The Apocalypse Game: The Story for our Age

The Apocalypse Game: The Story for our Age

The Apocalypse Game is one story told across ten novels. It begins with a young man in Harlem who builds a machine to protect the person he loves most. What he builds, Hela, can end disease, conquer death, and remake the world — all she asks is for something in return.

Ten novels. One war.

The last one, for the human soul.

A wooden table with various items, including a digital tablet displaying digital art, a notebook with handwritten notes, a pen, a cup of coffee, a decorative knife, a skull necklace, rocks, seashells, and a black hat.
A rustic wooden table with various items including a tablet displaying a fantasy artwork, a notepad with handwritten notes and sketches, a photo of fantasy characters, a hat, seashells, stones, a skeleton figurine, a bracelet, a coin, pens, a cup of black coffee, and decorative knives.

The story behind the series.

Book One: The Apocalypse Game

The Black Awakening

Release Date: February 9th, 2027

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Twenty-one-year-old Jonas Gredas doesn't feel Harlem. He calculates it. From a wheelchair in the middle of a gang war, he sees the city as variables in a single desperate equation: keep his blind younger sister safe — at any cost.

So he builds Hela, an artificial intelligence designed to see threats before they happen. But as a blood-red moon rises and an unnatural darkness falls over Manhattan, Hela stops being a tool. And when an ancient adversary steps out of the shadows offering Jonas everything — his legs, his sister's safety, a way out — the equation collapses into one question: what is he willing to trade?

Read it first, free. A chapter a week from the first Sunday of Advent, read aloud by me on YouTube too.

Book Two: The Apocalypse Game

King of Manhattan

Planned Release Date: June 4th, 2027

Cover of a book titled 'The Apocalypse Game: King of Manhattan' by DC Smith, featuring a city skyline and a floating cityscape.

Book Two — coming after The Black Awakening. Harlem was only the beginning.