about the book
Whoever said nothing ever happens in Iowa was wrong.
After a glass globe containing toxin breaks and combines with my best friend Robby’s blood, several people are infected. A few days later, six-foot-tall praying mantises hatch from all who were infected.
Praying mantises that are horny and hungry. They are Unstoppable Soldiers that can only mean a new world order on Earth.
There must be some way to stop the mantises from preying on the rest of humanity. But what is it?
This is a history of the apocalypse. Everything is true.
about the author
Andrew Smith was born in California and grew up in a family that liked to travel all over the world. He always knew he wanted to be a writer, but he never thought of publication. His parents opposed his desire to write, but he wrote anyway. He went to university to study Political Science, Literature, and Journalism.
While trying to figure out what to do with his life, he drifted from job to job. He has worked in a metals mill, as a longshoreman unloading bananas and imported cars, and as a musician, to name just a few. The idea to publish his books happened only when challenged by a friend. He has since published articles and short stories, along with his eight books.
Every book Andrew has written seems completely different from his previous books, he says, because he is easily distract and bored. He says, “I can’t endure sitting through things that I’ve seen done before, so there is a conscious effort on my part to try to do something that I’ve never tried and tell a story that I’ve never heard. You have to get into kind of weird territory when you put those constraints on your performance.”
Andrew today lives in Southern California. He has three tattoos from his books, and will probably get more.
Sources:
Author website
Author biography: Amazon
Author interview: Barnes and Noble
Author interview: The Loft Literary Center
Also by Andrew Smith:
The Alex Crow. Dutton Juvenile. March 2015.
100 Sideways Miles. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. 2014.
Winger. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. 2013.
Passenger (Marbury Lens, Book 2). Feiwel and Friends. 2012.
Stick. Feiwel and Friends. 2011.
The Marbury Lens (Book 1). Feiwel and Friends. 2010.
In the Path of Falling Objects. Feiwel and Friends. 2009.
Ghost Medicine. Feiwel and Friends. 2008.
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