Afterland Desolate: Origin (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798274459044)

When the Grid fell, civilization crumbled -- but the machine still remembers. Ashwire is the Grid's ghost made flesh: stitched from fifty corpses, sighted by a red optic implant and armed with a barbed synapse prosthetic. He wakes into an Afterland of cult prophets, cannibal queens, and mechanized warlords who each see one promise in him -- salvation, a weapon, or a way to the throne.

Mama Grin rules the Gutlands by ritual hunger. Cindersaintpreaches purity through flame in Pyrahn. Queen Ida -- the Queen of Rust -- commands an army forged from scrap and crown; a monarch and warrior. A sentient obsidian android named Eidon walks beside Ashwire, and a mutated toad-scout known as Toadboy slips in and out of the shadows. And a terrifying assassin who will stop at nothing to complete her mission.

Afterland Desolate -- Origin is a savage, cinematic plunge into a world where faith and machine collide. If you love visceral, character-driven post-apocalyptic fiction with dark myth and a warrior at its center, step into the ash. Join the cult of the Afterland -- the prophecy is foretold.