Missions from the Extinction Cycle, Vol. 1

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith - foreword, various authors, Jeff Olah, Mark Tufo, Rachel Aukes, Russell Blake, Anthony J. Melchiorri

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

The best-selling Extinction Cycle series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith first introduced listeners to a world ravaged by an engineered virus that turned men into monsters. Billions died, civilization collapsed, and the human race teetered on the brink of extinction. Humanity's only hope was not a cure, but another bioweapon. When deployed, it killed 90 percent of the infected, but the remaining 10 percent transformed into even more terrifying creatures called Variants.

Heroes have risen up to meet these abominations. Men like Master Sergeant Reed Beckham of Delta Force Team Ghost and Marine Corporal Joe Fitzpatrick. Women like Dr. Kate Lovato and firefighter Meg Pratt. Throughout the world, survivors band together to fight the evolving monsters in an effort to save humanity.

Now, for the first time ever, comes a collection of Extinction Cycle short stories that explore the human spirit and the fight for survival in the face of overwhelming odds from some of the leading voices in the post-apocalyptic genre.

Featured authors include:

• Mark Tufo - "Extinction Trippin'"
• Anthony Melchiorri - "Darkness Evolved"
• Jeff Olah - "The Bone Collector"
• Russell Blake - "Extinction Thailand"
• Rachel Aukes - "The Fall of Fort Bragg"

©2019 Jeff Olah, Mark Tufo, Rachel Aukes, Anthony Melchiorri, and Russell Blake (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Great expansion!

All these stories are awesome. I love the E-Cycle books. These stories bring it to another dimension. The authors in this collection capture the original story and even makes you feel for the variants.

Cool side stories

Love how some of the pieces are out together from original story line in these stories

A must read!!

To have a few of my favorite authors in one place was awesome! I loved this book!! I was engaged from the moment I started listening and could not put the book down! It left me wanting more!!

Great Stories

Loved the new stories behind the scenes of those left behind, fighting, hiding and surviving the Variant threat. Stories include The Bone Collector, his past and how he became as well as how Kate and Big Horn's daughters were captured and recovered. Also the story behind Big Horn's wife and her demise.
With some very notable authors taking the reins of these short stories you will not be disappointed as each has continued the exact feel that NSS has placed in EC. Loved it and eagerly await other favorite authors to take up the challenge with more behind the scene stories.

Loved it

Enjoyed this mix of writers giving side stories to already recognized work. Filled in some side ground for me.