Red Sails in the Fallout

Dungeons & Dragons: Gamma World, Book 2

By: Paul Kidd

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

In the fall of 2012, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, embarked on a series of high-energy experiments. No one knows exactly what went wrong, but in the blink of an eye, thousands of possible universes all condensed into a single reality....

Between a desert and a dried up sea lies the town of Watering Hole, the only oasis for miles and the home of our intrepid heroes Shaani and Xoota. After some rather harrowing adventures in the desert, they are followed home by a swarm of empathic earwigs. As if a psychic bug infestation weren't enough, the town's water supply has suddenly died up. Where there was once fresh water to spare, there is only a trickle of brackish sludge. Theorizing that the water came from a source beyond the desert, Shaani proposes an expedition to re-establish the town's water supply. Xoota, of course, is voted to go with her. Crossing the desert has never been done - and with water in short supply, the task seems impossible. But the ever-helpful Shanni appeals to the town patron Benek, and his love of cryogenically frozen brides, to back the project. What follows is the adventure of a thousand lifetimes.

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Good Gamma World novel

Captures Gamma World well, and the 7th edition Easter eggs were fun. Narrator makes a good story even better.

Fun Adventure and Great Story!

The characters are easy to befriend and the story is full of adventure and excitement! Paul Kidd has a Fantastic imagination and Amanda Carlin did an extraordinary job bringing it to life. Wonderful!

More Gamma World stories like this please!

Very well written. The narrator really brought out the characters. The story was very interesting, I don’t know why there aren’t more gamma world books, it’s a very interesting world setting, depicted in both books.

WOW! Amazing!

I don't write many reviews. But this story was amazing. The Characters just came to life.

Wacko!

This tale is set in a post-apocalyptic world that is reminiscent of the Road Warrior movies. The main characters, a tenacious lab rat genius and a quoll scavenger, both are females of their specie mutated by radiation to the point that they walk & talk like humans sprouting new mutations daily which only last for a few days at most. Battling giant savage Razorback pigs who want to eat them & take all their stuff, they must travel 1000s of miles to the coastline across the barren wastelands to save their town's water supply that has started turning to saltwater only to find themselves dragged into a plot to destroy all mutant kind and reclaim the Earth for humanity.
This might sound like a crazy story but you haven't even scratched the surface. This story is wacko but not terrible. I actually enjoyed it. Well narrated by Amanda Carlin, this is a story for all age levels, both educational and unpredictable. The Author, Paul Kidd, is never boring.