Paradise Earth

When the ground quakes and blaz­ing balls of fire fall from the sky, a reli­gious sect inter­prets it as the ful­fill­ment of long-held prophe­cies fore­telling the end of the world. The mem­bers flee to their reli­gious sanc­tu­ary, believ­ing that this global cat­a­clysm is the por­tent of a new par­adise of eter­nal happiness.

Inside, one cold and starv­ing man strug­gles to hold onto his hope for the future. He’s sac­ri­ficed every­thing for his faith in the prophecy, includ­ing his fam­ily. As the tor­tu­ous night drags on, he grap­ples with a life­time of beliefs, and expectations.

If he sur­vives to see the par­adise earth, will it be worth it?

Par­adise Earth is a decon­struc­tion of faith at the end of the world and beyond. The first vol­ume of the tril­ogy, Day Zero, was pub­lished by Curios­ity Quills Press on Decem­ber 21, 2012. Week One and For­ever After will follow.

Reviews

“Day Zero is an incred­i­ble start to the Par­adise Earth tril­ogy. Math­e­nia has crafted a cau­tion­ary tale, but more than that he has crafted a human jour­ney from indoc­tri­na­tion and fear — to free­dom and com­pas­sion.” — Shane Crash, author of For­est Life [Full Review]

“Author, Anthony Math­e­nia, mas­ter­fully takes us along on a riv­et­ing sub­sur­face explo­ration of the [Jehovah’s Wit­ness] religion’s the­o­log­i­cal intri­cacy and aston­ish­ing mind­set.” –Bar­bara Ander­son, for­mer Watch­tower staff writer. [Full Review]

“Smart, believ­able, and cer­tainly blas­phe­mous to our door-to-door friends, Mathenia’s Par­adise Earth hits hard and hits home. I read it in four hours, with­out putting it down.” — Thea Isis Gre­gory, author of San­ity Vac­uum. [Full Review]

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