Seeds

A Post-Apocalyptic Adventure

De: Chris Mandeville

Narrado por: Aaron Fors

Forty-eight years after a catastrophic solar event destroys all life and technology on the planet's surface, nineteen-year-old Reid Landers lives in the old NORAD facility deep inside Cheyenne Mountain with other descendants of Originals, barely subsisting on canned food and rats. For all they know they are the last hundred souls on Earth...until Reid meets the first stranger he has ever seen, a stranger with a grown apple. This catapults him on a journey to California to find seeds for his people, an adventure fraught with skin-carving pirates, twisted missionaries, and mercenaries on Rollerblades.

Even if Reid can outwit the despot leader of "Lost" Angeles and resist the siren's song of a beautiful con artist, there may not be any seeds left to find. And his people—including the woman he secretly loves—might not take him back. Audiobook performed by acclaimed actor and dialectologist Aaron Fors.

©2015 Chris Mandeville (P)2026 Chris Mandeville

Fantastic Narrator

Not only was the story engaging and full of development, but the voice actor for this story was fantastic. This was very well produced and did the story even more justice with the voices.

I would like to see a sequel to this story.

Vividly realized post-apocalyptic world

A vividly realized post-apocalyptic world, exciting quest and a harrowing plot with lots of quirky and interesting characters. A great read for anyone who enjoys post-apocalyptic fiction. The narration and voice acting are wonderful, glad I went with the audiobook for this one.

Wow!

Loved the story! So often post apocalyptic stories are disconnected from what came before. I loved the ties to history and what could happen in isolation.
The narration was fun. Great voices for each character.

An Apocalypse Story That Gets The Details Right

TLDR: this is just a great story with a frighteningly competent antagonist, powerful character moments, and an amazing narrator. If you're looking at the reviews to decide if you should read it, the answer is YES!

This book pulls in all my favorite parts of post-apocalyptic stories, except for cannibals. No cannibals here, I'm afraid. Other than that, it explores a variety of people and how they rebuilt, or attempted to rebuild, a semblance of society. All of this book was well done (prose, characters, plot, etc.), but what really stood out to me were the details of the world. The author doesn't beat you over the head with the worldbuilding, but clearly put a lot of time into getting the little things right.

For example, do you know what the biggest problem is for the people of this world? No, not cannibals, I told you that already. Vitamin C!

Okay, I might be overselling a little. The biggest problem was the lack of plants. Regardless, everything from the cause of the apocalypse, the details of nutrition, medical care, sailing, rubber degradation and more was clearly researched in depth before the writer set down the pen on this manuscript.

Then there's the narrator. He did an incredible job! Dozens and dozens of characters and accents and he managed to make EVERY SINGLE ONE sound different. There are times where I could be convinced they had a cast of actors working on this.

So seriously, check it out!