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AiZ: Alice in Zombieland
'AiZ: Alice in Zombieland' takes place in a world that is much like our own. The sky and water are blue just as the grass is green. Every day, people are going about their business, most just trying to make ends meet. Politicians still get on the television and lie to cameras and the good people of the world.
This world has one stark difference from our own – the living, and talking, dead. This is not an apocalyptic scene of destruction and despair (yet!), but hope for the living is dwindling with every waking moment.
William Lohman, a recently deceased man, held an interview that was seen by the entire world. In this interview, he told of how the largest pharmaceutical company in the world, Roslun Global, has been conducting secret experiments meant to revive the dead, among other atrocities. Mr. Lohman was taken quite seriously seeing as how he was obviously one of these experiments, what with the decay and all.
This interview knocked over the first domino in a long series of setbacks for Roslun Global, and the company’s greedy CEO Richard Roslun. Richard was not known for being subtle or calm, but he was known for getting results…at any cost.
Nine years has passed since that historic interview changed the world forever. People have learned to live with the idea of zombies, much the same way they learn to live with many modern diseases; it’s a terrible thing, but it doesn’t affect them. Until it does, that is.
Georgia ‘Gee’ Marie is a typical college student. She enjoys reading and hanging out with her friends, smoking a little weed and going to work. Her life is pretty mundane, until she returns one day to visit her father. Gee finds her younger sister being attacked by her mother, who has just finished feasting on the rest of the family. Gee and Alice are about to begin the greatest trials of their lives. Not only will their will to survive be tested, but the bonds that hold them together as family and loved ones will be pushed to their limits.
Gee and Alice are not the only ones to be affected by the terrible actions of Richard Roslun. Sam Ashe and his fiancée, Heather Young, have just moved to a nice neighborhood in Seattle. Their new neighborhood is beautifully manicured, right down to the last tree lining the street. This area was chosen for its aesthetics, but also for its safety. According to several of Sam’s favorite zombie reporting sites, a very low number of incidents have been reported here.
This is why Sam is caught off guard one night after an intense gaming session when he sees a shambling zombie. Thinking of his love, he heads off to save Heather from the inevitable zombie outbreak about to occur. Their path is not an easy one, and again, human emotions will be stretched to the limit. If you have ever been in love, and I mean true love, then Sam and Heather’s tale will grab you by the heartstrings and never let go.
This world has one stark difference from our own – the living, and talking, dead. This is not an apocalyptic scene of destruction and despair (yet!), but hope for the living is dwindling with every waking moment.
William Lohman, a recently deceased man, held an interview that was seen by the entire world. In this interview, he told of how the largest pharmaceutical company in the world, Roslun Global, has been conducting secret experiments meant to revive the dead, among other atrocities. Mr. Lohman was taken quite seriously seeing as how he was obviously one of these experiments, what with the decay and all.
This interview knocked over the first domino in a long series of setbacks for Roslun Global, and the company’s greedy CEO Richard Roslun. Richard was not known for being subtle or calm, but he was known for getting results…at any cost.
Nine years has passed since that historic interview changed the world forever. People have learned to live with the idea of zombies, much the same way they learn to live with many modern diseases; it’s a terrible thing, but it doesn’t affect them. Until it does, that is.
Georgia ‘Gee’ Marie is a typical college student. She enjoys reading and hanging out with her friends, smoking a little weed and going to work. Her life is pretty mundane, until she returns one day to visit her father. Gee finds her younger sister being attacked by her mother, who has just finished feasting on the rest of the family. Gee and Alice are about to begin the greatest trials of their lives. Not only will their will to survive be tested, but the bonds that hold them together as family and loved ones will be pushed to their limits.
Gee and Alice are not the only ones to be affected by the terrible actions of Richard Roslun. Sam Ashe and his fiancée, Heather Young, have just moved to a nice neighborhood in Seattle. Their new neighborhood is beautifully manicured, right down to the last tree lining the street. This area was chosen for its aesthetics, but also for its safety. According to several of Sam’s favorite zombie reporting sites, a very low number of incidents have been reported here.
