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Red State Earth by Travis J. I. Corcoran

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Publishes May 11, 2027

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A saga of families, strife, and hard-fought victory as Texans and Texas immigrants fight to hold onto what civilization they can after the devastation of a massive world war. A prequel to Red State Mars.

Five Families. One Shattered Nation.

World War III devastated Earth. Those who died in the Five Day War had it easy—it was the survivors who dug out of the rubble only to face starvation, chaos, and bandit gangs who had to live through hell. In Texas and across the American South, five families approach survival and rebuilding from scratch. The Newcastles of Texas fall back on ranching and community leadership to organize and defend allies.

The Atkinses out of the Appalachians employ raw violence, while the Hollinses work their political wiles to help rebuild government. Meanwhile, the newcomer Mackenzies use repurposed tech to protect their trading convoys.

The allied forces of civilization must face outlaw gangs and political upstarts who want to carve new empires out of the American heartland. From the space launch facilities on the Gulf Coast to the oil fields of the Texas Panhandle, free men fight to rebuild and reestablish civilization. Echoing post-apocalypse survival sagas such as Lucifer's Hammer and The Postman, Corcoran’s vast chronicle brings to life a broken land where hardened survivors fight to rebuild a shattered America.

ISBN: 9798901160503
Publication date: May 11, 2027

Reviews and Endorsements

“Tough-as-nails pioneer families and a great sci-fi war story. Loved it.”
—Larry Correia, New York Times best-selling author of American Paladin and Monster Hunter International

“Just plain cool.”
—Kurt Schlichter, author of People's Republic and American Warlord

“I was caught up in the squabbles of those rugged individualists, and hoping they'd pull together in time.”
—Karl K. Gallagher, author of the Torchship Trilogy

“Summoning tactical acumen, bloody-minded heroics, bug-nutty creativity, and sheer audacity, the citizens of the Nine Cities of Mars mount an astonishing resistance that brings the Earth's two great superpowers to loggerheads and births a new civilization in the bargain.”
—J. Daniel Sawyer, best-selling author of When She Was Gone on Red State Mars

“Engineering and explosions—everything I expect and love in a Corcoran science fiction adventure!”
—Daniel Humphreys, author Z-Day series

“What you'd get if you cross-pollinated David Drake and Neal Stephenson, but Corcoran has tapped into a vein entirely his own—part hard science, part political saga, and all high-octane imagination.”
—Rob Kroese, author of Mercury Falls

About the Author

Travis J.I. Corcoran is the author of Red State Mars and its prequel, Red State Earth, for Ark Press. Corcoran's debut novel, The Powers of the Earth, and its follow-up, Causes of Separation, won the Prometheus Award for best novel two years running. He is also the author of hugely popular homesteading manual Escape the City. Corcoran resides with his wife and dogs on a 56-acre farm in New Hampshire, where he writes code, raises goats and pigs, and tinkers with cantankerous machinery, while also serving as a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.