accomplishedKellis-Amberlee unified the world in a way that nothing had ever unified it before, or ever would again. Cities burned. Nations died. Tokyo, Manhattan, Bombay, London, all of them fell before an enemy that could not be stopped, because it came from within; because it was already inside. Some escaped. Some lived. All carried the infection deep inside their bodies, deep inside their very bones. They carried it with them, and it lived, too.
The Rising was finally, fully underway. Mothers mourned their children. Orphans wailed alone in the night. Death ruled over all, horrible and undying. And nothing, it seemed, would ever make it end.
RISE UP WHILE YOU CAN.
May 31 2011, 21:43:45 UTC 6 years ago
June 1 2011, 20:03:04 UTC 6 years ago
Reading it... needs to be carefully timed. I have till the beginning of July to finish my Mythcon committee reading (one book to go) and the end of July for the Hugos, and I am of the quaint notion that one has no business voting on a fiction category (or dramatic presentation category) without reading (or viewing) all of all the entries in that category. And, I very much want to be able, for the first time in my life, to vote on the Hugo for Best Novel.
I'd already read Feed and Cryoburn, and I just finished All Clear / Blackout. Of the three, Feed is my pick. But, I have two more to read. And I don't think I get to read Deadline until after that. I want to make sure I am voting for the novel that is up for a nomination, not a series which gets stronger with every book. Why yes, I am confident that Deadline is going to be even better than Feed.
So, three books to go before I am allowed to read it. After that? Well... part of me wants to wait for the third, but I doubt I shall heed that part.