Post-Apocalyptic

With the name of Earth's greatest threat finally revealed, the Earth Force prepares for its most critical mission yet. Before they can venture into the stars, they must first secure humanity’s survival at home. As they battle deadly monsters and eradicate the dreaded Broodmothers, their goal is clear: arm humanity with the tools to endure the chaos and ready themselves for the journey beyond the stars.

Leaving Hammerhead behind, it’s time to explore a new alien world. Bryte, a gleaming beacon of technology and progress, stands tall — right next to a planet crawling with twisted, monstrous horrors. In this delicate balance, survival is anything but guaranteed.

His muscles elastic and his mind fragmented, Connor Durham awakens on an unknown beach. In the distance before him is a black tower whose peak rises to meet the clouds. In the water behind him are beings who used to be human, their bodies warping and twisting into horrific new configurations. With nowhere else to turn, Connor runs for the tower. In the Kadath deep-sea mining facility, Lucas Kane feels haunted. He dreams of lives he never lived and hears whispers from people who don't exist. During his days, four gray figures vibrate in and out of focus behind him, their words mostly unintelligible mutters. But there's something else that he sees while both awake and asleep: a sphere, massive, metallic, and beautiful, which awaits him outside Kadath's walls at the bottom of the ocean. Separated by dimensions, these two men – and their unfolding stories – are intrinsically linked. As they descend deeper into the dark terrors of the unknown, they will draw inextricably closer together until, at last, both men find themselves trapped in the very depths of otherworldly madness. Welcome to Shattered Seas. Featuring the ENTIRE Soundbooth Theater cast and original music by Aaron J. Morton, Deep Madness: Shattered Seas will allow fans of the popular tabletop game to follow their favorite characters in a new and exciting way. ©2020 Byron Leavitt (P)2020 Soundbooth Theater

His muscles elastic and his mind fragmented, Connor Durham awakens on an unknown beach. In the distance before him is a black tower whose peak rises to meet the clouds. In the water behind him are beings who used to be human, their bodies warping and twisting into horrific new configurations. With nowhere else to turn, Connor runs for the tower. In the Kadath deep-sea mining facility, Lucas Kane feels haunted. He dreams of lives he never lived and hears whispers from people who don't exist. During his days, four gray figures vibrate in and out of focus behind him, their words mostly unintelligible mutters. But there's something else that he sees while both awake and asleep: a sphere, massive, metallic, and beautiful, which awaits him outside Kadath's walls at the bottom of the ocean. Separated by dimensions, these two men – and their unfolding stories – are intrinsically linked. As they descend deeper into the dark terrors of the unknown, they will draw inextricably closer together until, at last, both men find themselves trapped in the very depths of otherworldly madness. Welcome to Shattered Seas. Featuring the ENTIRE Soundbooth Theater cast and original music by Aaron J. Morton, Deep Madness: Shattered Seas will allow fans of the popular tabletop game to follow their favorite characters in a new and exciting way. ©2020 Byron Leavitt (P)2020 Soundbooth Theater

Only a rag-tag team of gargoyles stands between humanity and extinction. Hell has released its ravening horde of demons, leaving most of humanity a puke-spewing, head-spinning mess of possession. Humanity’s last hope? A team of misfit gargoyles—including a cigar chomping, hard-ass grotesque—come alive and ready for battle during the End of Days. They guard the last cathedral-turned-sanctuary atop a bald knoll in the North Carolina mountains. Gargoyle protection grudgingly extends to any human who can make it inside the sanctuary, but the power of the stonecutter blood magic, which protects the sanctuary, may not be enough when a rogue grotesque and his badly-wounded ward arrive. All the hounds of hell are on their heels. The last sanctuary is about to fall. ©2017 Jake Bible (P)2021 Soundbooth Theater

Carl tries to save the cat. The world ends. The game begins. As it turns out, the apocalypse will be televised.

