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Feb. 27, 2013
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Deirdre Gould
Biography
A severe addiction to Post-apocalyptic literature combined with a lifetime of a very rural existence, first in central Maine and now in northern Idaho naturally led to both of Deirdre's novels: The Jade Seed and After the Cure.
Deirdre's education in anthropology and peace and conflict studies prompted the central idea for After the Cure: How do people live with each other after doing horrendous things to each other? How do societies put themselves together or continue to exist after terrible wars? What is day to day existence like when such violence exists within living memory? Though fiction can never come close to the reality of living with atrocity, it can help us ask important questions about our world and our treatment of each other.
Since living in the woods makes it all too easy to imagine being one of the last people left in the world, After the Cure is only the first novel of several that will take place in a post-apocalyptic, "post-zombie" world.
Deirdre's education in anthropology and peace and conflict studies prompted the central idea for After the Cure: How do people live with each other after doing horrendous things to each other? How do societies put themselves together or continue to exist after terrible wars? What is day to day existence like when such violence exists within living memory? Though fiction can never come close to the reality of living with atrocity, it can help us ask important questions about our world and our treatment of each other.
Since living in the woods makes it all too easy to imagine being one of the last people left in the world, After the Cure is only the first novel of several that will take place in a post-apocalyptic, "post-zombie" world.
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Series
Ex Situ
by Deirdre Gould
Cradle of the Deep
Traveler in the Dark
Torrent of Darkness
Sixteen hundred years ago, they fled Earth. Now their long journey may finally be at an end. None of them have ever walked on soil, felt rain, or breathed unrecycled air.
Their resources nearly spent, they sent a last exploratory mission to a new planet. It's ideal... but they are not alone.
In the struggle for survival, they must make a choice. Sacrifice another species or accept their own extinction. And time is running out.
Cradle of the Deep
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Traveler in the Dark
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Free!
Torrent of Darkness
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$3.99 USD.
After The Cure
by Deirdre Gould
After the Cure
The Cured
Krisis
Poveglia
The 40th Day
It's been eight years since the December Plague infected 99 percent of humanity. The Infected were driven to kill and compelled to consume other people. The Immune fought back until a cure was discovered and administered to surviving Infected. But the now cured Infected remember what they did during the Plague- and what was done to them. The remains of humanity struggle to pick up the pieces and put civilization back together.
After the Cure
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Free!
The Cured
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$3.99 USD.
Krisis
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Poveglia
Price:
$3.99 USD.
The 40th Day
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$3.99 USD.
Books
7081
by Deirdre Gould
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 163,310.
Language:
English.
Published: January 29, 2024
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias
In the penal colony of Vesta, information is currency. Under the watchful eye of the Shepherds-- machines of metal and math-- there are no luxuries or contraband.Information is used to trade jobs, to make allies and most importantly, to bribe the Shepherds who guard them. But Eenon Pak has already been away from Earth for several years. On Vesta, he's poor.
Reversion
by Deirdre Gould
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 113,560.
Language:
English.
Published: September 22, 2021
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Categories:
Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic
The City was gone. Neil should have reached it years before and once he stood on the crumbling debris of its concrete wall, he couldn't help but mourn the months he'd spent fruitlessly searching for his daughter instead. The City was gone. The Cure was gone. And Elijah was a hundred miles away, struggling to care for the eight Infected they'd found alone. His friend would never forgive him.
The Infected
by Deirdre Gould
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 107,280.
Language:
English.
Published: July 20, 2020
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Categories:
Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic
Neil Newton was one of the Infected. Recalled to sanity by a cure, he finds the world is not as he remembers. Surrounded by strangers in a place he does not recognize, his body is starved and scarred by the unending battles during his illness. His memory of what he has done to survive the past few years begins to return in pieces. And his family, including his eleven-year-old daughter is missing.
Before the Cure
by Deirdre Gould
Price:
Free!
Words: 96,440.
Language:
English.
Published: April 17, 2020
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Categories:
Fiction » Horror » Undead, Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic
(5.00 from 1 review)
At first, nobody knew how the December Plague started. Nobody even knew it HAD started. Especially not Neil Newton. The Infected are loose in the hospital and Neil is trapped inside with them. The outside society is unaware that their containment did not work and Neil's young daughter is out alone amid a crumbling world unless Neill can escape to save her.
Reciprocate
by Deirdre Gould
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 130,110.
Language:
English.
