“Bert’d be damned if this bar did anything other than thrive. Smack-dab would prosper, or she'd shoot folk until it did.”
"Colourful characters and seriously funny plot."
- Amazon Reviewer
Bert is the takes-no-crap bar owner of Smack-dab, a struggling tavern halfway from nowhere to nowhere else. All around her is the barren, post-apocalyptic Waste, a terrifying place plagued by villainous bandits, ravenous monsters, and Things that go bump in the night (and also eat you).
The Waste is in turmoil. Lord Ash has been overthrown, replaced by a terrifyingly powerful giant hell-bent on taxing anyone and everyone that can help fund his devious master plan. Smack-dab is threatened with total destruction, but Bert has a plan of her own. Can she rally enough help to fend off the bandits?
Strange and hilarious, “Smack-dab, in the Middle of Nowhere” is the fresh new face of the post-apocalypse, even if that face has more creepy mutant eyes than you expected.
Goodreads Reviewer wrote:I absolutely loved Pacey’s humor and his descriptions of this tongue-in-cheek twisted world! This one is Borderlands if it was written by Terry Pratchett so check it out if you love either of those!
Amazon Reviewer wrote:Duncan takes you into his post-apocalyptic world with this comical look at what it takes to survive. The odd characters are strangely engaging and what seems like a cracked narrative, cleverly comes together to tell a fascinating tale.
Pratchetty humour with a hack n slash edge. Pacey also seems to have worked in this whole other layer into his post-apocalyptic theme where the world of The Waste maps cleverly on to real locations – leaving you guessing at how this whole mess of a landscape / ecosystem came about.
Post-apocalyptic New Zealand with a silly twist
Welcome to the Waste. It's big, it's gross, and it's full of life. Unfortunately, that life has lots of eyes and teeth, and it's almost always hungry.
Centuries ago, the Old World popped out for cigarettes and never came home. No one knows how it happened or why, but these days there's an awful lot of craters in the ground, the robotic Overlords are a bit ticked off, everyone's mutated, and why are there so many undead Things running around at night?
Still, society finds a way. Up and down the endless Waste, people thrive - whether they're hunting criminals in the big city, or simply trying to run a business out in the middle of nowhere. Duncan P. Pacey's "Waste Stories" are full of vibrant, colourful characters, hilarious oddity, memorable madness, and heroic tales of personal sacrifice (and florpadorps).
