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"When the Final Trumpet gets called, All Earth Breaks Loose On Hell."

The Salvation War is a Web Original trilogy that premiered online in the beginning of 2008, asking a simple question: what if God announced that everyone's time was up, and that Satan was coming to claim the bodies and souls of everyone on earth?

The answer author Stuart Slade gives is simple: the governments of the world declare war on Heaven and Hell, and bring upon them all the might of the modern military services aided by every single technological advancement we've made since the Bible Times.

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In short, the series can be summarized as war fiction heavy on Technology Porn in the vein of Larry Bond or John Ringo that goes on a ramming course in order to viciously deconstruct apocalyptic Religious Horror along the lines of The Taking or the hard-handed evangelism of Left Behind.

The first book, Armageddon??? , follows the fight against the forces of Hell, and all the tasks that must be accomplished to win first that fight, and then the one against Heaven itself.

From The Amazing Randi trying to discover how to peer into Hell, to the rampaging demons that appear in civilian areas around the world, to all of Humanity mobilizing for war, the story covers a worldwide stage. The second volume, Pantheocide, concerns the war with Heaven and shows that the forces of Heaven are far better commanded and more dangerous than the forces of Hell.

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Armageddon??? and Pantheocide can be found in this forum . These are first-draft raw copy.

Allegedly due to the creation and spread of a torrent of the stories, The Salvation War is now radioactive as far as publishers are concerned. Without this incentive, it appeared as though the third part of the series, The Lords of War, was not going to be written, although the author did publish some details about the intended plot in late 2014. By late 2019, he appears to have changed his mind, with the third story being published one part at a time on an uncertain schedule. Though this story cannot be monetized either, the author is writing it anyway, albeit at a slower pace, out of a desire to finally continue the story. As of July 2020, the first four parts of The Lords of War have been published thus far to the same forum, with the latest entry in March.

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