Penguin India to Publish Matt Dinniman's 'Carl's Doomsday Scenario'

The training levels are officially over. Carl and Princess Donut have made it to the third floor of the alien-run dungeon, where staying alive is only part of the challenge. Their growing popularity among the galaxy’s viewers has turned survival into a spectacle—and their ratings are soaring.

But the dungeon is getting deadlier.

Carl and Donut are thrown into the Over City, a once-thriving metropolis devastated by a mysterious calamity. The city may look abandoned, but it is anything but empty. An undead circus stalks the streets, something strange is unfolding in the skies, and an ancient spell is finally ready to reveal its purpose.

As increasingly bizarre quests, dangerous creatures and unpredictable dungeon mechanics pile up, Carl and Donut must work out what is happening before the dungeon works it out for them.

The result is a gleefully chaotic collision of dark science fiction, fantasy, video-game mechanics, survival adventure and outrageous comedy. Carl is still battling the increasingly unhinged rules of Dungeon Crawler World, while Princess Donut—feline royalty, diva and unlikely dungeon survivor—continues to make it abundantly clear that she is the one everyone should be listening to.

Following Dungeon Crawler Carl, Carl’s Doomsday Scenario raises the stakes with stranger quests, more dangerous enemies, bigger challenges and an audience of aliens that simply cannot look away.

Fast, funny, chaotic and gloriously weird, Carl’s Doomsday Scenario is an apocalyptic adventure for readers who like their end-of-the-world stories packed with monsters, mayhem, video-game mechanics, reality-TV absurdity—and one very demanding cat.

Matt Dinniman is a million-copy Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling writer and artist from Gig Harbor, Washington. He is the author of the bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series, along with several other books about the end of the world. He doesn’t really hate Cocker Spaniels, and he plays bass in two bands.