- Orbit
- 9781841498980
- $19.99
- Paperback - A Format
- June 2010
- 592 pages
- Science fiction
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Feed
The Newsflesh Trilogy
The good news We cured the common cold. The bad news Side effects include zombies.
The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED.
Now, twenty years after the Rising, bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives - the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will get out, even if it kills them.
Staff Review
Feed by Mira Grant combines both a dystopian future or the threat of an apocalyptic virus, making this book a match made in heaven – although it’s more like hell for those characters living on Earth in 2040. You see in 2014 some clever scientists cured cancer and also cured the common cold, but what they didn’t bargain on was that side effects included zombies. Bummer. Fast forward from The Rising to 2040 and what you have is an America divided into gated, heavily armed communities (the safe zones) and other suburbs considered to be ‘infected’ (populated not just by the human undead – but also zombie raccoons, deer, dogs etc). The sardonic tone of the narrator, Georgia, makes for some laugh-out-loud lines when describing the shuffling undead – such as ‘They’d moan in the end, once we were right on top of them. No zombie can resist a good moan when dinner’s at hand’. But don’t let this fool you, as you can be sure some serious strife will always be around the corner when it comes to Georgia and her zombie-hater brother, Shaun. Highly recommended for SF lovers and zombie fans.
Nicola Pitt, Little, Brown Publicist
