Feed
Paperback original, 2010
Feed (2010) is a post-zombie-apocalypse novel by Mira Grant, set twenty-five years after the Rising, when two experimental viruses combined to create Kellis-Amberlee, an infection carried by virtually every human being and capable of transforming its host into a zombie. Civilization survived, but everyday life has been permanently reshaped by the threat of amplification, with constant blood testing, elaborate security measures, quarantine zones, and a population increasingly accustomed to living behind barriers.
The novel follows Georgia and Shaun Mason, sibling bloggers selected to cover the presidential campaign of Senator Peter Ryman. What begins as political journalism develops into a conspiracy involving deliberate zombie outbreaks and the use of public fear for political ends. Unlike a lot of zombie fiction, Feed places the undead largely in the background, presenting them as a permanent hazard of the post-Rising world.
Grant also deliberately places the novel within the history of zombie popular culture. George A. Romero and his films exist in the fictional world, and Romero is remembered as an accidental hero whose movies taught people how to respond when the dead actually began to rise. Published in 2010, as zombies were becoming a major presence in twenty-first-century film, fiction and television, Feed reflects a stage in the genre when the conventions of the zombie apocalypse had become familiar enough to be reworked into political and social satire rather than simply a story of survival.
Paperback. First Edition, Paperback Original. Mass Market Paperback. New York: Orbit, 2010. ISBN: 9780316081054. #11494.
Very good.
The novel follows Georgia and Shaun Mason, sibling bloggers selected to cover the presidential campaign of Senator Peter Ryman. What begins as political journalism develops into a conspiracy involving deliberate zombie outbreaks and the use of public fear for political ends. Unlike a lot of zombie fiction, Feed places the undead largely in the background, presenting them as a permanent hazard of the post-Rising world.
Grant also deliberately places the novel within the history of zombie popular culture. George A. Romero and his films exist in the fictional world, and Romero is remembered as an accidental hero whose movies taught people how to respond when the dead actually began to rise. Published in 2010, as zombies were becoming a major presence in twenty-first-century film, fiction and television, Feed reflects a stage in the genre when the conventions of the zombie apocalypse had become familiar enough to be reworked into political and social satire rather than simply a story of survival.
Paperback. First Edition, Paperback Original. Mass Market Paperback. New York: Orbit, 2010. ISBN: 9780316081054. #11494.
Very good.