Newsflesh – The Earthian Hivemind

Zombification, a first-hand report. I Zombie I by JacK Wallen

Steph P. Bianchini October 3, 2014 0 Comments

Last weekend I decided I needed a few hours of distraction. Zombie stories always looked to me a good pick, because even when they are bad, they manage somehow to grab my attention (by craft or by gore). Having exhausted the Mira-verse, I started…
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Book Reviews, Fiction

Cry Zombie Cry, Die Zombie Die, horror, I Zombie I, Jack Wollen, Newsflesh, the Zombie King, zombies

XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Countdown by Mira Grant

Steph P. Bianchini June 5, 2014 0 Comments

Countdown (2011) by Mira Grant / Seanan McGuire is a novella part of the Newsflesh trilogy and the prequel of the famous novel Feed, one of the most innovative zombies stories. It’s summer 2014, and two genetically modified viruses escape the…
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Sci-Fi Snippets

Countdown, feed, Hugo Award, mira grant, Newsflesh, Seanan McGuire, SF, zombies

Hail to the (Z) Queen – The Newsflesh Universe, by Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire

Steph P. Bianchini May 17, 2014 0 Comments

It started with reading Sci-Fi Magazine’s quote on the book cover “The zombie novel Robert A. Heinlein might have written” – a suggestion I could not avoid checking out. It ended with me reading everything – and I repeat, everything…
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Book Reviews, Fiction

Altered Carbon, Blackout, Countdown, Deadline, Fed, feed, Heilein, Hugo Award, Loncon 3, mira grant, Newsflesh, Rising, San Diego, Seanan McGuire, SF, SFF, virus, Worldcon, zombies