A group survivors cling on, holed-up in a university building, surrounded by the undead. As the numbers of undead increase, becoming ever more aggressive, a squad of soldiers arrive bringing with them as much fear as they do hope. A novel about the undead that never uses the word zombie.
Autumn by David Moody
A virus rips through the population. Everyone just drops dead. Traumatised and afraid a few survivors take refuge in a community centre, and watch with growing panic as the dead rise. Autumn is an interesting twist to the undead genre, that deliberately avoids the word zombie. In the end it’s weight of numbers that is the real threat.
This Rotten World: Choking on the Ashes by Jacy Morris
As the apocalypse takes its toll both physically and emotionally, the remaining survivors of the original group head for the coast, and one more fight. This time for a new home. Of all the zombie fiction I’ve read of late, this series is my favourite. Morris weaves an interesting tale that could very easily see all five books as a trilogy of films.
Zombies!: A Small World by RS Merritt
“The Apocalypse will cause some to stand a little taller while others will collapse under the weight of it.”
This Rotten World: Winter of Blood by Jacy Morris
Snow falls on Oregon burying the world under an icy blanket of white. One group of survivors navigate the politics of a walled community, while the other deals with a cult and its leader. It’s more than just the gory action that keeps you reading, but the ever changing point of view offering depth to the story.
Life of the Dead: Road of the Damned by Tony Urban
More “non-stop action and gory details”.
Life of the Dead: Hell on Earth by Tony Urban
“Who will survive in a land overrun with the undead?”
Trailer: Netflix: Army of the Dead
I’m a big fan of Zack Snyder’s 2004 remake of George A. Romero’s classic Dawn of the Dead (1978). Snyder’s version is less of a social commentary than Romero’s but James Gunn’s screenplay has a punchy irony that adds to the gory thrills. I really hope the insanity in the trailer for Army delivers. It has the feel the third act from Snyder’s Dawn, that feeling of insurmountable odds.
There is one thing from the trailer that bothers me. I ‘m not sure about “smart” zombies. Just the idea of a strategising zombie seems to contradict the nature of being undead. I hope Snyder doesn’t give the zombies too much agency. Zombies are mindless agents of instinct, flesh eating monster, not wild animals.
The truth is, it really doesn’t matter what they are, I’m still going to watch the movie.
Apocalypse Z: The Wrath of the Just by Manel Loureiro
After escaping Lanzarote in a boat, our Spanish lawyer, the woman he loves, and his friend, the battle-weary helicopter pilot, are rescued from the open ocean, and taken to Gulfport, Mississippi. They’re offered a place in the stronghold, if they’re willing to submit to a fascist dictator and his brutal enforcers?
Apocalypse Z: Dark Days by Manel Loureiro
As the last “chance to control the pandemic evaporated and the virus began its deadly march, turning the pandemic into an Apocalypse”, Spanish lawyer, his Persian cat, the Ukrainian pilot Viktor “Prit” Pritchenko, the teenager Lucia, and Sister Cecilia, gamble everything, and make a desperate attempt to reach Lanzarote, hoping the island will offer protection, but instead find the living can be as dangerous as the dead.
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