Wanderers

The book parses societal and climate change via a satisfying SF twist -- Adam Roberts * Guardian *
Wanderers is engaging and entertaining. It's uncomfortable to read, but also a timely novel that demands a place in the spotlight. Wendig takes science, politics, horror, and science fiction and blended them into an outstanding story about the human spirit in times of turmoil, claiming a spot on the list of must-read apocalyptic novels while doing so -- Gabino Iglesias * NPR *
While Wanderers weighs in at just shy of 800 pages, it's a journey well-worth taking and one readers won't soon forget -- CJ Lyons * New York Journal of Books *
If, after all my lavish and effusive praise, you still aren't convinced if you should read Wanderers, let me leave you with this: the book is 800 pages and I read it in two sittings. I forgot to eat. Twice. I sat on the couch enraptured by the story. It's that good. No, it's that incredible -- Alex Brown * Reactor *
A powerful story about humanity, technology, and the survival of the world. Comparisons to Stephen King's The Stand are warranted, as Wendig shatters the boundaries of speculative and literary fiction... * Library Journal *
This career-defining epic deserves its inevitable comparisons to Stephen King's The Stand * Publishers Weekly *
This was a wonderful story not just for its vision of a future that could easily become a terrifying reality, but also for its techno feel of today combined with riveting characters fighting against a system that just won't put people first. It had everything. Film deal, anyone? -- John C. Adams, British Fantasy Society
Wendig is clearly wrestling with some of the demons of our time, resulting in a story that is ambitious, bold, and worthy of attention * Kirkus *
Approach Wanderers like it's a primetime television series, along the lines of The Passage [or] Lost... Make Wanderers a summer reading priority; you won't regret it * Book Riot *
The world is changing, and we may not survive the changes, but Wendig offers hope in his searing portrayal of the world as it might soon be: a planet that pushes past its own dissolution and keeps the best of humanity intact -- Michelle Nugent * Broad Street Review *
It's not easy to write the end of the world. With Wanderers, Chuck Wendig has mastered it * Bookpage *
Wendig offers a book that skirts reality with a fine edge that intensifies the horror in ways not seen since Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower -- Don Kelly * Spectrum Culture *
Wendig's latest stands proudly beside The Stand and Swan Song, offering as many differences as there are passing similarities to those works, showcasing 21st century concerns and points of view that are wholly its own -- Michael Patrick Hicks * High Fever Books *
Wanderers is a few things: a tense mystery; an Outbreak-style medical thriller; a sprawling, Stephen King-esque epic. But mostly it's a book about America right now - and much like America right now, it's a potent blend of fear, confusion, and guarded, fragile hope -- Erik Henriksen * Portland Mercury *
At 800 pages, this is a sizeable tome, but it didn't feel like it at all. It's exactly the right length for the story. Nothing dragged or felt like padding. The plot is engaging and well-paced throughout. Wanderers may have been the first fiction I've read by Chuck Wendig but it definitely won't be the last. I'm heading off now to add his entire backlist to my towering TBR -- Shona Kinsella * Fantasy Hive *
For me, it is an instant classic, an immediate Modern Masterpiece of the genre, and will probably be my favorite 2019 novel, and a book I will hold very high in my pantheon for years to come. So yeah, go out and get the damned book and read it. Highly, highly recommended -- Rob H. Bedford * SFF World *
Wanderers is OUTSTANDING. Wanderers excites me. You want well-developed characters and complex relationships? Read Wanderers. You want grounded sci-fi that ranks up there with bookstagram faves like #Recursion and #StationEleven? Read Wanderers. You want twists and turns and edge-of-your-seat action? Read Wanderers * Jordy’s Book Club *
As something of a germaphobe, I found its more disturbing elements playing on my mind, but at no point was I going to give up on reading it. If that's not a recommendation I don't know what is -- Stuart Maine * SF Crow’s Nest *
A magnum opus... It reminded me of Stephen King's The Stand - but dare I say, this story is even better -- James Rollins, author of CRUCIBLE
An inventive, fierce, uncompromising, stay-up-way-past-bedtime masterwork * Paul Tremblay, author of THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD *
An American epic for these times -- Charles Soule, author of THE ORACLE YEAR
Beautiful and harrowing - and timely as hell -- Richard Kadrey, author of THE GRAND DARK
With Wanderers, Chuck Wendig levels up - and when you consider the high level he was already writing at, that's saying something -- John Scalzi, author of THE CONSUMING FIRE
Wanderers is amazing - huge, current, both broad and intensely personal, blending the contemplative apocalypse of Station Eleven with the compulsive readability of the best thrillers -- Django Wexler, author of the Shadow Campaigns series
A riveting examination of America -- Scott Sigler, author of the Generations Trilogy
If you ever wanted to know what America's soul might look like, here's its biography -- Rin Chupeco, author of THE BONE WITCH
A tsunami of a novel -- Meg Gardiner, author of INTO THE BLACK NOWHERE
A defining moment in speculative fiction -- Adam Christopher, author of EMPIRE STATE
Trust me: You're not ready for this book -- Delilah S. Dawson, author of STAR WARS: PHASMA
An astounding adventure -- Fran Wilde, author of the Bone Universe trilogy
Utterly brilliant and frighteningly plausible -- Kat Howard, author of AN UNKINDNESS OF MAGICIANS
A harrowing portrait of an unravelling America... terrifyingly prophetic -- Christopher Golden, author of ARARAT
A brilliant, Hollywood-blockbuster of a novel -- Peter Clines, author of DEAD MOON