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Grant, Mira. Feed. New York: Orbit Books, 2010.
I feel like I spend a lot of these introductory paragraphs disclaiming any particular interest in whatever trend/subgenre of which the book I'm talking about is part, and I should stop doing that. That said, this is the first zombie book I can recall reading, and I enjoyed it. It's also been nominated for a Hugo Award for best novel, and looking at the ballot, I wouldn't be disappointed to see it win. Here's something I should disclaim: I am acquainted with the author, which is part of why I read this book, but not why I liked it.
I remember reading at one point, some years ago, in Newsweek an anonymous quote from some Hollywood screenwriter who claimed to have written a script very similar to The Matrix, except that unknown script didn't have kung fu. Feed, the first book in a trilogy (Deadline is out as of last week), takes the time-honored zombie apocalypse concept and marries it to some very well thought-out explorations of what journalism, and U.S. society, would look like 26 years after the zombie apocalypse, or as it's called, the Rising. If one half of the sibling duo of bloggers, Georgia Mason, the book's narrator, is named for George Romero, it shouldn't have taken me so long to realize why her brother Shaun Mason has the name he does.
( Of zombies, page views, and presidential campaigns ) I'll be picking up Deadline when I get a chance, since the news cycle doesn't end, and neither does the potential for an outbreak.
I embed the (non-spoilery) trailer for the first two books below:
Happy hunting.
I feel like I spend a lot of these introductory paragraphs disclaiming any particular interest in whatever trend/subgenre of which the book I'm talking about is part, and I should stop doing that. That said, this is the first zombie book I can recall reading, and I enjoyed it. It's also been nominated for a Hugo Award for best novel, and looking at the ballot, I wouldn't be disappointed to see it win. Here's something I should disclaim: I am acquainted with the author, which is part of why I read this book, but not why I liked it.
I remember reading at one point, some years ago, in Newsweek an anonymous quote from some Hollywood screenwriter who claimed to have written a script very similar to The Matrix, except that unknown script didn't have kung fu. Feed, the first book in a trilogy (Deadline is out as of last week), takes the time-honored zombie apocalypse concept and marries it to some very well thought-out explorations of what journalism, and U.S. society, would look like 26 years after the zombie apocalypse, or as it's called, the Rising. If one half of the sibling duo of bloggers, Georgia Mason, the book's narrator, is named for George Romero, it shouldn't have taken me so long to realize why her brother Shaun Mason has the name he does.
( Of zombies, page views, and presidential campaigns ) I'll be picking up Deadline when I get a chance, since the news cycle doesn't end, and neither does the potential for an outbreak.
I embed the (non-spoilery) trailer for the first two books below:
Happy hunting.