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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I tend to prefer my zombie stories without the twist. George Romero got the formula right in my opinion.
Having said that, one very popular zombie book is Brian Keene's The Rising. I abandoned it, but I appear to be in the minority.
A father is hunkered down, trying to survive the zombie apocalypse, as you do. His wife and son are out and he's given them up for dead until he receives a phone call that sends him on the road to find his son.
Another one that is different is David Wellington's Monster Island. It's basically Escape From New York if the prisoners were zombies.
If you don't mind reading comics, you might like iZombie. The series deals with Gwen Dylan, a zombie gravedigger in Eugene, Oregon and her friends Ellie, a 1960s ghost, and Scott, a were-terrier.
Gwen can pass for a regular girl, but she needs to eat a brain once a month to keep from losing her memories and intelligence. When she consumes their brains she "inherits" part of the deceased's thoughts.
iZombie was turned into a TV series, but I never watched it. |
Zombie books seems to be one of those genres that is dominated by the indie movement. Correa's Monster Hunter International is the best known publishing house series that has zombies and that started as an Indie. John Ringo's Black Tide Rising series is by far and away the best treatment that I've read from a publishing house (or Indie for that matter) and you also have Max Brooks Z books. Past that, I can't think of any.
I agree with you on the George Romero comment. Give me shamblers any day!
Past the MHI and the Black Tide Rising series, I really haven't found any zombie books that I really loved and would recommend (I thought that World War Z was just ok). Every so often, I get the urge and try the first book from different series (long time original Night of the Living Dead/Dawn of the Dead fan. Didn't care for the remake though). Most of them are in the "ok, but don't really care to get the rest of the series" category. There were a couple where I did get the next book in the series, but those fizzled out pretty quickly.