Having dealt with the immediate threat of the mutated Warped, Earth Force and Unity are preparing to leave Earth’s Solar system. Their destination is the alien space station known as Hammerhead, a nexus for space miners venturing into the nearby asteroid field. Led by their captain, Nori, they will have to navigate their way through many aliens and cultures. They’ll forge new friendships and acquire resources and alien technologies in order to help the survivors back home. But their main objective is different: they’re hunting the person responsible. The one who gave the order to infuse Earth with the Tec. They will track him down at any cost to discover what he has in store for the entire human race. © 2019 Shemer Kuznits ℗ 2021 Soundbooth Theater

On the first day, a mist descended from the heavens blanketing earth. On the second day, a cryptic message, ‘Infusion commencing,’ appeared in the corner of everyone’s eyes. On the third day, the sick were healed and the crippled walked again. On the fourth day, celebration and joy spread across the globe. And on the fifth day, the warping began… There was no warning. A mist descended from the sky, disabling all technology and causing a mysterious message to appear at the corner of everyone’s eye. The situation grew even worse as animals and people started to warp, transforming into terrible monsters that prey on the living. Within months, human civilization crumbled. Unable to fight the seemingly indestructible beasts, the survivors are reduced to cowering in reinforced shelters. Waiting for the end to come. Helpless. All seemed lost until a few brave souls discovered the secret of their new reality: the Tec and how to use it to level up. Together they represent humanity’s last and best hope for salvation. But first they must find the answers to the mystery of their new existence. Their journey will require them to quickly adapt to alien technology, operate strange spaceships, and even befriend an extra-terrestrial merchant with an Inferiority Complex. ©2019 Shemer Kuznits (P)2020 Soundbooth Theater

First Contact didn't go as expected. Now they own us. Earth has been conquered by a massive galactic empire, and its war machine needs soldiers. In a cruel twist of fate, 14-year-old Joe Dobbs accidentally ends up on a ship carrying Earth's children to an alien training planet. To make it out alive, he must survive an apathetic bureaucracy that sees humans as little more than spare rations. Meat with guns. Or, if they're really unlucky, servants. The oldest of the children drafted from humanity's devastated planet, Joe unwittingly becomes the centerpiece in a millennia-long alien struggle for independence. Once his training begins, one of the elusive and prophetic Trith gives Joe a spine chilling prophecy that the universe has been anticipating for millions of years: Joe will be the one to finally shatter the vast alien government known as Congress. And, the Trith cannot lie.…but first, Joe has to make it through boot camp.

Two turns after the events of Forging Zero, Rat and Joe finally finish their PlanOps training and get orders to their first duty station--a hellhole Bagan planet called Blekk--but first, a little good old fashioned R&R! Joe and Rat get set loose on the Ueshi pleasure planet of Kaleu with fourteen days and five turns' worth of credits burning a hole in their pockets, and they plan to make full use of it! But this wouldn't be a Legend of Zero if Zero didn't do something legendary, now would it? One would certainly think that a 15 day vacation to an Ueshi pleasure planet would be nothing but peace and relaxation... However, when Baga are involved, a lot can go sideways--especially when one of Joe's groundmates is a numbers-crunching, gambling-obsessed savant fixated on beating the house! Kidnapping, assassination, a splash of gratuitous violence, nailbats... Can Zero save his teammates from the bowels of a casino and salvage his vacation before time runs out? Will Rat get her revenge, or will her competitive streak go too far? Come enjoy the latest installment in the Legend of ZERO!

On the first day, a mist descended from the heavens blanketing earth. On the second day, a cryptic message, ‘Infusion commencing,’ appeared in the corner of everyone’s eyes. On the third day, the sick were healed and the crippled walked again. On the fourth day, celebration and joy spread across the globe. And on the fifth day, the warping began… There was no warning. A mist descended from the sky, disabling all technology and causing a mysterious message to appear at the corner of everyone’s eye. The situation grew even worse as animals and people started to warp, transforming into terrible monsters that prey on the living. Within months, human civilization crumbled. Unable to fight the seemingly indestructible beasts, the survivors are reduced to cowering in reinforced shelters. Waiting for the end to come. Helpless. All seemed lost until a few brave souls discovered the secret of their new reality: the Tec and how to use it to level up. Together they represent humanity’s last and best hope for salvation. But first they must find the answers to the mystery of their new existence. Their journey will require them to quickly adapt to alien technology, operate strange spaceships, and even befriend an extra-terrestrial merchant with an Inferiority Complex. © 2019 Shemer Kuznits ℗ 2020 Soundbooth Theater

At Hammerhead Station, the grim, gritty edge of civilization, survival is a daily grind. Resources need mining, enemies demand defeat, and allies are always in need of rescue. It’s just another day on the frontier - where every battle could be the last.

