American Apocalypse: The Beginning

2009 [Campbell, Steve (Stephen)] (1957-2012). American Apocalypse: The Beginning (Volume 1). By Nova [pseud.]. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press. Rev. as American Apocalypse: The Collapse Begins. By Nova [pseud.]. Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press, 2011. PSt

Dystopia. Mostly adventure, but the series traces the stages of an American version of the apocalypse brought on by the economic collapse of 2008. The second volume is American Apocalypse II: Refuge. By Nova [pseud.]. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2010 [Previously published unedited at http://the americanapocalypse.blogspot.com]; the third volume is American Apocalypse III: Migration. By Nova [pseud]. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2010 [Previously published unedited at http://the americanapocalypse.blogspot.com]. In both these volumes a small group of people struggle to survive, and others join them. In the fourth volume American Apocalypse IV: Rescue. By Nova [pseud.]. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2011 [Previously published unedited at http://the americanapocalypse.blogspot.com], recovery is beginning. A further volume is American Apocalypse: Wastelands. By Nova [pseud.]. Berkeley CA: Ulysses Press, 2011. This volume, like the others, is mostly adventure with a focus on those trying to survive and salvage something of what was once good in America. Related volumes include his The Chosen. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2011 [Previously published unedited at http://the americanapocalypse.blogspot.com], a survivalist novel, Gardener Summer [The cover adds Includes the Short Story, “The Lion.”]. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2011 [Originally published as an ebook in 2010], which is concerned with violent conflict in a section of a city in a collapsing U.S. in a world where China is economically dominant; and Gardener Winter. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2012, in which the protagonist is an old man and faces one more challenge.