A Tidy Armageddon, BH Panhuyzen
A Tidy Armageddon, BH Panhuyzen
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A Tidy Armageddon

Author: BH Panhuyzen

Narrator: Brianne Tucker

Unabridged: 15 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 07/25/2023


Synopsis

“Samuel Beckett meets Stephen King in an absurd and eerie coming-of-end tale that should serve as some sort of warning.”— Peter Darbyshire, author of Has the World Ended Yet? “This book is the furthest apocalypse from Mad Max that you can get. Instead, it’s a transfixing and brilliant attack on consumerism and, in a way, humanity’s inability to look before we leap…”— Post Apocalyptic Media The world is transformed into what looks like a massive warehouse overnight, and the result is a suspenseful and action-rich tale as humanity is forced to face the scale of its consumption A provocative eco-novel featuring an apocalypse like no other, A Tidy Armageddon describes the current world transformed. Civilization has been dismantled by an unknown hand and reassembled into a vast maze of blocks, each comprised of a single item, packed Tetris-style and stacked nine storeys tall: watering cans, electrical transformers, fake Christmas trees, helicopters, plastic spoons, and everything else human culture has ever produced. In rich, descriptive prose shattered by moments of suspense and action, the novel chronicles the journey of a diverse group of soldiers led by Elsie Sharpcot, a Cree sergeant and Afghanistan vet, who must reconcile a desperate hunt for her daughter with the responsibility to safeguard the recruits under her command. Passing with fear and wonder through this mausoleum of human excess, provisioning themselves from its treasures while searching for those they love, this band of misfits amalgamates into their own dysfunctional family as they race to outrun the approaching winter.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Janelle on May 11, 2023

A group of Canadian soldiers are ordered into a bunker. When they emerge a few weeks later into a giant maze, it’s walls are made of stuff eg plastic spoons all gathered together, blocks of machinery, cans of soup, and later they come across helicopters, skyscrapers, telephones, alarm clocks etc etc......more

Goodreads review by Kate Victoria on March 04, 2023

I loved loved loved this story, but the ending left me desperate for answers!!! The detail of the scenes (especially walking through the blocks of items), the characters, and the plot were fantastic and captivating. Once you start reading, it’s definitely hard to stop. Nothing terribly horrifying or......more

Goodreads review by johnny on February 06, 2023

after earth has been ultimately destroyed, a group of diverse misfit soldiers band together to search for useful objects as well as meaning within the desolate landscape. elsie sharpcot is a cree woman who has dealt with extreme anti-indigenous rhetoric put forth by the united states military. now t......more

Goodreads review by Stitching on February 27, 2023

The first, I want to say, about 150 pages were great, engaging and sometimes really quite anxiogenic (the idea of walking between stories high towers of just stuff organized in categories and holding together in an unknowable way just feels so claustrophobic even for someone who doesn’t struggle wit......more

Goodreads review by Emily on July 17, 2023

This was tough. I personally read a lot of rambling work that has not a ton of plot progression and much more focus on characters and feelings. So I’m not immediately adverse to that. However, I think one of the major reasons people read scifi/dystopian work is for plot? Yes? This had no real progre......more