SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

Hello! I'm writing a sci-fi thriller about zombies, and want to read some more books to get familiar with the genre.

Any recommendations? Sci-fi books that are particularly about zombies, or happen before an apocalypse would be great! Thank you so much!

You've read World War Z, I take it. It's not your typical book, it's more like a collection of vignettes, but it's pretty good. More like alternate history than true sci-fi - but many would consider alt-history to be sci-fi.

My second suggestion is possibly not exactly what you're looking for, but it depends. James A.A. Corey's "Leviathan Wakes" is a true science fiction space opera, set in space and on stations, and it eventually involves some rather zombielike figures (it also happens to be amazingly great).

Jonathon Maberry's Patient Zero has zombies caused by bio weapons research. This same idea was also used in a couple other technothrillers.

Heinlein's The Puppet Masters has people effectively turned into zombies by alien blobs controlling them. Jack Chalker used a version of this for one of his books, whose title escapes me.

The Reapers of Mass Effect turn humans and aliens alike into a form of cyborged zombie, and there are novelizations there.

One of the most interesting takes on sci-fi zombies is in XOM-B by Jeremy Robinson.

Here is the SF Encyclopedia entry: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/...

Can I ask why you want to write a book about a genre you're unfamiliar with and haven't read anything in?

Are you reading The Walking Dead? It's a great look at humanity at its most extreme, both the good and the bad, in a post-apocalyptic zombie setting. It's worth it even if you watch the show, it's a little different and sometimes darker. One of my faves!

Also, I recommend this video about zombies and how their mythology has changed over time in pop culture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SdAC...

There is a lot to spark the imagination in there and help guide further research :)

Best book on zombies I ever read was Raising Stony Mayhall

recommendations: "The girl with all the gifts", "The passage" by Justin Cronin zombies/ vampire breasts... whatever. "To sail a darkling sea". "Mountain Man" by Keith blackmore.

1. The Good War: An Oral History of World War IIWorld War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks, might have familiar feeling to you if you remember or can look up Studs Terkel, a public radio guy from Chicago who interviewed all kinds of people and wrote books like Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do and The Good War: An Oral History of World War IIand many others.

2. The Walking Dead, Compendium 1, The Walking Dead, Compendium 2 and The Walking Dead, Compendium 3. There are also novels in this series.

3. Ex-Purgatory by Peter Clines. The series begins with Ex-Heroes, but I haven't read #1 yet.

4. The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

5. Hvza: Hudson Valley Zombie Apocalypse by Linda Zimmermann

6. Jews versus Zombies edited by Lavie Tidhar Short stories

7. Zone One by Colson Whitehead

8. West Kill Creek by Shawn Purcell

9. Zombies Vs. Unicorns edited by Holly Black more short stories

Read Under a Graveyard Sky by John Ringo. The best Zombie book I ever found. The first of four.