This is why Sam is caught off guard one night after an intense gaming session when he sees a shambling zombie. Thinking of his love, he heads off to save Heather from the inevitable zombie outbreak about to occur. Their path is not an easy one, and again, human emotions will be stretched to the limit. If you have ever been in love, and I mean true love, then Sam and Heather’s tale will grab you by the heartstrings and never let go.
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64 pages, ebook
First published December 20, 2011
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June 24, 2013
Unless you've been living under a rock, you know by now that ZOMBIES ARE BIG! Okay, sometimes they're little, and they may or may not be able to take on an animal form, like a dog but never a cat, but REGARDLESS, they have the X-FACTOR as far as creepy things go and they are not about to go away anytime soon.
So with AMC's THE WALKING DEAD on summer hiatus, where do we get our fix of the dead, but not really dead? Well, Seattle writer Joshua Cook has a novel out that mixes CORPORATE GREED with LIFE AFTER DEATH, so you know there's going to be trouble brewing. But more on that later.
Let's talk a little bit about this book. It's not so much the standard, I've bitten you and now you're going to start to walk really slow and mutter something about brains kind of zombie story. It's more like the Frankenstein kind of zombie. You're dead. I'm going to bring you back to life. Uh-oh.
It takes place in a city where I can attest that at least one of the city ferries gets escorted by machine totting militia even as we speak. Seriously. Look out that window on the trip to Anacortes and see what I mean.
So, it's not really a stretch that if something bad were to happen there, all hell would break loose. Which is exactly what happens when the "zombies" start to attack. Our hero, Sam, of course suffers a terrible loss(oh, stop moaning about spoilers) before he meets Gee, who needs to rescue her younger sister from the Roslun Global corporation, the uh-oh guys mentioned above, led by William Lohman. (I don't know if this is a nod to Willy Loman of Death of a Salesman fame or not.) Ruslun Global has developed a serum that brings people back to life…with a few slightly more than minor medical issues.
Other reviewers have said that it ends to abruptly, and while it's true that there's no epilogue sending the surviving characters (see how I did that, without spoilers?) into the sunset, I was satisfied with the ending the author wrote, and I'm giving it 4 out of 5 HOWLS!
So with AMC's THE WALKING DEAD on summer hiatus, where do we get our fix of the dead, but not really dead? Well, Seattle writer Joshua Cook has a novel out that mixes CORPORATE GREED with LIFE AFTER DEATH, so you know there's going to be trouble brewing. But more on that later.
Let's talk a little bit about this book. It's not so much the standard, I've bitten you and now you're going to start to walk really slow and mutter something about brains kind of zombie story. It's more like the Frankenstein kind of zombie. You're dead. I'm going to bring you back to life. Uh-oh.
It takes place in a city where I can attest that at least one of the city ferries gets escorted by machine totting militia even as we speak. Seriously. Look out that window on the trip to Anacortes and see what I mean.
So, it's not really a stretch that if something bad were to happen there, all hell would break loose. Which is exactly what happens when the "zombies" start to attack. Our hero, Sam, of course suffers a terrible loss(oh, stop moaning about spoilers) before he meets Gee, who needs to rescue her younger sister from the Roslun Global corporation, the uh-oh guys mentioned above, led by William Lohman. (I don't know if this is a nod to Willy Loman of Death of a Salesman fame or not.) Ruslun Global has developed a serum that brings people back to life…with a few slightly more than minor medical issues.
Other reviewers have said that it ends to abruptly, and while it's true that there's no epilogue sending the surviving characters (see how I did that, without spoilers?) into the sunset, I was satisfied with the ending the author wrote, and I'm giving it 4 out of 5 HOWLS!
July 29, 2012
I read the novel on July 9, but am withholding review until the author's tour stop at my blog for Interview and Review Release, on July 29. On July 31, author Joshua Cook will guest post on my blog also.
