{"product_id":"after-the-collapse-sarah-bennett-9798257065606","title":"After the Collapse: A Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Survival Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eYears after cascading satellite failures, cyberwar retaliation, and global grid collapse destroyed the connected world, scattered settlements survive on salvaged turbines, rationed batteries, and the stubborn refusal to give up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarcus Hale was a systems engineer who helped maintain the orbital infrastructure before it failed. Now he fixes wind turbines in a settlement called Windfall, carrying guilt for the vulnerabilities he identified and never repaired. When a scavenging run into a dead city uncovers a sealed underground data vault, Marcus discovers intact schematics for a distributed communication network, a mesh system designed to reconnect settlements without the centralised control that caused the collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe blueprints include his own pre-collapse design work. Someone completed his theoretical framework after the fall. Someone sealed it in the dark and walked away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebuilding connectivity could restore medicine, agriculture forecasting, and coordinated climate response. It could save thousands of lives. But it could also attract the attention of the Iron Covenant, a militant movement that believes technological infrastructure caused the extinction cascades and must never be rebuilt. And the Opportunist traders who see the schematics as the most valuable commodity since the collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarcus faces an impossible choice: destroy the vault and preserve fragmentation, or activate a system that could unite a broken world, or ignite a war over who controls it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a fortified militia closing in, a fractured settlement behind him, and the blood of an ally on his hands, Marcus must decide whether the tools that failed humanity deserve a second chance, and whether the safeguards he builds into the system are enough to prevent history from repeating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter the Collapse\u003c\/i\u003e is a grounded, high-tension dystopian science fiction novel about rebuilding versus repeating, decentralised governance versus authoritarian control, and whether infrastructure empowers or dominates, depending not on architecture, but on who holds the keys.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook 2 in The Systems of Survival series. Each book stands alone.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers who loved the political tension of \u003ci\u003eStation Eleven\u003c\/i\u003e, the survival engineering of \u003ci\u003eThe Martian\u003c\/i\u003e, and the systemic worldbuilding of \u003ci\u003eThe Ministry for the Future\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Bennett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798257065606\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.95d","brand":"Sarah Bennett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874693558527,"sku":"9798257065606","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/after-the-collapse-sarah-bennett-9798257065606","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}