Jon Lymon Reviews Tomorrow War, The Chronicles of Max Redacted by J. L. Bourne

If there’s ever an apocalypse, have this book about your person. It’ll provide a handy guide to survival in the most extreme circumstances.

Be sure to have plenty of cans of chicken noodle soup to hand. And it’ll help if you can fly a microlite. That’s what Max does in this gripping, highly detailed tale of survival in the wake of the complete breakdown of the world.

Max, (his surname redacted presumably by whoever found his account of his exploits) is guilty of aiding and abetting whatever caused the apocalypse. Although it’s not mentioned in as many words, from what I can gather it’s an AI gone rogue leading to all kinds of bad sh-REDACTED going down, which basically entails the collapse of society as we knew it.

Pesky computers.

It results in anarchy, with people herded into football stadiums and generally treated badly. Max remains a loose cannon, so highly trained he can survive on his own, and help others survive, while taking out a fair few bad guys along the way, many of them motorbikers, one of them the type who carries around a severed human head in his saddle bag.

I have to say I was expecting zombies, of which there were none, so that may lead to disappointment if that’s what you’re expecting from Tomorrow War

Although I feel Max could have survived on his own throughout this dystopia, it’s his buddying up with an elderly freight train carriage dweller that enables him to go on the offensive and give something back to those trying to suppress the surviving humans.

You can’t fail to be impressed by the level of detail Bourne imparts in terms of what it takes to survive a world thrown into disarray. It’s a grim tale that you have to hope doesn’t come to pass for real, and you can probably reduce the chances of anything like this coming to pass anytime soon by simply stopping using the pure evil shit that is AI.