Thursday, June 7, 2012

Newsflesh Trilogy by Mira Grant

(from miragrant.com) In 2014, two experimental viruses—a genetically engineered flu strain designed by Dr. Alexander Kellis, intended to act as a cure for the common cold, and a cancer-killing strain of Marburg, known as "Marburg Amberlee"—escaped the lab and combined to form a single airborne pathogen that swept around the world in a matter of days. It cured cancer. It stopped a thousand cold and flu viruses in their tracks.

It raised the dead.

Millions died in the chaos that followed. The summer of 2014 was dubbed "The Rising," and only the lessons learned from a thousand zombie movies allowed mankind to survive. Even then, the world was changed forever. The mainstream media fell, Internet news acquired an undeniable new legitimacy, and the CDC rose to a new level of power.

Set twenty years after the Rising, the Newsflesh trilogy follows a team of bloggers, led by Georgia and Shaun Mason, as they search for the brutal truths behind the infection. Danger, deceit, and betrayal lurk around every corner, as does the hardest question of them all:

When will you rise?
 

 
Shaun Mason is a man without a mission. Not even running the news organization he built with his sister has the same urgency as it used to. Playing with dead things just doesn't seem as fun when you've lost as much as he has.

But when a CDC researcher fakes her own death and appears on his doorstep with a ravenous pack of zombies in tow, Shaun has a newfound interest in life. Because she brings news-he may have put down the monster who attacked them, but the conspiracy is far from dead.

Now, Shaun hits the road to find what truth can be found at the end of a shotgun.


Rise up while you can. -Georgia Mason

The year was 2014. The year we cured cancer. The year we cured the common cold. And the year the dead started to walk. The year of the Rising.

The year was 2039. The world didn't end when the zombies came, it just got worse. Georgia and Shaun Mason set out on the biggest story of their generation. The uncovered the biggest conspiracy since the Rising and realized that to tell the truth, sacrifices have to be made.

Now, the year is 2041, and the investigation that began with the election of President Ryman is much bigger than anyone had assumed. With too much left to do and not much time left to do it in, the surviving staff of After the End Times must face mad scientists, zombie bears, rogue government agencies-and if there's one thing they know is true in post-zombie America, it's this:

Things can always get worse.

Blackout is the conclusion to the epic trilogy that began in the Hugo-nominated Feed and the sequel, Deadline.

5 comments:

andra lavander said...

un alt viitor in care omenirea este pe cale de disparitie, de ce nu poate toata lumea sa traiasa fericita si sa progreseze? pare, oricum, o poveste interesanta

Izabela said...

Da, se cam inmultesc seriile care prezinta viitorul ca pe unul sumbru si apocaliptic. Sunt interesanta totusi aceste carti pentru ca ne fac sa ne gandim la ceea ce ar putea fi daca nu luam atitudine.

CCAM said...

@andra - daca totul e bine si frumos ce mai e de spus? Scop indeplinit si trai linistit :))
Stii cum e vorba aia... oameni obisnuiti pot deveni eroi in timpuri de restriste

giddusadik said...

Stiam de primul volum, a carui descriere m-a cam speriat, dar nu stiam ca mai sunt inca doua volume

Mirela said...

offff, mie imi place descrirea desi e cam sumbra si putin infricosatoatre

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