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First of all, make no mistake: this is not one of the reprises of classic literature with the interweaving of the zombie culture. Alice is not a late Victorian tiny damsel who stumbles into a rabbit hole and meets zombies. This Alice is a very alert and self-aware young lady of sixteen living in the Seattle area. Following an unexpected and horrifying family crisis, Alice reunites with her stepsister Georgia (“Gee”) to escape their area, to fight off the zombie approach, and to solve the situation if they possibly can. As so often happens, bad leads to worse, and Alice herself is attacked-and more.
The fulcrum of this novel’s plot is hubris: the arrogance of a mega-global-corporation, but specifically the arrogance of one man who wants to play God and has no moral compunction whatsoever. All is greed-human life is valueless, except as it provides fodder for experimentation. Dr. Josef Mengele of the Nazi concentration camps would find this character a likely kindred spirit.
I don’t wish to give away the plot of “Alice in Zombieland,” but I’ll be happy to give away my high recommendation. If you love Zombies, read “AiZ.” If you think you don’t, please read it anyway. Not your ordinary “Zombie” novel, “Alice in Zombieland” and author Joshua Cook has a lot to say here about contemporary society, character, and hubris (and the Industrial complex hex). Read it and reap!
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First of all, make no mistake: this is not one of the reprises of classic literature with the interweaving of the zombie culture. Alice is not a late Victorian tiny damsel who stumbles into a rabbit hole and meets zombies. This Alice is a very alert and self-aware young lady of sixteen living in the Seattle area. Following an unexpected and horrifying family crisis, Alice reunites with her stepsister Georgia (“Gee”) to escape their area, to fight off the zombie approach, and to solve the situation if they possibly can. As so often happens, bad leads to worse, and Alice herself is attacked-and more.
The fulcrum of this novel’s plot is hubris: the arrogance of a mega-global-corporation, but specifically the arrogance of one man who wants to play God and has no moral compunction whatsoever. All is greed-human life is valueless, except as it provides fodder for experimentation. Dr. Josef Mengele of the Nazi concentration camps would find this character a likely kindred spirit.
I don’t wish to give away the plot of “Alice in Zombieland,” but I’ll be happy to give away my high recommendation. If you love Zombies, read “AiZ.” If you think you don’t, please read it anyway. Not your ordinary “Zombie” novel, “Alice in Zombieland” and author Joshua Cook has a lot to say here about contemporary society, character, and hubris (and the Industrial complex hex). Read it and reap!
July 22, 2012
I've never been a fan of the supernatural or of Zombie stories. As a matter of fact, I'm one of the first people to roll my eyes at tales of those preparing for the "Zombie Apocalypse." I wasn't sure how I'd feel about AiZ, but once I started reading, I was hooked. The stories of Alice, Gee, Sam flowed together with ease. The stories of the outbreaks made complete sense, even to someone who really knows nothing about zombies. I'm intrigued by Alice's condition at the end of the story, and I hope there will be a sequel. I'm hooked!
September 5, 2012
Loving it so far, reminds me of resident evil movie
July 10, 2013
Now that's a pile of Zombie tropes! Evil corporation experimenting with life and death: Check! Inevitable outbreak: Check! Zombie fanboy realizing he's in over his head: Check! And the list goes on. Nothing really new is brought to the Zombie genre here, but it's a capable, enjoyable bit of zombie fic, well put together and perfectly acceptable if you're really hurting for a zombie stories right now. It could be longer, there are plot elements that I'd like to see expanded on, but overall I liked this, if I didn't manage to love it. I'm given to understand this is part of a larger universe, and I'll absolutely read more set in that universe should I get around to it. Sometimes you just want a story with zombies in it, because that's a subgenre that you enjoy, and even if this book doesn't blow you away, it delivers consistently...
February 7, 2013
Story started out strong. Then it just kinda, well, ended. I would have loved to read more. More details, more story, an ending....I love zombie stories, and this one has serious potential, I just wanted more.
September 5, 2013
Review going live on cabingoddess August 1st. Will post here after it does!
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