Anson Joaquin's Books
The Infernal Age Series
The Infernal Age series is a post-apocalyptic genre blend of science-fiction, fantasy, and horror that explores the themes of humanity, metamorphosis, alienation, masculinity (both toxic and ideal), willpower, duty, friendship, love, predation, magic, science, philosophy, and pithy quips. The series gradually becomes more fantasy as it progresses, as the world adjusts to its new reality. While the series is anchored in the traditions of The Mist and Dies the Fire, among others, it is also for people whose favorite part of Cabin in the Woods was the banter between the scientists in the lab, or whose favorite scene in Kill Bill Vol 2 was Bill's soliloquy about Superman's implicit contempt for the human race.
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The Mist meets a gritty prequel to The Elfstones of Shannara, The Infernal Age: Demon Gate is a nail-biting take on the death of the modern age and the birth of something darker.
Gabriel Rodriguez, an ex-soldier-turned-project-manager with anger issues, is sent to a remote desert town in New Mexico, charged with keeping a failed government experiment secret, secure, and stable. Here, he meets Tam Sinclair, an oddly philosophical scientist who endeavors to help him in his mission. But as they settle into a bantering friendship, things go catastrophically wrong–and the results are far worse than anyone could ever have imagined.
As the containment fails, the truth is revealed–the experiment has punched a hole through to another reality allowing demon-like aliens to pass through, bringing their realm’s fundamental laws of physics with them. The world is plunged into horror as the creatures rampage through their new hunting grounds. All technology fails and many begin to sicken and die. Still reeling from the shock of their changed reality, Gabriel and Tam encounter a traumatized yet incredibly resilient woman who takes the nickname Ripley. Together, the three embark on an odyssey to get vital data to the experiment’s authors in Los Angeles in hopes of mitigating the disaster. As they travel together, battle demons, give aid to some survivors and fight others, each of them realizes that they are manifesting unsettling powers which, while helping them, also threaten to estrange them from their humanity.
An apocalyptic blend of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, The Infernal Age - Demon Gate is book one of a debut series by author Anson Joaquín. Join Gabriel, Tam, and Ripley as they are confronted by the end of the world they knew and start their quest to set things right, or failing that, at least to stay alive… and stay human.
Narrator: John Pirhalla
Cover Art: Jeff Brown
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The world is in ruins. But when one age ends, another begins—and this one is born in fire.
The Earth is broken. Cities lie in ash. Strange storms swirl over forsaken deserts. And from the breach known as the Demon Gate, mankind’s end pours forth.
Gabriel was changed by the Gate—touched by its flame. Haunted by a link with the demons that he cannot deny, he clings to his humanity and his mission with all the strength he can muster while the laws of nature unravel and magic—raw, unstable, and deadly—awakens.
Traveling toward Los Angeles on a mission to try to stave off the end of humanity, Gabriel and his growing team pass through a land where demons walk the earth—and fly the skies. But the farther they go, the clearer one thing becomes: this was never about saving the world. This is about surviving what comes after it ends.
Blending post-apocalyptic horror with the birth of a new magical epoch, The Infernal Age: Flameborn is the explosive second entry in a series for fans of The Stand, The Broken Earth, and Shadow of the Gods.
A dying Earth. A rising magic. And the last survivors standing at the edge of a new age.
Cover Art: Jeff Brown