Fiction is unfortunately becoming reality for author Tom Abrahams with his latest novel Unprepared.
If you have been reading this blog in the last decade, then you have seen posts about the abc13 KTRK weekend anchor and his other gig, best selling author of more than two dozen novels in genres including dystopian, sci-fi techno-thriller, post-apocalyptic and political thrillers.
Unprepared is about:
A mutating plague is spreading. It's killing two of every three people on Earth. And Mike Crenshaw is totally unprepared. From the world of The Traveler Series comes a new cast of characters, new obstacles, and the same devastating, world-altering virus which plunges society into the depth of a dystopian hell. UNPREPARED begins in the hours before The Scourge takes hold. As if ripped from today's headlines, governments react too slowly and the disease spreads too fast. Quarantines don't work. Infrastructure fails. People die. Follow Mike and his friends as they try to survive this new landscape and find out how the world in which The Traveler Series was set came into being. It's a thrill ride that will keep you up at night with the lights on and the doors locked.
Abrahams is now ready to move on from the fictional world of pandemics since we are living the reality now with the coronavirus.
"My next project is book three in a dystopian fantasy series. It’s not related to pandemics," Abrahams told Houstonia. I’m glad I’m done writing pandemics for a while. I’ve written 12 books about pandemics—eight Traveler books, three Scourge books, and one book in the alt-apocalypse series. The fun part of writing fiction is the escape of it. When life too closely mirrors that escape, it’s no longer fun. And some part of each of those books is no longer fiction."
The channel 13 television news anchor and novelist told the magazine that he has heard from readers who were prepared for COVID-19 thanks to his writing.
Here is my unsolicited pitch for Abrahams next book...scientists create a COVID-19 vaccine!
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