Read Martin’s latest novel JACKSBORO HIGHWAY
After the collapse collection: Book 4
Luke came to Flockton after the post-collapse chaos had settled down.
Most people there were, well, wet. But peaceful. And as one of the six Federated Villages Flockton was set up for a bright future. That was just what he needed.
He’d had his fill both of war and being the guy who always stood up to scrotes and scumbags. He’d never do that again.
Luke had vowed never to forget how the self-righteous suits had punished him for protecting the innocent. In any case, ferals and villains were almost extinct now, so they said anyway.
Luke made a comfortable living supplying Flockton with wild meat and game. He thought he was content, life was as good as it was ever going to get. Then he met Hera. Best thing that ever happened to him.
So when the worst predator he’d ever encountered set up a casino, brothel, drug den and who knew what else just outside the trade zone and proceeded to threaten, beat up, fleece and extort the villagers, Luke wasn’t going to stick his sheepdog’s nose in again only to have it bitten off.
Not by the wolf but the ungrateful, deluded sheep. Let the so-called leaders sort it out.
After the collapse collection: Book 1
A motley crew of post-apocalypse survivors
A brute of a leader dragging them rapidly downwards
The solution should be staring at Mac from the mirror. It’s obvious to everyone else
After the collapse collection: Book 2
Three successful women realise the end of the world is permanent. And no-one’s coming to rescue them.
After the collapse collection: Book 3
A successful post-collapse village.
A leader ground down by the weight of his responsibility.
A usurper lacking even a single drop of self-doubt.
A long time ago in a land far, far away, there were
Five vengeful armies above,
Ten thousand innocents below,
And one burned out Wise Woman between them.
Short stories from just around the next corner.
Seventeen short stories. Some set in a post-collapse Britain. Others in or around mental hospitals. Many imagine futures that we Britons could soon be living in.
A top flight football match is referred by a robot while two formerly elite human refs are permitted to review only a handful of its decisions.
Nerdy sociology researcher Colin presents at a conference three months after almost every Briton’s life and future suddenly saw an enormous change for the better. The clue is ‘almost’.
Comfortably retired senior nurse Kate regards her wall of framed qualifications, awards, commendations and photographs with pride. A knock on the door threatens the lot when a memory she thought impenetrably sealed away is exhumed.
Mary is daydreaming on night guard duty, disapproving of Sarge’s bigoted and judgmental distrust of the unfortunates struggling on the failing post-collapse farm next door. Then one of their women taps on the door, begging for help.
A suicidal man receives a mysterious visit when he thought he’d hidden himself beyond discovery.
An undercover reporter infiltrates a high security mental hospital.
It’s Initiation Day for teenage boys in a warrior led village. But what they’ve been told is far from the truth.