Twenty years later, Kellis-Amberlee is still humanity’s largest threat though it has been beaten back and contained through strict testing and regulatory procedures. The virus infected animals (with sufficiently large bodymass) and humans alike, causing a worldwide panic, and an all out war with the undead. Those with weaker immune systems, those with direct, fluid contact with high quantities of the virus were the first to reanimate. But the new virus, Kellis-Amberlee, also had a peculiar side effect – namely, raising the dead. Sickness was invariably cured – cancer and the sniffles became things of the past. In an unfortunate confluence of events, the two viruses combined, creating an airborne hybrid that quickly replicated and swept across the face of the planet. Kellis created a bold new rhinovirus strain that would cure the common cold. In the year 2014, a young girl, Amberlee, was cured of her terminal Leukemia. Kellis-Amberlee – such a pretty name for such a deadly, combined virus.
Writing under the name Mira Grant, Feed was as irresistible to me as brains are to zombies.
McGuire would be writing an entirely new, totally different series – featuring politics, blogs and zombies – I was ecstatic. Why did I read this book: It’s no surprise that I am a fan of Seanan McGuire’s – her October Daye series is one of my current favorites in the Urban Fantasy (sub)genre. How did I get this book: Bought my copy (at the LA Times Festival of Books!) Stand alone or series: Book 1 in the Newsflesh Trilogy Accompanied by the rest of their blogging team, Senator Ryman’s staff, and a whole lot of caffeine, they might succeed…or they might finally answer the big question of their post-Rising world: When will you rise? In a world filled with the constant threat of both the living and the living dead, it will be all that Shaun and Georgia can do to keep themselves in one piece. Now, in Senator Peter Ryman’s run for the Presidency of the United States, they’ve finally found it.Īll they have to do is survive until the election. Adopted by the Masons and raised in the strange world of the post-Rising media, they’ve spent their lives chasing the next big story, the one that will allow them to break into the big leagues once and for all. Shaun and Georgia are orphans of the Rising, the cataclysmic event which left the world reeling in the aftermath of the zombie uprising. Publication Date: April 2010 (US) / May 2010 (UK)
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