In the post-apocalyptic wasteland that is the northeastern United States, a grizzled survivor downloads a frivolous app that does a lot more than steal his data. To reverse the app’s disastrous effect, he’ll have to race against time to travel to the mysterious Jacob’s Untouched Cheese in *checks notes* Bridgeport, CT? Why Bridgeport? Is there anything there besides bridges and ports...?

The team gets dirty. Carl and Donut save children from a drug war.

With Patsy under control, Nori and company are better able to navigate the space station. Discovering that nadirium is in high demand, the crew sets out to mine some from the surrounding asteroid field and run into trouble along the way. Want the whole book, but can't wait for monthly episodes? The full classic audiobook narrated by Jeff Hays with no sound effects or music is available for purchase! © 2019 Shemer Kuznits ℗ 2022 Soundbooth Theater

The most fearsome aliens in existence just allied with the universe's most deadly psychopaths, and all hell is breaking loose. It's been 53 turns after the legendary Commander Zero graduated as a Congie warrior. Joe, now a battle hardened veteran, has spent his life surviving wars he had no right to survive. Yet his real test is coming: New forces are conspiring to start a great war like the universe has never seen, one that would rip apart the very fabric of Congress. Joe is conscripted to fight the very war everyone has been fearing since the rise of the Dhasha—the war against the legendary Dhasha Vahlin. Unfortunately for Joe, at the same time, other ruthless powers are conspiring to kill him before he fulfills the prophecy of the Trith. To fight the Vahlin, a desperate Congress comes up with a tactic it abandoned millennia ago—the use of multi-species groundteams. Joe, now a Prime Commander, is given command of his own team of misfits and pitted against the Vahlin’s forces in a war whose casualties are millions-to-one. Can Joe keep his group of aliens from killing each other long enough to make them into a battle-ready team? Will he survive long enough to kill the Vahlin? Or is he destined to destroy Congress, as the Trith have prophesized about him?

Planetside Ueshi don’t live long enough to train to be pilots—Congress doesn’t find it cost effective with their short lifespans.  Arius, who knows Ueshi are faster and have better reflexes than the rest of Congressional species, is determined to change that. He joined the Congressional Space Force and collected stellar marks all through basic training—only to be flatly told to pick something else as his specialty. What is a young, cockpit-obsessed Ueshi prodigy to do?  This is the story of how the first Ueshi pilot got his wings, setting the gold standard for all Space Corps flyboys who came after! Parting Gift The Huouyt weren’t the only sentient species that evolved on the Huouyt homeworld. While the Huouyt evolved in the oceans, the single massive continent was home to the Vanun, a species that spent untold millennia in constant struggle with their shape-shifting natural enemies. This is the story of the final days of the war between the Vanun and the Huouyt and how it was brought to an end forever.

Having dealt with the immediate threat of the mutated Warped, Earth Force and Unity are preparing to leave Earth’s Solar system. Their destination is the alien space station known as Hammerhead, a nexus for space miners venturing into the nearby asteroid field. Led by their captain, Nori, they will have to navigate their way through many aliens and cultures. They’ll forge new friendships and acquire resources and alien technologies in order to help the survivors back home. But their main objective is different: they’re hunting the person responsible. The one who gave the order to infuse Earth with the Tec. They will track him down at any cost to discover what he has in store for the entire human race. © 2020 Shemer Kuznits ℗ 2021 Soundbooth Theater

Back on Earth, armed with hard-earned technology and knowledge to aid humanity, the crew takes the opportunity for some well-earned R&R before heading back to Bryte.

Frank learns how saferooms work. Carl and Donut hit the gym.