Published: December 19, 2018
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias, Fiction » Science fiction » General
Outside the facilities, the peace laws must be observed. It left only the scapegoats as an outlet for increasingly frustrated clients. What few protections the scapegoats had from the vicious whims of angry clients are disappearing as the facilities are sold to the highest bidder. No one outside will save them. Rescue and revolution must come from within.
Scapegoat
by Deirdre Gould
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 84,370.
Language:
English.
Published: December 19, 2018
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias, Fiction » Science fiction » General
Remember the creed of the Designated Scapegoats: Through our suffering, may you find peace.
They will not complain. They will not resist. They will not fight back.
Until now.
Torrent of Darkness
by Deirdre Gould
Series: Ex Situ.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 81,680.
Language:
English.
Published: December 4, 2017
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Categories:
Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
Out of fifty thousand, only thirty-three survived the Keseburg and the alien AI called Issk'ath. Hurtling toward an unfamiliar planet with few supplies and no preparation, they believe they are the last of humanity.
Cradle of the Deep
by Deirdre Gould
Series: Ex Situ.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 71,890.
Language:
English.
Published: December 2, 2017
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Categories:
Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Science fiction » General
The Keseburg is silent, adrift, and running out of fuel.
As they search the massive ship for survivors and answers, something else stalks them. Something that does not belong on the Keseburg.
Traveler in the Dark
by Deirdre Gould
Series: Ex Situ.
Price:
Free!
Words: 86,190.
Language:
English.
Published: November 6, 2017
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Categories:
Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Science fiction » General
Sixteen hundred years ago, they fled Earth. None of them have ever walked on soil, felt rain, or breathed unrecycled air.
Their resources nearly spent, they sent a last exploratory mission to a new planet. It's ideal... but they are not alone.
In the struggle for survival, they must make a choice. Sacrifice another species or accept their own extinction.
The 40th Day
by Deirdre Gould
Series: After The Cure.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 81,850.
Language:
English.
Published: May 4, 2016
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Categories:
Fiction » Horror » Undead, Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic
In the concluding novel of the After the Cure series, a small splinter colony of surviving humans struggle to protect themselves from a devastating plague. Without modern medicine, without electricity or hope of outside aid, the only resort is quarantine.
Poveglia
by Deirdre Gould
Series: After The Cure.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 75,660.
Language:
English.
Published: April 21, 2016
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Categories:
Fiction » Horror » Undead, Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic
But a new, incurable strain of the Plague has been released into the city's population. Desparate to avoid total annihilation, Nella and Frank Courtlen race to find a cure while their friends, Sevita and Christine struggle to survive and prevent the disease from spreading to the tiny, fragile colonies of humans outside the city walls.
Krisis
by Deirdre Gould
Series: After The Cure.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 88,330.
Language:
English.
Published: April 18, 2016
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Categories:
Fiction » Horror » Undead, Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic
They can't restrain themselves. They can't reason. They can't love. The Infected can only suffer and rage, attacking stranger and caregiver alike. The only release from this misery is death.
Until one man, in a hospital for abandoned Infected, does the unthinkable.
He recovers.
The Cured
by Deirdre Gould
Series: After The Cure, Book 2.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 108,250.
Language:
English.
Published: September 14, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic, Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias
Henry spent eight years chained to a post. Exposed, starved, infected with the December Plague, and mad. During those eight years, the December Plague consumed most of the world's human population, causing the infected to become violent and cannibalistic. But Henry escaped. And now he's been Cured. He remembers everything.
After the Cure
by Deirdre Gould
Series: After The Cure, Book 1.
Price:
Free!
Words: 116,090.
Language:
English.
Published: November 21, 2013
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic, Fiction » Horror » General
(4.33 from 3 reviews)
Eight years ago the December Plague swept through the human population of earth. The Infected were driven mad by the disease, becoming violent and cannibalistic, killing even those closest to them without hesitation. Six years ago, the tiny surviving community of Immune humans found a cure, and the Infected began to wake up and realize what they'd done. And what had been done to them.
The Jade Seed
by Deirdre Gould
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 76,710.
Language:
English.
Published: June 7, 2013
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Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » Epic
This is a tale from when the world was old. This is what happened at the end.
The Stone Messenger waited in the grave of the world. Deep in its belly, the jade seed lay, until Brone, the Grower called it forth.
Pursued by terrible beasts, lost in the empty dark when the sun was devoured, Brone guarded the seed as the breath of the world dwindled.
This is what happened in the beginning.
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