The Apocalypse Is a Side Quest: Book One cover art

The Apocalypse Is a Side Quest: Book One

Preview

Get 30 days of Standard free

$8.99/mo after trial ends. Cancel anytime
Try for $0.00
More purchase options

The Apocalypse Is a Side Quest: Book One

By: Liam Lawless
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Try for $0.00

Auto-renews at $8.99/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $28.63

Buy Now for $28.63

About this listen

Sometimes the best way to save the world is to ignore it completely.

Nathan Lee has exactly three talents: overthinking social encounters, avoiding responsibility, and farming in video games. When the apocalypse hits, he accidentally dumps all his rare skill points into… fishing. Just his luck.

Unfortunately, this isn’t the kind of apocalypse he can dodge by hiding in his room. Humanity has been ripped from Earth and dropped into a colossal multidimensional dungeon—a nine-realm gauntlet straight out of a nightmare. Legends armed with [Gigantic Sword of Doom] and [Fireball Barrage] are fighting to carve a path home. Nathan? He’s busy maxing out [Ability to Sit Quietly in a Boat]. He’ll leave the hero stuff to someone who doesn’t get queasy at the sight of blood.

Too bad the universe has other plans.

On his first day in the tutorial, he accidentally deletes a monster from reality thanks to a system bug. Then he feeds a snail radishes and gets a rare skill. Now he's taking down ogres with his fishing rod!? It turns out that side quest rewards and weak classes are more powerful than anyone expected.

So grab your tackle box and buckle your overalls. It's sink or swim in this side-questing calamity!

©2025 Shadow Alley Press (P)2025 Shadow Alley Press
Action & Adventure Fantasy Humorous Fishing
All stars
Most relevant
The summary is not accurate at all.. I was expecting a guy ignoring the story and fishing to keep himself alive and accidentally getting caught up in the plot and doing hero shenanigans… none of that happens besides the fact he does fish, just rarely it’s more just he fights using a fishing rod and is diligently performing the main tasks and occassionaly doing side quests..

If that is what your after then hope you enjoy, but I was expecting a guy fishing and performing hijinks on accident.. there’s not even much fishing.. please fix your summary and if I could refund I would.
Though as I said if what I’ve described is to your tastes please enjoy. It wasn’t entirely bad just wasn’t what I was expecting or wanting to listen to.

Not what’s on the tin

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.