The time has come to get the Faergrowe party started: THE WORST SURVIVE now has a release date, for July 26th 2026! I’ve also settled on using the original cover, which proved marginally most popular, though perhaps the neon will resurface for a special edition or some such thing…
For those who haven’t seen it, feast your eyes, and check out the eclectic blurb below!
An Englishman, a freedom fighter and a scientist walk into a bar.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one.
It’s 2042 and this Englishman, he’s been through the wars. Scully just wants a drink and enough coin for another round. He doesn’t care for New Industry politics, gang wars or science projects that could change the world.
But this bar’s special. It’s the sort of place people go to hire help with those things.
People promising a lot of drinking money.
The sort of money that might get your average lout tearing up the American Remnant, cussing from one violently hungover encounter to another, to hell with the consequences.
And the consequences of this particular encounter – they’re big. Soil-your-pants big.
See, there’s a mark who needs protecting, Laine Faergrowe, and he’s no typical scientist. And this ain’t like other jobs. With every man fighting for himself in this corrupt wasteland, here’s a guy offering a little piece of hope. Shame so many people want him dead.
Our Scully, drunk and/or irritable and with barely a noble bone in his vicious body, is the only one who can save him.
Lucky for us, he knows how to put the punch in punchline.
The Worst Survive is a frenetic ride through a retro-future dystopia rife with colourful gangs, a madcap mystery and ever-mounting stakes. It’s Mad Max meets Blade Runner meets Dredd and whatever other action-packed horror-show of a future you can think of. Strap yourself in for a bloody good/bad time!
Review copies are winging their way to inboxes, so if you signed up for one an age ago please look out for it, or let me know if yours has gone missing. And if you’re interested in getting an advance copy for review, the submissions form is still open:
Otherwise, the book will be creeping up into stores for pre-order soon, available at this link (whenever it’s live).
It’s taken me forever to get around to finally releasing this book, so fingers crossed you’ll enjoy it and I can get the rest of the series done soon.
The recent delay has in no small part been because I’ve been so heavily booked up with work – not a bad thing in this economy, but I’ve got to give a heads-up that things are moving a bit slowly. I’ve got two other novels on the horizon (Blood Scouts #4 and a standalone with an Ordshaw vibe) and I’m not sure if I’ll be able to get either out by the end of the year… But we’ll try.
There’s also my little horror computer game coming, but more on that anon.
