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These are the tales of the global zombie conflict, a fictional telling of stories from the beginning to the end of the zombie war, as expressed to the author by the survivors who were there. It is told in chronological order with the early beginnings of the crisis and how the handling and mishandling of what is an unbelievable problem causes it to expand beyond the ability to control.
I have to say that it is fantastic, a read of such brilliance that at times you struggle to believe it didn’t happen and that these memories aren’t yours. The survivors are tangible characters and the style and situations that are described are frighteningly real. Some of my favourites being the scramble in New York, or the Japanese hacker or the infamous Battle of Yonkers, all brought to life by very believable characters telling their first hand account, with the emotion and frankness you might expect from survivors of what is the greatest crisis to face the planet. The real cleverness of the telling lives in the subtlety of the stories and more by what is not said then by what is. The imagination of the reader is used to fill in the gaps and build your own picture of the situations.
Told on a global scale although with a mainly US slant, understandable as the author is an American, it moves around the world telling how the planet dealt and sometimes failed to deal with the undead, and how because of the crisis faced peopled failed to deal with each other. What amazes me is how much I hadn’t really considered about what such a war could mean. The sheer scale of everything, the refuges, the despair, the panic, the inhumanity. The world collapsing in on itself when faced with the end of the world as we know it.
In my opinion, one of the best, if not the best and most original Zombie books ever written. With the potential to be as influential to future generations of zombie authors as George Romero’s NOTLD an absolute must read.
It has a lot of information and expresses it as mainly hear say, so no real tactics can be drawn directly. That is not to say that there are no usable tactics, there are, you just need to look for them.
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