Engineer's Odyssey

An Apocalypse Parenting Standalone

By: Erin Ampersand

Narrated by: John Pirhalla

Vince and his co-workers were waiting to catch a plane back from their business trip when aliens turned Earth into the setting for a deadly reality show.

Now, monsters are crawling the tarmac, everyone has superpowers, and the planes, cars, phones, and guns have stopped working.

Vince is more than a thousand miles from his wife and kids, but he's determined to make it home and bring his friends along with him.

A party-based, system-onset LitRPG adventure.

©2025 Erin Ampersand (P)2025 Podium Audio

Much needed tie-in

It was great to finally get to hear the story from a new perspective. It was fast paced and didn’t waste time re-explaining things that readers would have learned in the first 3 books. I loved it and appreciated the surprise side quest.

A great addition to the series

I often wondered what was going on with Vince. I can't wait for the next book!

I love the storyline and the humor.

Overall, it’s a great series to read and listen to. Not on dungeon crawler Carl level but still fantastic. I would highly recommend. I wish they would’ve had woman voices for the women and slightly different male voices for the men, but overall great story.
Love the ending! Can’t wait to read/listen about the humans destroy the bad aliens.

Thank you for the great read and listen!

Glad to meet you, Vince!

I enjoyed Vince's story, having read the first three Apocalypse Parenting books, and I am happy to know him. The author is amazingly good at writing character-driven stories, despite the distractions of an alien game world. Every character has a believable profile and contributes to the plot. My only disappointment is that I was so excited to have the story set in Colorado (instead of Alabama)--before I began reading--but it could have been anywhere in the States...not even a word of mountains. It's just the old airport I knew well, and Pueblo, but the area is not germane to the story except how very far away they are from Huntsville. I digress! Please read this story for the humanity of survival, with heart, ingenuity and more of the human experience. I love the narrator, too.

Fantastic side story - must read before moving to book 4.

This installment did not disappoint. The husband's story was interesting from start to finish and it was really fun reading about the same events from his point of view. the beginning was especially gripping since he started in a very populated area so monster spawns were very fast, leading to completely different challenges. There was also a moment when he notes that one of what we know to be his wife's signature skills was is terrible choice. That was one of a few Easter eggs I really enjoyed. This book has a lot faster pace so it's better to read the first three before diving into this one, as a lot of the mechanics arenot explained thoroughly here. My one gripe is that female voices weren't great but the narrator was otherwise fantastic to listen to.