anxiousThis is the weirdest feeling. Feed started as a thought-experiment, a way of studying the possible behavior of virological "zombies" in a post-Rising world. I wanted to poke at the idea that maybe, humanity was bad-ass enough to survive an apocalypse of its own making, and see if we could come to terms with the zombie virus, the way we've come to terms with so many other viruses throughout our history. It's less smallpox and more Marburg, not quite stopped, but...handled a bit better than it might have been.
It was always meant to be a stand-alone. Even when I was getting excited about the book, it was a stand-alone, no sequels, no second chances. But then GP asked me, when I was complaining about a particularly tricky plot point, "Why do your zombies have to be dead?" And suddenly, they didn't have to be, and I had to revise 200 pages of text...
...and there were sequels. Two of them. A trilogy, which wound up titled "Newsflesh" (after the original title of book one), but could as easily have been called "Seanan fucks with the Masons." And it was huge and scary and maybe I could do it, if I tried really hard.
And now the second book is coming out. And I'm both impatient and nowhere near ready.
When will you rise?
March 19 2011, 05:32:08 UTC 6 years ago
I'm a little late to the Feed party since I picked it up after devouring the audiobook versions of the October Daye series. Usually zombie books and movies aren't my cup of tea, but all I can say is whoa. I don't like to compare books normally since each author has his or her own style but I'm going to break that habit. For me Feed is on the same level with World War Z. I know this is getting a little long winded but Feed hit my new/politics junkie buttons and just felt, well real. I can't wait for Deadline, I need the Kindle and the audiobook version.
March 28 2011, 21:12:18 UTC 6 years ago