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FOREVER ZOMBIE:
A Collection of
Undead Guy Tales
Due: Fall
2009
Preview: Read one of the zombie tales from
Forever Zombie: A
Collection of Undead Guy Tales right now! Check out
Every
Death You Take, just one of the many tales in this anthology.
Publisher:
Night Shade
Books;
Reprint edition (January 15, 2008)
Language:
English
ISBN-10:
1597801054
ISBN-13:
978-1597801058
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 6
x
1.1 inches
Synopsis:
With this well-chosen set of postapocalyptic stories,
editor Adams provides a bit of everything that is best about the
trope, from bleak, empty worlds to beacons of hope in an otherwise
awful situation. Only Jerry Oltion’s “Judgment Passed,” about what
happens when a space expedition returns to an Earth to which Jesus has
returned, and the rapture has come without them, is original to the
collection. Stephen King’s bleak “The End of the Whole Mess” opens,
John Langan’s much more recent “Episode Seven: Last Stand against the
Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers” closes, and they are wildly
different. Highlights in between include Octavia Butler’s “Speech
Sounds,” in which civilization has ended because a disease has made
most people unable to talk, read, or do any number of
once-taken-for-granted things, and Elizabeth Bear’s “And the Deep Blue
Sea,” a brilliant take on a world laid waste and a devil’s bargain
that treads in Roger Zelazny’s manic footsteps. A well-chosen
selection of well-crafted stories, offering something to please nearly
every postapocalyptic palate. --Regina Schroeder
