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Devolution

Devolution

Horror
Pages
304
Published
2020

Synopsis

Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre is a 2020 epistolary horror novel by Max Brooks (author of World War Z). It is framed as an investigation, pieced together from a recovered journal, interviews, transcripts and other documents, into the fate of Greenloop — a small, tech-dependent eco-community in the Cascade foothills.

When Mount Rainier erupts, Greenloop's high-speed internet and solar-powered comforts are no help: the eruption strands its residents, and displaced, food-starved Sasquatch turn to the settlement as prey. Cut off, unarmed and unprepared, the community must confront both the collapsing infrastructure of modern life and a predator that should not exist.

As with World War Z, Brooks builds the horror from testimony and documentary fragments rather than straight narration, using the format to interrogate how ill-suited comfortable modern life is for genuine crisis.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

TenseDarkAtmosphericGritty
SurvivalEpistolary

Genres

Horror

About the author

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Max Brooks

Maximillian Michael Brooks(born May 22, 1972), best known as Max Brooks, is an American actor and author. He is the son of comedy filmmaker Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft. Much of Brooks's writing focuses on zombie stories. He is a senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point, New York. Source: [Max Brooks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Brooks) on Wikipedia.

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