrator: Nick Podehl

Unabridged: 10 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 07/14/2015


Synopsis

Blood will water the corn...It’s been a year since the Saranyu flotilla fell from the sky, and life in the Heartland has changed. Gone are the Obligations and the Harvest Home festivals. In their place is a spate of dead towns, the former inhabitants forced into mechanical bodies to serve the Empyrean—and crush the Heartland.When Cael awakens from a Blightborn sleep, miles away from the world he remembers, he sets out across the Heartland to gather his friends for one last mission. As the mechanicals, a war flotilla, and a pack of feral Empyrean girls begin to close in on the Heartland, there isn’t much time to make their next move. But if they can uncover a secret weapon in time, Cael and his friends might just find themselves with the power to save the world—or destroy it—resting in their hands.

About Chuck Wendig

Chuck Wendig is the author of The Heartland Trilogy and the Atlanta Burns series for young adults, as well as numerous novels for adults and nonfiction books. He is also a game designer and screenwriter. Chuck lives in Pennsylvania with his family. He blogs at www.terribleminds.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Doug

4.5, rounded down. It's either a supremely confident or extraordinarily foolish playwright who opens a play with 10 pages of, essentially, people speaking in tongues. Even cutting that in half would seem to try the patience of most theatre goers. However, once past that hurdle, Hunter's play exhibits......more

Goodreads review by David

An engaging and chilling (at times) play about lost souls and faith. Really impressive.......more

Goodreads review by Avery

4/5 Oh Samuel Hunter and religious trauma......more


Quotes

Praise for Under the Empyrean Sky, Book One in The Heartland Trilogy:“This strong first installment rises above the usual dystopian fare thanks to Wendig’s knack for disturbing imagery and scorching prose.” Publishers Weekly“Wendig brilliantly tackles the big stuff—class, economics, identity, love, and social change—in a fast-paced tale that never once loses its grip on pure storytelling excitement. Well-played, Wendig. Well-played.” —Libba Bray, author of the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Going Bovine, and The Diviners“A tense dystopian tale made more strange and terrifying by its present-day implications.” BooklistUnder the Empyrean Sky is like a super-charged, genetically modified hybrid of The Grapes of Wrath and Star Wars. Wendig delivers a thrilling, fast-paced adventure set in a future agri-dystopia. Fascinating world building, engaging and deep characters, smooth, electric prose.” —John Hornor Jacobs, author of The Twelve-Fingered Boy“A thoroughly imagined environmental nightmare with taut pacing and compelling characters that will leave readers eager for more.” Kirkus Reviews“A lunatic, gene-spliced, biofueled thriller. Fear the corn.” —Tom Pollock, author of The City’s Son“An imaginative, page-turning adventure that will delight science fiction fans and have them impatiently waiting for the next installment.” —Joelle Charbonneau, author of The Testing Trilogy