Zombification Sterilization

Yamu said:
Feed was a great tale. I'd hate to call it something trite like "a zombie story for the new millenium," but it applies.

Where'd you hear about it? I had to get my copy off of Amazon, and the only reason I even knew it existed was because it was written by a friend of a friend of a friend.

Saw 'Deadline' at Booksamillion and didn't want to read it out of order, but they didn't have 'Feed'.

I was looking for feedback to decide if it was worth ordering.
 
Well, I enjoyed it, but I'm into that sort of thing. The main female protagonist has a few quirks more suited for a fanfic than an actual story you pay cash money for, but it doesn't end up coming off as too bad-- mainly, they just hammer on the inconvenience of it all a bit too often. The attitudes in the book and the general tone make it clear that this was written by one of sci-fi's new kids, sometimes almost reminding me of something out of cyberpunk for the role bloggers and the new media take, and it often reads less like a zombie novel than a post-zombie novel, or even a thriller.

It's one of those books that definitely reads like the author had a trilogy mapped out and needed to get a few things out of the way before she could really launch into what she wanted to do, too, so if that's a turnoff, consider yourself turned off. It's not at all uninteresting, though. She does a great job of building up this world, and you get a lot of detail on the post-outbreak society that a lot of other authors would handwave or overlook.
 
So I just finished David Moody's "Autumn: the City" - which as it turns out is his 2nd book in a four book series about zombies.

Pretty good stuff and decent writing. The 1st book is called "Autumn" which I'll have to oder now, and then books 3 & 4 are, "Purifucation" and "Disinegration".

You can check them out at his site: http://www.lastoftheliving.net/en-US

I think it's set in England, but there are no locations given. His zombies start out as slow and stupid and evolve - kinda interesting idea actually.
 
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