Re: A Good Zompocalypse Book I'm Reading
Well my issue with a lot of the zombie books I've read and indeed films i've seen is with the exception of The Twelve they have all done very much the same thing, there will always be a crazy military/police person, someone trying to make their own empire, always the usual failed siege scene, the person infected by zombie virus who must be killed, the inevitable romance (often with a helpless woman rescued from the zombie hoards), the usual grief montage, the scrabble for guns, the long discussion of how bad society was to let this happen etc. Really all of these can be seen in the original I am Legend by Richard Matheson, the book first published in the mid sixties that the film night of the Living dead was based on, ---- heck all of this happens in dAy of the Triffids which was written in 1953 (while it has walking plants instead of zombies and a world population made blind it's remarkabl how similar it is to the usual zombocalypse, albeit a pretty well written on e being Mr. John Wyndham, though not imho his best book). The reason I enjoyed both We're Alive and The Passage series is that they did something very different, especially as regards realistic characters, it's also notable that both didn't just follow the standard zombie motief but had some different takes, the evolving zombies of we're alive and the different attributes of the jumps in The Passage.
Of course, there's nothing wrong with a good splatter fest. The film Zombie Land or the anime Highschool of the dead are both hilarious! but if I'm going to take the time to read a book I'd rather have something a little less predictable.
I'll certainly give Undying a try, though to be honest with Audio Defense, zombie exodus (which I played quite recently), and the other authors I mentioned I'll probably stay away from zombie fiction for a while, indeed I've just finished reading World of Ice and Fire, the history of the ga me of thrones world, and will now either grab some sf or go back to working my way through the earlier Dr. Who audios from Big finish, which i've been really enjoying.
Beware! Possible spoilers for The passage series.
Last I heard, City of Mirrors isn't going to be out until next year unfortunately. Regarding content, I do see what you mean sinse with The Twelve getting rid of most zombies and resolving a lot of the plots with the colony I wonder where else there is to go. I actually originally thought the "city of mirrors" mentioned was going to be the big zombie habitation which horace guilder was building in the Homeland for the Twelve, and that the last book would deal with the war between Texus and The Homeland and the destruction of The Twelve, although that didn't happen.
On the other hand, we've had hints about Manning and Zero throughout the hole series, and with the way the previous two books worked I don't think we� 39;ve heard all of the details of how the appocalypse happened, and in partiuclar the connection between manning and the virus, heck, it wouldn't surprise me if Zero was doing the same as Babcock and had his own little comunity he was ruling over somewhere, sinse it seems more people survived than was initially thought, and Zero has been a lirking presence in the previous two books so it's understandable he gets his own ending.
Btw, I'm also pleased there is another book sinse I didn't like where alicia was left. She's one of my favourite characters and I was genuinely shocked what happened to her in The Homeland.
My only miner issue with the Passage is Cronin going "oh well only survivers in America the rest of the world just stopped" which is a rather irritating viewpoint, I'd have preferd if he just left what happened to the rest of the world as an unknown, though he might answer this question later as well.
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