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		<title>Mira Grant&#8217;s Zombie Novel &#8220;FEED&#8221; Delivers the Antidote to Fear</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Östman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I picked Mira Grant&#8217;s &#8220;FEED&#8221; off the shelf at the bookstore, I didn&#8217;t have great expectations. This is thanks to the cover blurb, which I can only suppose was trying to capitalize on the success of &#8220;I Am Legend&#8221; (the movie, not the book). Without resorting to actually looking at the back cover of my copy, I can paraphrase: We cured cancer. We cured the common cold. In their place, we have walking dead things that are trying to eat us. Rise up while you can. Needless to say, it left me feeling somewhat unenthusiastic, but I was looking at my regular two hour commute and it was buy &#8220;FEED&#8221; or try to survive the horror of public transportation without any help from my favorite recreational drug. So I bought it. And boy, am I glad I did. &#8220;Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot&#8211;in this case my brother Shaun&#8211;deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens. As if we didn&#8217;t already know what happens when you mess with a zombie: The zombie turns around and bites you, and you become the thing you poked. This isn&#8217;t a surprise. It hasn&#8217;t been a surprise for more than twenty years, and if you want to get technical, it wasn&#8217;t a surprise then.&#8221; In just a few sentences, the opening of &#8220;FEED&#8221; did what the cover couldn&#8217;t: It caught my attention. And for the twenty-some hours it took me to race through its pages, it didn&#8217;t let go. &#8220;FEED&#8221; is quirkily intelligent. In Mira Grant&#8217;s world, people name their babies after George Romero because his movies helped save the world by preparing mankind to deal with the Rising of the zombies. In Mira Grant&#8217;s world, a journalism license requires serious combat training and bloggers like Shaun and Georgia Mason are serious journalists. &#8220;FEED&#8221; is impressively detailed. The virus that animates Mira Grant&#8217;s zombies is a result of the author&#8217;s seemingly obsessive need to research everything to death and its workings are described so minutely, I seriously considered locking my client into his room at night lest he expire and come looking for a tasty snack. (I didn&#8217;t. I&#8217;m a domestic health care professional, so that would be highly illegal. Also, probably not very nice.) &#8220;FEED&#8221; is quietly terrifying. The life of ordinary people, those who do not regularly risk their lives by seeking out zombie infested areas for the sake of great journalism, is seen in glimpses and is frighteningly realistic because it doesn&#8217;t feel at all far-fetched. Maybe it&#8217;s because &#8220;FEED&#8221; was published not too long after people had stopped carrying disinfectants in their pockets and wearing facemasks in the streets to protect themselves from the lethal-pandemic-that-wasn&#8217;t: The swine flu. Maybe it&#8217;s the economic climate, which has some of my friends preparing in earnest for the inevitable collapse of western civilization, but those glimpses of people cowering in...]]></description>
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		<title>Whitehead&#8217;s &#8220;Zone One&#8221; Is No Average Zombie Apocalypse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ElectroLund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new zombie book out by Colson Whitehead called Zone One. I know what you&#8217;re thinking: it&#8217;s already a crowded market. True enough. We&#8217;ve seen a rash of zombie films and books in the past 5-10 years, some orthodox and others reinventions of the zombie genre. This one appears to be a bit of the latter, adding some comedic elements into the mix, akin to perhaps Shaun of the Dead or Zombieland. I haven&#8217;t read Whitehead&#8217;s book yet, but today&#8217;s radio interview has me intrigued and hopeful for a fresh take: You can read the transcript of the program here.]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Post-Apocalyptic Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 17:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Clarke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top 10 &#8211; Essential Post-Apocalyptic Books There are so many great ones to choose from but which could be considered the best post-apocalyptic books ever written? You can read more about these books and find other great PA titles in our Book Store]]></description>
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		<title>The Fray by Phillip Bradbury</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 21:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Clarke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fray by Phillip Bradbury Book Summary: The story is set 2 Centuries in the future, where the world has become a desolate and unforgiving hell of unimaginable horrors. The human population has been decimated by a virus that turns its victims into marauding cannibals. The few survivors that remain exist in only a handful of barricaded settlements that are scattered across the horrific wasteland. The story follows Sera and Gabriel as they set out on a quest to fulfil a prophecy that could save the future of mankind. But there’s one big problem they must journey through hordes of deranged zombies; the victims of the Destrachan virus if they will have any hope of fulfilling it. Review: I have to say when I started reading this book it had a sense of familiarity to it, I couldn’t quite place it at first and it wasn’t until I got further into it that I realised, it wasn’t similar to any one book but to many! And that statement is in no way meant to question the author’s abilities, in fact quite the opposite. He seems to have breathed new life into the familiar, if that makes sense. Reading this book is almost like putting on a pair of your old favourite shoes, only now they seem to fit much better than you remember. I have to give kudos to the author for his ability to turn clichéd themes on their head and make them enthralling. Conclusion: I highly recommend The Fray the characters are believable and endearing, the topography is outstandingly realistic, as is the realism of the actions of the besieged settlements.]]></description>
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		<title>The Road Revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Clarke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Road by Cormac McCarthy  Summary: The Road is a Pulitzer Prize winning post-apocalyptic tale penned by the great McCarthy, it tells the story of a boy and his father trying to survive in a world that’s been devastated by an unknown disaster. The book chronicles their journey south as they try to escape the cold desolate place they’ve called home. But their journey is fraught with dangers as they encounter other survivors in the smouldering wasteland with horrifying consequences. Editors Review: This is one of the most memorable and powerful post-apocalyptic books that I’ve ever read. Not only does it make the reader question what it is that makes us human it shows the reality of the frailty of humanity; desperation and starvation on the level depicted in this book is something we’re shielded against in the modern world. It ultimately asks the reader how far you would go in order to feed and protect yourself and your family.  Could you make the ultimate sacrifice in order to stop the suffering of someone you love? Although at times it’s a very dark and psychologically frightening read it’s also filled with hope and optimism and the enduring love between a father and his son and it’s this balance between the two that makes this something extra special.]]></description>
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