The crew welcomes a new member into the fold. Patsy introduces everyone to an armorer, and a new threat emerges from the shadows. © 2019 Shemer Kuznits ℗ 2022 Soundbooth Theater

Earth is in the middle of an apocalyptic time-out. PlanOps Prime veteran, universal hero, and living legend Joe Dobbs has become an icon of heroism to the Congressional citizenry—but his real adventure is only just beginning. Humanity, unwillingly drafted into the alien Congress during its invasion of Earth seventy-four turns before, has done the unthinkable; building devastating genetic weapons that can kill even the oldest Dhasha with ease, planning to take the fight for its freedom to the very Regency itself. Before it can, however, the alien government discovers Humanity’s plans and retaliates swiftly, killing the experiments, destroying the labs, and reducing Earth’s technologies back to its Stone Age days to serve a Sacred Turn of penance for its sins. …Or does it? As Joe discovers, one lab gets overlooked in the chaos of Judgment. Its leader, Twelve-A, is determined to keep his fellow experiments alive—even if it means coercing a jaded, iron-faced Congie into helping them…

The Baga are under attack. When the savage, bloodthirsty miga continue to multiply on the planet Blekk, Ifan fears for the survival of his much smaller, meeker race, the Baga. When strange new visitors arrive in odd flying shelters and speaking a language Ifan does not understand, they save him from the miga, but he knows nothing of their intentions … Little does Ifan know, these visitors are on Blekk looking for a sentient race. If they do not find one, the planet will be terra-formed with all life forms to be wiped out – save for a small sample of each native species to be sent to the intergalactic Naturals Preserve. Of course, the Baga are sentient. Unlike the stupid miga. It’s up to Ifan to figure out a way to communicate with these visitors and prove his sentience and that of his people. If he can’t, his home, race, and entire planet will be annihilated. On the plus side, so would the miga. But that’s a large price to pay …

The conclusion of the best-selling trilogy! The name of the culprit behind Earth’s Calamity has finally been revealed, and it's one feared by all: Eater of Worlds. As the spearheads of humanity, it's now up for Unity and her crew to search for the means to thwart the inevitable ending, but for that, they’ll also need the support of every surviving human on the planet. And that's not so easily accomplished. Even as doom creeps closer, the majority of the remaining population still struggles against the endless hordes of mutated monsters. Before facing the ultimate threat, the crew must find ways to uplift the rest of humanity and reclaim their planet. Only then will the human race stand a chance against the final apocalypse. © 2023 Shemer Kuznits ℗ 2023 Soundbooth Theater

As the Eater of Worlds draws near to claim his prize, Unity and her crew must confront humanity's greatest challenge. With time running out, they must pull out all the stops and rally unique allies from across worlds. Together, they face a race against the clock in a battle for survival, their ultimate hope — the key to everything — lies in unlocking the secret of the "Relict Legacy."

Bryne: a planet swarming with deadly warped, but rich in advanced materials. Centillion: a barren world filled with danger and the remnants of a long-dead civilization. Just a couple of typical days on the Unity crew’s mission.

Carl and his new friends interrupt an intimate get together.

The crew begrudgingly sets off to Grotula 3 on NO_ONE's fetch quest. But the Aky scientist is more than meets the eye. © 2019 Shemer Kuznits ℗ 2022 Soundbooth Theater

Chapters 1-5 of Relict Legacy, Book 1: Earth Force 1 On the first day, a mist descended from the heavens blanketing earth. On the second day, a cryptic message, ‘Infusion commencing,’ appeared in the corner of everyone’s eyes. On the third day, the sick were healed and the crippled walked again. On the fourth day, celebration and joy spread across the globe. And on the fifth day, the warping began… There was no warning. A mist descended from the sky, disabling all technology and causing a mysterious message to appear at the corner of everyone’s eye. The situation grew even worse as animals and people started to warp, transforming into terrible monsters that prey on the living. Within months, human civilization crumbled. Unable to fight the seemingly indestructible beasts, the survivors are reduced to cowering in reinforced shelters. Waiting for the end to come. Helpless. All seemed lost until a few brave souls discovered the secret of their new reality: the Tec and how to use it to level up. Together they represent humanity’s last and best hope for salvation. But first they must find the answers to the mystery of their new existence. Their journey will require them to quickly adapt to alien technology, operate strange spaceships, and even befriend an extra-terrestrial merchant with an Inferiority Complex.

