The Wildblood: Trilogy One Sourcebook

By S. A. Hoag

A Sourcebook about all things in The Wildblood: Trilogy One - The Vista, Renegades, Bloodlines, AND Backlash: Prequel to The Wildblood. A post-apocalyptic action adventure.

The story -
The Wildblood – No one remembers what started the war, the big one. Civilization stopped, and what came next was fueled by rage and fear.
Twenty years on, a tiny refuge, a place called The Vista, may be one of the last vestiges of humanity. Isolated, guarded, and hiding a dark secret, the people have survived World War Last, and they are content with that. Their children, however, are not. The search for others will send them out into a world they know nothing about, where the line between enemy and ally is blurred.

Background
Spoilers!
Biographies
Who is Who
Where?
Notes No One Has Ever Seen But Me
Info new for this Sourcebook
All Those Terms I Made Up, Explained
Teaser for Outliers: Team Two

• Language: English
• Publisher: S. A. Hoag
• Release date: Aug 28, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393891895

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The Wildblood:

Trilogy One Sourcebook

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by

S. A. Hoag

The Wildblood: Trilogy One Sourcebook

Copyright 2020  S. A. Hoag

The author’s website is www.topaz08.com

All rights reserved.

Cover art by Sheila Hoag

All characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author.

Chapter 1

Beginnings

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The original words for ‘The Vista’ were jotted down in a spiral notebook many years ago – many! I’d say 1998. I’d written many outlines for many novels and the one I was working on was at a standstill. 80 handwritten pages, and the plot evaporated.

Taking the advice from ‘Writer’s Digest’ and ‘The Writer’ magazines, I started a side project to keep myself writing, to keep in the habit. (PS – the original has long since been packed away and declared dead.)

I highly suspect I’d recently watched ‘Mad Max’.

‘The Vista’ started off simply enough – what happens after the apocalypse, when people try to re-establish their lives and civilization, or something like it? Too simple for me, however. Some (then) recent news reports about human genetic engineering had me intrigued. Sure, they’ll be able to fix inherited medical problems like astigmatism, diabetes, and more complicated things, but what if, what if they go that extra step. What if there has been experiments in genetic manipulation for decades? What if people find out, and it causes wars? (Human history is full of similar things, so I grabbed the idea.) The survivors’ children are different, and it’s not something anyone will talk about, let alone admit to. What if these same children, adults now themselves, venture out into the world unprepared for it? They might know they are different, but can it save them? Can that knowledge, that difference, protect their home?

You didn’t think I was going to answer that here, did you?

Anyway, I got a rough draft down quick, but like everyone, I had many other things happening in my life. I’m certain the details of that would bore you. The draft got carefully tucked away, along with the original one I’d been trying to break