Love in the Time of the Apocalypse
Gregory Blecha
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Brilliance + heart + humor = a uniquely wild ride
Gregory Blecha's rare fusion of brilliance, heart, and humor comes to life in this satirical novel that defies genre by simultaneously managing to be a moving and unadulterated love story.

The narrative style evokes Kim Stanley Robinson's futuristic sci-fi classic Pacific Edge and its they-could-be-my-neighbors realism, as well as the headlong rush of The Da Vinci Code's opening chapters (a pace maintained here from beginning to end).

Yet Blecha's voice is unequivocally his own. He captures human flaws and failings with bull's-eye farce but also with benevolence and hope. And his vision of the strange bedfellows in the United States' future is uniquely provocative - I may be laughing, but I'm also stocking my underground bunker.

Love in the Time of the Apocalypse is dedicated in part to the author's late brother Bryan - also the name of the novel's hapless yet intrepid, indefatigable, and surprising protagonist. I can only imagine that the real Bryan would be proud to live on in his trouble-prone and endearing namesake who, even as the world plummets toward disaster, keeps on believing in the love that conquers all - including the apocalypse.  
 
Nicole Hunter, author of
"Waiting for the World to End"

The cover of "Love in the Time of the Apocalypse" depicts the "Winged Figures of the Republic" (seen above in this picture taken in May, 2009). The 32-foot bronze statues were designed by an architect named Gordon Kaufmann. You can see the statues "in person" when you visit the Hoover Dam (unless the eco-terrorists have destroyed it).

 

 Greg reads from "Love in the Time of the Apocalypse" at the Avid Reader bookstore in Davis, California

 

 

Disclaimer: This is not an "apocalyptic novel"; this is a work of literary fiction using a hypothetical apocalypse as a backdrop for storytelling (I don't want to disappoint any apocalypse die-hards, since this is not an apocalypse-genre story)...

 

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Click here to read the first chapter.
 
You can read the entire novel at Google Books, but please write a review and let me know whether you enjoyed the book...