Chuck Wendig · 2019 · survival

Chuck Wendig's 2019 epic, an apocalypse told as a slow walk. A teenage girl named Nessie rises from bed one morning and walks west, silent and unwakeable; soon a whole flock of sleepwalkers follows, shepherded by their loved ones, while a fungal plague called White Mask unravels the country around them. Steered by a hidden AI, they are walking toward the one place engineered to let them outlast the end of the world.

1. 1
   Maker's Bell

   Fifteen-year-old Nessie walks out of her farmhouse one morning, the first of the sleepwalkers.

2. 2
   The Midwest

   The flock grows as walkers join from across America, trailed by their devoted shepherds.

3. 3
   The Great Plains

   West across a country sliding into panic as the White Mask plague spreads.

4. 4
   Ouray

   To a small mining town in the San Juan Mountains, the haven the AI chose to outlast the end of the world.