WARNING! Incomplete, UNSTABLE audio. Listen at own risk! Raw audio of upcoming audiobook No edits -- includes chatting, mess-ups, cursing and laughing Available for a limited time! (Until complete version is published to Audible) Attention. Attention. The gates are down. The hunters are loose. Run, Run, Run. A lush jungle teeming with danger. Savage dinosaurs seeking blood. A fallen princess intent on vengeance. A mysterious, end-of-floor celebration for the top crawlers, dubbed “The Butcher’s Masquerade.” The sixth floor. The Hunting Grounds. As the remaining crawlers battle for their lives, a new, terrible threat looms. Outside tourists are finally allowed to enter the game, and they are here and ready to hunt. Among them is Vrah, a famed and veteran hunter, intent on collecting the biggest trophy of her career. But their prey is far from harmless, and this season they are fighting back. Dungeon Crawler Carl and Princess Donut return in book five of the acclaimed LitRPG series.

Princess Donut’s dreams of intergalactic stardom finally come true.

The Earth Force finally returns home to catch up with Diamond and do some warped cleanup. But they're soon rudely interrupted by an uninvited guest... © 2019 Shemer Kuznits ℗ 2022 Soundbooth Theater

Carl and Donut briefly consider a business proposal. A bathroom break goes awry.

Skitter reveals his true identity, and the Earth Force crew must outsmart him, or prepare for subjugation.Skitter reveals his true identity, and the Earth Force crew must outsmart him, or prepare for subjugation.

An exploit is used to its full potential. Carl and Donut encounter an old friend.

WARNING! Incomplete, UNSTABLE audio. Listen at own risk! Raw audio of upcoming audiobook No edits – includes chatting, mess-ups, cursing and laughing Available for a limited time! (Until complete version is published to Audible) The most fearsome aliens in existence just allied with the universe's most deadly psychopaths, and all hell is breaking loose. It's been 53 turns after the legendary Commander Zero graduated as a Congie warrior. Joe, now a battle hardened veteran, has spent his life surviving wars he had no right to survive. Yet his real test is coming: New forces are conspiring to start a great war like the universe has never seen, one that would rip apart the very fabric of Congress. Joe is conscripted to fight the very war everyone has been fearing since the rise of the Dhasha — the war against the legendary Dhasha Vahlin. Unfortunately for Joe, at the same time, other ruthless powers are conspiring to kill him before he fulfills the prophecy of the Trith. To fight the Vahlin, a desperate Congress comes up with a tactic it abandoned millennia ago—the use of multi-species groundteams. Joe, now a Prime Commander, is given command of his own team of misfits and pitted against the Vahlin’s forces in a war whose casualties are millions-to-one. Can Joe keep his group of aliens from killing each other long enough to make them into a battle-ready team? Will he survive long enough to kill the Vahlin? Or is he destined to destroy Congress, as the Trith have prophesized about him? The Legend of ZERO: Zero Recall is the exciting continuation of the ZERO series, sure to delight fans of Science Fiction Adventure, Alien Sci-Fi, Space Exploration, First Contact, Galactic Empire, Military Space Fleet, Apocalyptic, and Space Opera Science Fiction.

WARNING! Incomplete, UNSTABLE audio. Listen at own risk! Raw audio of upcoming audiobook No edits – includes chatting, mess-ups, cursing and laughing Available for a limited time! (Until complete version is published to Audible) For lovers of Science Fiction Adventure, Action, First Contact, Military, and Space Opera, Zero Marked is a thrilling ride through Zero's first days as a Congie PlanOps graduate... Two turns after the events of Forging Zero, Rat and Joe finally finish their PlanOps training and get orders to their first duty station--a hellhole Bagan planet called Blekk--but first, a little good old fashioned R&R! Joe and Rat get set loose on the Ueshi pleasure planet of Kaleu with fourteen days and five turns' worth of credits burning a hole in their pockets, and they plan to make full use of it! But this wouldn't be a Legend of Zero if Zero didn't do something legendary, now would it? One would certainly think that a 15 day vacation to an Ueshi pleasure planet would be nothing but peace and relaxation... However, when Baga are involved, a lot can go sideways--especially when one of Joe's groundmates is a numbers-crunching, gambling-obsessed savant fixated on beating the house! Kidnapping, assassination, a splash of gratuitous violence, nailbats... Can Zero save his teammates from the bowels of a casino and salvage his vacation before time runs out? Will Rat get her revenge, or will her competitive streak go too far? Come enjoy the latest installment in the Legend of ZERO! Note: This is a stand-alone anthology. It contains a 66,000 word novella of Rat and Joe's first (chaotic) taste of freedom after graduating from PlanOps, as well as 4 ZERO world short stories averaging about 10,000 words each. This book is an stand-alone to the ZERO series and can be read in any order. The main novella sets up the next ZERO book to be published in June 2022, Mission Zero: Swarm.

