Part alien invasion story, part buddy comedy, and part workplace satire, After The Fall by Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7 (inspiration for the film Mickey 17), asks an important question: would humans really make great pets?'Enormously engaging. Ashton carefully pieces together a fascinating world full of entertaining characters and intriguing mysteries' - Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke award-winning authorHumans must be silent. Humans must be obedient. Humans must be good.One hundred and twenty years after The Fall, and a hundred years after the grays swept in to pick over the last dregs of humanity, John has found himself bonded to Martok Barden nee Black Hand, one of the "good" grays. Sure, Martok is broke, homeless, and borderline manic, but he's always treated John like an actual person, and sometimes like a friend.But when Martok puts John's bond up as collateral against a house in the woods that he hopes to turn into a wilderness retreat for wealthy grays, John learns that there are limits to Martok's friendship. John has sixty days to buy back his life before Martok's loan comes due, all while avoiding getting butchered by feral humans, killed by something in the woods or having his head crushed by an angry gray. Easy peasy, right?

Part alien invasion story, part buddy comedy, and part workplace satire, After The Fall by Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7 (inspiration for the film Mickey 17), asks an important question: would humans really make great pets?'Enormously engaging. Ashton carefully pieces together a fascinating world full of entertaining characters and intriguing mysteries' - Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke award-winning authorHumans must be silent. Humans must be obedient. Humans must be good.One hundred and twenty years after The Fall, and a hundred years after the grays swept in to pick over the last dregs of humanity, John has found himself bonded to Martok Barden nee Black Hand, one of the "good" grays. Sure, Martok is broke, homeless, and borderline manic, but he's always treated John like an actual person, and sometimes like a friend.But when Martok puts John's bond up as collateral against a house in the woods that he hopes to turn into a wilderness retreat for wealthy grays, John learns that there are limits to Martok's friendship. John has sixty days to buy back his life before Martok's loan comes due, all while avoiding getting butchered by feral humans, killed by something in the woods or having his head crushed by an angry gray. Easy peasy, right?