From Goodreads:A new short story from Mira Grant, the author of Feed. Every week five friends get together to play a game-- a game they call the Apocalypse Game. It's a fun time with chips and beer and plotting the end of the world. Except this time, one of them is missing and the stakes are higher than ever before.
The year is 2014, the year everything changed. We cured cancer. We cured the common cold. We died.
This is the story of how we rose.
When will you rise?
Countdown is a novella set in the world of Feed.
It was the summer of 2014, and the true horrors of the Rising were only just beginning to reveal themselves. Fans from all over the world gathered in San Diego, California for the annual comic book and media convention, planning to forget about the troubling rumors of new diseases and walking dead by immersing themselves in a familiar environment. Over the course of five grueling days and nights, it became clear that the news was very close to home…and that most of the people who picked up their badges would never make it out alive.
A Newsflesh novella from the New York Times bestselling author that brought you Feed, Mira Grant.
Stacy and Michael Mason are among the most famous heroes of the zombie apocalypse. Stacy, however, has fallen into a deep depression after having to shoot their infected son. In the aftermath of the pandemic, they start publicly documenting the recovery effort, which Michael hopes will take Stacy's mind off of her trauma and help her recover.
As they film the rescue of an enclave of orphans and report on the orphanages that have sprung up to care for traumatized, parent-less children, they begin to consider the last, greatest step of recovery: adoption.
Everyone had unleashed the virus; everyone had devoured the world. Everyone had survived. That was the key. Everyone had survived. But what about the people who didn't? What about the people who looked at the face of the changing world—the world that was never going to be the same, even if they made it out the other side—and decided to say, You know what, thanks but no thanks; I'd rather be a statistic"? Any disaster is going to come with a certain soft cost: a certain number of suicides and accidents surrounding the deaths that come as an immediate consequence of the event. I wanted to focus on one of those people.
The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop.
The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED. Now, twenty years after the Rising, bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives—the dark conspiracy behind the infected.
The truth will get out, even if it kills them.
My Review:
Well I absolutely loved reading these stories! I love Mira Grant's writing, I love how real the science feels, and they're just great stories! And this idea, that we brought about zombies in an effort to cure various illnesses, was such a compelling idea!
I'm not quite sure how The Box fit in with this series. I mean, it is similar to what happens in the following short stories, but it was different in that if you have the vaccine of the first, the second one will kill you, and series was about the combination of two engineered cures coming together to create a create zombies thing. So I'm a bit confused!
Countdown was just a little hard to read, it was a snippet of a day, of events that led up to the Uprising, and seeing how it all unfolded. And it was just so sad! So much pain and loss, and two big examples of stupidity that caused all this destruction. Bah!
I loved Feed, because it is set 20 years later, when we've had time to get used to the zombies and how to treat them. I really enjoyed watching them investigate, and I'm excited to see where the sequel goes, and to spend more time in this world!
Absolutely loved reading these stories, and I can't wait to continue!
Author: Mira Grant
Series: Newsflesh #0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 0.8, 1
Read: March 12th, 12th, 12th, 12th, 12th, 12th, 2022
Source: Ebook.bike, Own
Reason Why: Love her writing, and they're 2022 Dystopia Books and Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2022 Books!
Publisher: Orbit
Published: April 18th 2011, August 1st 2011, July 11th 2012, October 3rd 2017, September 1st 2010, May 1st 2010
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Countdown:
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San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats:
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All the Pretty Little Horses:
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Everglades:
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Feed:
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