Stephen Jones
Paperback | Pages: 478 pages Rating: 3.71 | 1926 Users | 201 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Zombie Apocalypse! |
| ISBN: | 1849013039 (ISBN13: 9781849013031) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Zombie Apocalypse! #1 |
| Characters: | Zombies |
| Literary Awards: | British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Anthology (2011) |
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In the near future, a desperate and ever-more controlling UK government attempts to restore a sense of national pride with a New Festival of Britain. But construction work on the site of an old church in south London releases a centuries-old plague that turns its victims into flesh-hungry ghouls whose bite or scratch passes the contagion - a supernatural virus which has the power to revive the dead - on to others.'The Death' soon sweeps across London and the whole country descends into chaos. When a drastic attempt to eradicate the outbreak at source fails, the plague spreads quickly to mainland Europe and then across the rest of the world.
Told through a series of interconnected eyewitness narratives - text messages, e-mails, blogs, letters, diaries and transcripts - this is an epic story of a world plunged into chaos as the dead battle the living for total domination.
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| Title | : | Zombie Apocalypse! (Zombie Apocalypse! #1) |
| Author | : | Stephen Jones |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 478 pages |
| Published | : | 2010 by Constable & Robinson |
| Categories | : | Horror. Zombies. Fiction. Science Fiction. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic |
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Ratings: 3.71 From 1926 Users | 201 ReviewsCriticism About Books Zombie Apocalypse! (Zombie Apocalypse! #1)
Stephen Jones has done something quite interesting here - arranged for a group of authors to submit short stories in the form of documents (including twitter conversations, transcripts of police tapes, personal diaries and letters) to form a contiguous narrative of a zombie pandemic that erupts in London and the events of the following weeks.The 480 page narrative that results holds together well with good internal consistency and a tone whereby events are clearly out of the control of theThis book is one of the best I've read this year so far, and I completely fell in love with it as soon as I started reading it. Highly recommend it to anyone and everyone who likes zombies and horror.
This book was a bit of an impulse buy, largely made because I was told I could get a book for free as I had two from a 3 for 2 section. All I can say is that I am glad I effectively got it for free as opposed to paying good money for it.The concept itself is a good one, collecting an anthology of material from different authors and putting it all together like documents gathered after the event of the crisis. The effect was to be something along the lines of World War Z, and I was looking
What I find most interesting about this book is the reactions and reviews. People tweeting and texting as the zombies are eating them? Totally likely. People who doubt this honestly need to spend one day in a classroom with the youth of today to realise that yes, they compulsively tweet, text, and blog every mundane thought and action they have. And I'd like to see them deny the youth their "right" to do it, too. Anyway, I really enjoyed the format. The whole story told via several mediums and
Shitfuck!! One of the best zombie books with the odd nice touch of humour. Which I think you need when the world is going to shit.
Easy read! Even though it was choppy felt it was for more of a teen book. Ideal for readers first zombie book. I didn't like how it went from normal text to someone's email to someone's social media to someone's handwritten diary
I was hoping for a book similar to World War Z or Dead Inside Do Not Enter Notes from the Zombie Apocalypse. Instead, I got a book that started off strong, then...kind of fell off the wagon.The book sets up its premise wonderfully: an ancient church is unearthed, which released fleas that carried the plague. Correspondences and reports fly back and forth to piece together a timeline of events, the reaction of the first on the scene, then the epidemic spreads...then you get to the second half of
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