After the Shake is a pre- and post-apocalypse book with no zombies, vampires, or a gun-toting superhero who shoots all his neighbours to protect his food supply.
Can a regional plateau in Australia with a population of 200,000 survive after a global catastrophe isolates it from the rest of the world?
This epic novel spans the years before and after the calamity. It is a rational speculation of what might happen after a remote mountainous area is left
surrounded by devastation.
With little fuel, medicines, limited food, and no Internet, will they be able to reorganise their society in time to resist the takeover of a conservative opposition and the threat of violent suppression?
This story is told through the actions of two groups. The younger ones, who protest the avarice and duplicity of powerful global elites who threaten their future. Their innovative protests bring them into conflict with a corrupt establishment.
The other group of older people prepare for the inevitable calamity by moving away from cities and embracing renewable technologies.
Heat waves, fires, floods, cyclones, and storms caused by a warming planet affect everyone's lives and loves.
Will survivors find solutions by combining remnants of modern technology with traditional skills to prevent starvation and social collapse, and return to a world of hope? 350 0ages