![]() The walkers, you see, are just the beginning, and what follows is an American epic with the soul of the nation-and the world-at stake. In the midst of this mysterious outbreak come a series of characters-a disgraced CDC official, a woman who built the world’s most sophisticated artificial intelligence, a rock star, a preacher on the verge of crisis and the young girl’s older sister-who all have roles to play in unraveling the mystery of what’s to come. ![]() She is the beginning of an apparent epidemic of “sleepwalkers” that form a flock who walk-expressionlessly and painlessly-across the United States. ![]() Her sister tries to stop her, then her father, then EMTs and police, but still she walks. The story begins with a young girl walking out of her house one morning with no shoes or supplies. With Wanderers, Chuck Wendig has mastered it. Very few authors can pull it off, and even fewer can master it. ![]() In precise and deliberate prose, you can explain why and how your fictional world is ending, but writing something that really conjures the end-with the many cogs in the machine of civilization that have to break down, and the consequences of the failure of each one-is much harder, particularly if you’d like to do it with heart and thrills and something resembling a thesis statement about the human condition. It’s not easy to write the end of the world. ![]()
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