

Sure, there are still asshats who steal from those who work to rebuild and survive, but there are others who feed the city, lift others up and come together to create something new. Some you’ll admire, others you’ll despise, but you’ll also be in awe of man’s will to overcome and survive. You’ll discover heroes and villains along the way. The world closely mirrors are own, particularly pre-apocalypse, from political stressors to a global pandemic to the breakthrough advances in nano & AI technologies. We see Pete again, hear Matthew’s inner thoughts, and learn both Shana and Black Storm’s secrets. The tale that unfolds shares multiple points of view from all around the United States as the story moves us forward and shares the horrors that have and are unfolding. Meanwhile, Creel is facing his own difficulties and Black Swarm is changing…. Black Swarm is among them and has been speaking to Shana. Benji, Shana, Murray and others have started a community and are rebuilding after the pandemic wiped out much of the world. The Wanderers and their shepherds have settled in Ouray. Because the only way to survive the end of the world is together.

who imagined the apocalypse.Īgainst these threats, Benji, Marcy, Shana, and the rest have only one hope: one another. And in the very heart of Ouray, the most powerful survivor of all is plotting its own vision for the new world: Black Swan, the A.I. The forces of cruelty and brutality are amassing under the leadership of self-proclaimed president Ed Creel. Among them are Benji, the scientist struggling through grief to lead the town Marcy, the former police officer who wants only to look after the people she loves and Shana, the teenage girl who became the first shepherd-and an unlikely hero whose courage will be needed again.īecause the people of Ouray are not the only survivors, and the world they are building is fragile. The survivors, sleepwalkers and shepherds alike, have a dream of rebuilding human society. Because the sleepwalking epidemic was only the first in a chain of events that led to the end of the world-and the birth of a new one. Their secret destination: Ouray, a small town in Colorado that would become one of the last outposts of civilization.

They were followed on their quest by the shepherds: friends and family who gave up everything to protect them. Five years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to sleepwalk across the country to a destination only they knew.