WARNING! Incomplete, UNSTABLE audio. Listen at own risk! Raw audio of upcoming audiobook No edits – includes chatting, mess-ups, cursing and laughing Available for a limited time! (Until complete version is published) The name of the culprit behind Earth’s Calamity has finally been revealed, and it's one feared by all: Eater of Worlds. As the spearheads of humanity, it's now up for Unity and her crew to search for the means to thwart the inevitable ending, but for that, they’ll also need the support of every surviving human on the planet. And that's not so easily accomplished. Even as doom creeps closer, the majority of the remaining population still struggles against the endless hordes of mutated monsters. Before facing the ultimate threat, the crew must find ways to uplift the rest of humanity and reclaim their planet. Only then will the human race stand a chance against the final apocalypse.

WARNING! Incomplete, UNSTABLE audio. Listen at own risk! Raw audio of upcoming audiobook No edits – includes chatting, mess-ups, cursing and laughing Available for a limited time! (Until complete version is published) In this apocalyptic addition to the #1 Bestselling Legend of ZERO series, the PlanOps Prime veteran, universal hero, and living legend Joe Dobbs has become an icon of heroism to the Congressional citizenry—but his real adventure is only just beginning. Humanity, unwillingly drafted into the alien Congress during its invasion of Earth seventy-four turns before, has done the unthinkable; building devastating genetic weapons that can kill even the oldest Dhasha with ease, planning to take the fight for its freedom to the very Regency itself. Before it can, however, the alien government discovers Humanity’s plans and retaliates swiftly, killing the experiments, destroying the labs, and reducing Earth’s technologies back to its Stone Age days to serve a Sacred Turn of penance for its sins. …Or does it? As Joe discovers, one lab gets overlooked in the chaos of Judgment. Its leader, Twelve-A, is determined to keep his fellow experiments alive—even if it means coercing a jaded, iron-faced Congie into helping them…

WARNING! Incomplete, UNSTABLE audio. Listen at own risk! Raw audio of upcoming audiobook No edits -- includes chatting, mess-ups, cursing and laughing Available for a limited time! (Until complete version is published to Audible) A pantheon of forgotten gods. An old grudge between a talk show host, an heiress, and the man they shattered along the way. A rapidly deteriorating AI system. An inconvenient tiara upon the head of a friend. It is bedlam on the eighth floor. As management reels from the unexpected conclusion of the seventh level, the surviving crawlers stumble onto the eighth and find themselves scattered. It’s a map based on Earth’s final days before the collapse, where ethereal, intangible ghosts of humanity go about their lives, oblivious of the impending doom. Living amongst these ghosts are monsters based in Earth lore. “Legendary” creatures tied to the geographical location they inhabit. Each team of crawlers is given a task: find and capture six of these beasts. The captured monsters will be turned into cards. Cards that can be summoned into battle again and again. The stronger, the deadlier, the better. At the end of the floor, the bad guys will also have decks, and they will have some of the most powerful cards available. So it’s crucial to assemble the toughest squad possible. But, like always, there is a catch. There’s always a catch. As Carl and Donut know all too well, just because someone is captured, it doesn’t mean they have been tamed. Her name is Shi Maria. She’s easily the most powerful monster in their area. If they want to survive, they must capture her. But she is no ordinary beast. She’s intelligent. She was once married to a god, a god who is now missing. Her special attack is known to drive one insane. They call her the Bedlam Bride. “Beware, beware. Beware the Eye of the Bedlam Bride”