Product Description

Features five diverse tales of the living dead from zombie fiction master Eric S. Brown! SEASON OF ROT: Safe from the walking dead that rule the streets, a band of survivors holes up in a hospital. When their supplies run low, they must either migrate or trust a stranger who promises them salvation-except the stranger isn't who he seems to be, and neither are the dead. THE QUEEN: To escape a plague that has turned most of mankind into ravenous cannibals, a crew of survivors takes refuge at sea. But supplies only last so long, and the crew must face their enemies on land in order to keep themselves alive and afloat. THE WAVE: When a wave of mysterious energy from outer space washes over the earth, electronic devices fail worldwide and communications break down. Worse still, the energy alters human brain waves and turns billions of people into bloodthirsty animals. Only a small pocket of humanity is immune, but their only chance of survival may also be their grave. DEAD WEST: The Civil War is over. The Confederacy is gone. But in the West, a new threat is rising. Accompanied by a regiment of inexperienced soldiers, a journalist ventures into the frontlines of a war against the walking dead, and the truth he finds there is far more frightening than any living corpse. RATS: Rats are everywhere and can get into anything. And now they are swarming mankind. Those bit rise again as undead pawns in the rodents' onslaught, and no place is safe-no place except one. The problem is getting there before the rats' next attack.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #187033 in Books
• Published on: 2009-07-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 262 pages

Customer Reviews

Typical Zombie fare
The stories are all pretty straight forward zombie horror. We have fast zombies instead of slow. We have evolved zombies instead of stupid ones and your typical survivalist survivors of the zombie plagues. I bought it for a rather long flight home and since i am huge fan of zombie movies. Sadly I didn't find any of the stories really leaping off of the page at me and the characters all felt very flat and rather one dimensional. I had expected much more by the rave reviews on the book, and from the forward which read more like a dedication from a fanzine then anything else. I found Max Brooks' World War Z much more satisfying then this collection and would recommend that book over this one.

Broken Science, flat characters...
If you like gun fights and large numbers of zombies this is your book, but if you want anything else keep moving. Brown is clearly a master of the Zombie microcosm, but these stories feature horrible science (seriously, a radiation wave fries human brains but doesn't damage plants at all, then breaks on impact and flies back up out of our atmosphere and novas the sun??) next to no emotion and they are all the same plot with different causes for the zombies and different settings.

Eric strikes again - and the zombies are running scared
Once again Eric S. Brown drops another zombie book on us and shows us how it is done. The guy brings together 5 great short novels into a very neat package. I try to read stuff in order but when I opened this book I flipped straight to Dead West and read it in an evening. A western set after he civil war with zombies, how freaking cool is that?

The other stories are good but the last one is simply outstanding. Rats working for zombies was very original and in Eric's capable hands they become downright dreadful. This story is a real stand out in a book of already excellent stories. Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy, you can thank me later.