29 episodes
After the Virus - a Surviralist's Journal Scott Huber
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4.4 • 14 Ratings
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From the post-apocalyptic novel After the Virus - A Surviralist's Journal (available on Amazon). When a deadly mutated virus sweeps the globe, survival expert Will Scott knows that his only chance is in the remote Ishi Wilderness, once the domain of “America’s last wild Indian”. He soon finds that surviving the elements is nothing compared to the relentless pursuit of a failed-state militia bent on killing every “surviralist” existing outside of the quarantine zone. When he rescues a teenage girl named Hope, whose family has been slaughtered and trains her in wilderness self-sufficiency, her skills eventually exceed even his. His compassion is repaid when Hope becomes the provider and the warrior needed for them to endure. Told first-person in the style of a daily diary, each episode contains one or more day’s journal entries of nearly 12 months on the run in the wild.
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Season 2 Episode 1: P.V.11 - Eleven Years Post Virus
Contained here is a reading of Chapters one and two of Book Two of The Surviralist’s Series: Surviralist’s Birthright.As of March 14, 2034, it has been estimated that approximately four million humans remained alive in what had been the United States of America – roughly the 2021 population of Los Angeles. How many remained alive as of 2045? Where were they hiding?In between Canada and Mexico lay the skeletal remains of a once resource rich and beautiful nation. Who will rise to reclaim their...
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Season 1 Episode 1: Then I was Completely Alone
Narrated in the style of a daily diary, Episode One is Will’s recounting of the days leading up to his first journal entry, and explains the events that brought him to his cave in the wilderness. It describes how climate change prompted the mutation of the most aggressive virus the world had known, and how he escaped infection even as he watched his family succumb to it. Pursued by others also fleeing the pandemic, Will shows that in what has become a dog-eat-dog world, rugged survivalists li...
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Season 1 Episode 2: Pistol Shots at 4 a.m.
After shuttling the remainder of his supplies to his new cave, Will finds that he’s not alone in the wilderness as shots break the stillness before dawn. Going to investigate the old hunting cabins downslope, he discovers that even here the virus has the power to turn men to violence. Want to read the entire story? Paperback and Ebook are available on Amazon (cut and paste link into your browser) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08RRGMQXH?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860To experience more of the story, le...
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Season 1 Episode 3: Tastes Like Chicken
As Will settles into his remote camp the threat of human violence is temporarily behind him, but now he faces the challenges of surviving all alone in the wild. The Ishi wilderness is full of things that can easily injure or kill a person who is unprepared: precipitous topography, poisonous plants, venomous snakes and mammalian predators. If he's up to the task there's plenty of wild game and an abundance of edible and medicinal plants to sustain him. Now is his time to synchronize with the r...
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Season 1 Episode 4: Hope
In Episode 4: Will has begun to fall nicely into a pattern of sustaining himself from the abundance of nature, then once again he is jolted back to the reality of a post-viral world gone mad. When a military gunship shatters the tranquility of Deer Creek Canyon he’s sickened by the carnage it inflicts, but ends up finding hope in an encounter that will completely change his plans, his perspective and the trajectory of the story.Want to read the entire story? Paperback and Ebook are available ...
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Season 1 Episode 5: One and Done
Just as Hope has given Will a renewed purpose to survive, a misguided paramilitary force seeks to destroy anyone existing outside of their quarantine zones. In this episode Will and Hope are systematically hunted from ridgetop to creek bottom. When soldiers get between the two and chase down Hope, Will’s bloodlust is ignited. But when a single shot rings out in the canyon below him Will knows the terrible reality of what that must mean. Want to read the entire story? Paperback and Ebook are a...
Customer Reviews
Adventure and Knowledge of Place
What I love about this series is that it highlights the local plants, animals and terrain of Northern California. Clearly the author is an experienced naturalist and survivalist. The story is great adventure and gives thoughtful ideas on what you might do if in an emergency you suddenly had to live off the land. A rare treat.
Mediocre at best
The lack of research into how special forces are selected and operate is obnoxiously obvious. The authors portrayal of Will as non emotional at times to overly angry and aggressive is a sign of the lacking ability to understand a soldiers mind. Soldiers, especially American soldiers, aren’t robots, they think and feel. The idea that a soldier is almost useless without a chain of command is preposterous. Soldiers are trained to evaluate each order to decide for themselves whether or not it is a lawful and moral order. The lack of understanding of soldiers, especially special forces, has led the author to assume certain aspects of soldiering do not exists. This is a bad oversight on the author’s part for not doing hardly any research into soldiering and the lasting effects.