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Riders of the Fire
THEY RODE ON WHEELS OF DEATH AND FURY ACROSS THE HELLSCAPE OF A SCORCHED EARTH!
One man's shattered past...
One woman's lone quest...
The past is gone. When the nukes hit the world was plunged into the darkness of the long night.
The countdown to extinction had begun...
Meet Cal—rider and drifter of the empty highways, seeking to lose himself in the oblivion of his own fevered nightmare... Then there's the mysterious Sioux huntress; bound for a secret location only she knows. A woman who may carry with her the hopes and dreams of a new born paradise...
Together they must battle feral punks, flesh hungry mutants, a crazed dictator and the fallout terrors of a nuclear hell if they are to make it to the far edge of the world.
To a destination that may not even exist...
One man's shattered past...
One woman's lone quest...
The past is gone. When the nukes hit the world was plunged into the darkness of the long night.
The countdown to extinction had begun...
Meet Cal—rider and drifter of the empty highways, seeking to lose himself in the oblivion of his own fevered nightmare... Then there's the mysterious Sioux huntress; bound for a secret location only she knows. A woman who may carry with her the hopes and dreams of a new born paradise...
Together they must battle feral punks, flesh hungry mutants, a crazed dictator and the fallout terrors of a nuclear hell if they are to make it to the far edge of the world.
To a destination that may not even exist...
- GenresScience Fiction
68 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 1, 2020
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Steve Dilks
37 books44 followersSteve Dilks (1971- ) is an English writer. He has written SF, fantasy and horror for Pulp Hero Press, Wildside Press, Literary Rebel LLC, Rogue Blades Entertainment, Hippocampus Press, and Parallel Universe Publications.
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January 3, 2022
3.5 stars. While there's no real new ground broken here, this proved a fun and pulply Mad Max style post apocalyptic romp packed with the obligatory chase scenes, fight scenes and sex scenes set across the devastated wastelands of the American west, with a myriad of mutant survivors and an unexpected SFnal twist. Dilks throws out a lot of spaghetti in this one, and some of it sticks :)
September 27, 2020
A post apocalyptic novella that rocks out at full speed from beginning to end. It's over the top, as good pulp fiction should be, and the writing style is a perfect fit for the characters and subject matter. It'll certainly put the reader in mind of movies such as the Road Warrior and book series like Traveler by D. B. Drumm, but it's no copy. It's got it's own gory charm. Highly recommended. I read it in a single day.
August 7, 2024
Outstanding Post-Nuke Story!
Outstanding novella in the post-nuke tradition! I’m not well-versed in the fiction version of this genre, having only read portions of the Guardians series by Richard Austin (a pen name/house name of Victor Milán) when I was a kid, surreptitiously absconded from my brother’s bookshelf. But I’m a huge fan of post-apocalyptic movies. Dilks does a great job of adding to what seems to be a defunct genre since most of the post-nuke books came out in the 80s when fears of nuclear holocaust were heavy on the collective culture. I’d love to see a resurgence in the genre both in print and in film (more than just huge budget films like Furiosa). There are several clear influences on Dilks’s story—the obvious, Mad Max and the Road Warrior (and the derivatives like Stryker), Escape from New York, but there’s also a great Robert E. Howard “Tower of the Elephant” nod that was great to see since I feel the post-nuke/post-apocalyptic story is a fitting modern setting for many of the same themes as seen in Sword & Sorcery. “Riders of the Fire” starts grounded in the tried-and-true wasteland tradition in the first half of the story, but goes full gonzo by the end. I really hope Dilks decides to revisit Cal and his Wasteland adventures in the near future.
Outstanding novella in the post-nuke tradition! I’m not well-versed in the fiction version of this genre, having only read portions of the Guardians series by Richard Austin (a pen name/house name of Victor Milán) when I was a kid, surreptitiously absconded from my brother’s bookshelf. But I’m a huge fan of post-apocalyptic movies. Dilks does a great job of adding to what seems to be a defunct genre since most of the post-nuke books came out in the 80s when fears of nuclear holocaust were heavy on the collective culture. I’d love to see a resurgence in the genre both in print and in film (more than just huge budget films like Furiosa). There are several clear influences on Dilks’s story—the obvious, Mad Max and the Road Warrior (and the derivatives like Stryker), Escape from New York, but there’s also a great Robert E. Howard “Tower of the Elephant” nod that was great to see since I feel the post-nuke/post-apocalyptic story is a fitting modern setting for many of the same themes as seen in Sword & Sorcery. “Riders of the Fire” starts grounded in the tried-and-true wasteland tradition in the first half of the story, but goes full gonzo by the end. I really hope Dilks decides to revisit Cal and his Wasteland adventures in the near future.
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