The ravenous zombie attacks of Mira Grant's Feed made the bestselling science fiction debut of 2010. Now the hoards swarm again in her new Deadline. Directionless and still recovering from his sister's death, Shaun Mason is a newspaperman without a story or the urge to get one. That changes radically when a Centers for Disease Control whistle-blower shows up at her his doorstep with evidence of a new rampant virus attack, he grabs his gun and sets out to uncover the truth about the next great plague. A powerful mass market paperback and NOOKbook original.
Judging by the reviews of World War Z, the epic zombie flick starring Brad Pitt (loosely based on the novel by Max Brooks), the next few months could very well be a glorious Summer of the Undead. And if you’re a zombie fiction aficionado like myself—or especially if you’re new to the genre—this could be […]
These are golden days for science fiction and fantasy, especially when it comes to the small screen. There’s less than a month left until HBO’s Game of Thrones graces your TV screen once again, continuing its quest to destroy your feelings. And last month, Neil Gaiman’s long-gestating TV adaptation of American Gods got a renewed lease […]
The Season 3 finale of The Walking Dead aired yesterday, which means millions of fans are going through the torturous process of zombie withdrawal. To ease that pain a little, I’ve come up with three extraordinary zombie fiction series to fill your days and nights until the fourth season starts back up, presumably next fall.
Some novels become living entities, spawning spinoffs in countless allied narrative forms. The Harry Potter series begat movies, a plays, and the Pottermore website; A Song of Ice and Fire currently spans five novels, a host of novellas and short stories, an in-world volume of lore, a blockbuster TV adaptation, video games, and countless other mediums. With that in mind, […]
In 2010, Seanan McGuire donned the pen name of Mira Grant and gave us Feed, an enthralling political zombie thriller (and eventual Hugo nominee). Now, after six years, two sequels, and a host of shared-world novellas, she’s going to the world of bloggers and infected bodies, and back to the beginning, in Feedback.