After: An Anatomy of Fracture (2024) by Drew Starling
The world as we know it has ceased to exist. It has been over a decade since the visitors first appeared. Though nature still flourishes, humankind has been crushed and placed under the merciless genocidal campaign of alien intelligence. Technology has been ravaged by electro-magnetic pulses. Humans are forced to wear oxygen converters that conceal their exhaled breath, by which they can be located and destroyed. They now exist either in isolated solitude or in fortified communes. The sky is filled is giant discs that emit howls as they communicate with each other while on the earth’s surface giant creatures constantly seek the remnants of humanity to rend and tear apart in the claws and teeth. Our main character, only ever referred to as “the woman,” has chosen the life of isolated solitude, serving as a motorcycle courier, carrying messages back and forth between the communes (Comms), whe...