Assault on Sunrise, Michael Shea
Assault on Sunrise, Michael Shea
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Assault on Sunrise

Author: Michael Shea

Narrator: Rodney Gardiner and Tom Taylorson

Unabridged: 6 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/13/2013

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

A fast-paced, cinematically explosive dystopian thriller by the author of The Extra Less than a hundred years in the future, pollution, economic disaster, and the rapacious greed of the corporate oligarchy have brought America to its knees and created dystopian urban nightmares, of which Los Angeles may be the worst. Curtis, Japh, and Jool are film extras, whowith the help of a couple of very gutsy womensurvived being anonymous players in a live-action film in which death on-screen meant death in real life. Surviving the shoot made them rich enough to escape the postapocalyptic hell that LA has become. But their survival was not what Panoply Studios CEO Val Margolian had in mind, especially since it cost his company millions. Now hes taking his revenge. After several plainclothes police are found dead in the former extras new home of Sunrise, California, the entire town is subjected to Margolians own invidious plan to punish them and make a fortune doing it. Margolian has created toxic, murderous, mechanical, wasp-like creatures to set upon the people of Sunrise, while his film crew captures the carnage in what promises to be the bloodiest live-action film yet. With their haven besieged by the deadly assault, the exiles from LA are faced with a grim task: defeat the creatures and take back their town and their freedom. Their story is a saga of courage and sacrifice in a world gone mad.

About Michael Shea

Michael Shea is the World Fantasy Award–winning author of Nifft the Lean and other novels. He has also written many short stories for major fantasy and science fiction magazines. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Robert on September 06, 2013

A follow-up (actually the second in a trilogy) to his previous novel, THE EXTRA, ASSAULT continues the world established in that book - in the future L.A., the poor and disadvantaged are weeded out by becoming fodder for studio blockbusters... in THE EXTRA, a giant spider invasion is filmed and the......more

Goodreads review by Carl on June 13, 2022

In the first book of this trilogy (sadly never to be completed because of Shea's untimely death), set in a bonkers near-future California were the lowest ranks of society can only hope to better their position by surviving spectacular bloodshed as extras in nightmare movie shoots, the action took pl......more

Goodreads review by Winterking on July 15, 2017

Val Margolian is back. Back to bring death once again to people for the sake of art. Art? Well in Val’s mind the death of extras is cinematic art and needs to be seen by all on the silver screen, or any screen available. This time he has used the Justice System to enact his form of revenge against t......more

Goodreads review by Brian on May 25, 2014

This is a book set in the world of _The Extra_ ; I thought this worked reasonably well as an action novel in a dystopian setting with science fiction/horror trappings. A town is sentenced by a corrupt government to facing assault by a Hollywood movie studio, which is allowed to kill townspeople in t......more

Goodreads review by Henry on December 14, 2013

Life is so worthless in the future, according to Michael Shea, that the extras in the epic movies of the future really die. Of course the public is easily sated. So a small town in the mountains is framed for murder and attacked by giant nanotech insects while being filmed by camera crews on anti-gr......more

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