two more books!
I read Mira Grant's Feed a couple weeks ago, and since then, I've read the two full-length sequels, Deadline and Blackout. There are other stories available in e-formats, and I will get to them as soon as I can. The one about San Diego Comic Con in 2014 sounds good -- "Browncoats" is somewhere in the title, leading me to think Mira Grant is a Firefly fan. (Many geeks are, so that makes me like her more.)
No spoilers, though there may be some in the comments:
This is good stuff. Grant did her research on virology and made the causes and effects of these two fictional viruses believable, at least to this science-geek non-scientist who only knows conceptual astronomy. The emotional components were brutal, and I often felt weary at the sorrow and loss the characters felt. By the end, it isn't even really a proper zombie book; zombies are a by-product, something to be avoided, but at the core of these books are friendship, power struggles, action, family, double-crossing, and love.
I had thought the trilogy would be re-published next year in one volume, along with some shorter works, but I was mistaken. It's the eight shorter works coming out in a single print volume:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316309583/ref=wl_it_dp_v_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2Y3WL1SMU37QM&coliid=I2E5RSY4TMCYP8
So I will splurge on the three novels -- over 1800 pages in all -- if I get any Christmas money.
Back to the reading challenge after this! I will start on David Baldacci's The Christmas Train tomorrow, and it should be a quick read.
No spoilers, though there may be some in the comments:
This is good stuff. Grant did her research on virology and made the causes and effects of these two fictional viruses believable, at least to this science-geek non-scientist who only knows conceptual astronomy. The emotional components were brutal, and I often felt weary at the sorrow and loss the characters felt. By the end, it isn't even really a proper zombie book; zombies are a by-product, something to be avoided, but at the core of these books are friendship, power struggles, action, family, double-crossing, and love.
I had thought the trilogy would be re-published next year in one volume, along with some shorter works, but I was mistaken. It's the eight shorter works coming out in a single print volume:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316309583/ref=wl_it_dp_v_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2Y3WL1SMU37QM&coliid=I2E5RSY4TMCYP8
So I will splurge on the three novels -- over 1800 pages in all -- if I get any Christmas money.
Back to the reading challenge after this! I will start on David Baldacci's The Christmas Train tomorrow, and it should be a quick read.