#feed newsflesh

[wolverinedoctorwho]

Since it's officially Spooky Month, here's a list of zombie books I've read and enjoyed!

Age ranges based off my experiences reading them:

Adult Book. No kids allowed. - Zombie Inc, Mountain Man. Adult Book. Kids might be ok. - Death Warmed Over, Feed. Young Adult Book. - The Enemy, Rot and Ruin, Generation Dead, The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Alice in Zombieland, Deck Z, Sweet. Kids Book, but teens may still like it. - My Rotten Life.

If any of these look interesting to you, go check them out! If I had to pick favorites from this list they would probably be all four of the adult books, Sweet, and My Rotten Life.

Feel free to reblog with your own recommendations!

#ok to reblog #zombie books #zombie inc #mountain man #dan shamble #feed newsflesh #the enemy #rot and ruin #generation dead #the forest of hands and teeth #alice in zombieland #deck z the titantic #sweet book #my rotten life #book recommendations #book recs #I read all of these specifically from the ages of 12-15 but i also have a history of reading above my age #so i went pretty conservative which which books were adult only #based off my memory of the gorier scenes themes and language in them

[leveragehunters]

Feed is on sale! For 2.99!

Amazon link.

This is a bloody incredible series, and it hits even harder now that we've experienced a full blown pandemic. It's takes place in a world where we won a zombie apocalypse, but I describe it as: "It's about zombies the same way Animal Farm is about pigs."

Seanan McGuire AKA Mira Grant gives an overview of the series in this fantastic interview (from 2012):

The basic concept behind the Newsflesh trilogy is that in 2014 the Zombie Apocalypse happened, and it took us about three years, but around 2017, 2018, we actually managed to win. A lot of people died, a lot of land was permanently ceded, but we came out on top. So 20 years pass, and you have an entire generation of people that’s grown up in a world where zombies just are. They’re not something special. They’re not something exciting. They just are. And people go on, people do what they do.

It also includes gems like:

I would call [the CDC] back and say, “If I did this, this, this, this, this and this, could I raise the dead?” And every single time they would say, “No.” And I’d say, “OK,” hang up, and go back to working. After about the 17th time, I called and said, “If I did this, this, this, this, this, this and this, could I raise the dead?” And got, “Don’t … don’t do that.” And at that point, I knew I had a viable virus.

#seanan mcguire #mira grant #zombies #newsflesh #highly highly recommend #series and interview both #i took my own picture of the cover because I wasn't happy with any of the ones I found online [alt text in image] #Feed my beloved

[after-the-end-times2]

#mira grant #seanan mcguire #zombie fiction #zombies #post apocalyptic #apocalyptic #zombie apocalypse #feed #blackout #deadline #newsflesh #becks #Rebecca atherton #shaun mason #georgia mason

[breath-of-fresh-eyre]

Book: Feed (Newsflesh #1)

Author: Mira Grant

Dates: Apr 2023 (finished ~3 days later)

Reread? Yes

Recommended By: Ananana, as being her favorite book

Notes: I don't think there's a single post-apocalypse book I like better. What if we survived the zombie outbreak? How did it change us? I love that you think it's a zombie book but it's, like, journalism and political thriller? With zombies.

#FEED #Mira Grant #Newsflesh #read2023 #reread

[dandydanja]

Sorry not sorry for the spam of reblogs about a book series that came out over a decade ago, it’s taken me a decade to get over my devastation from the first book and finish the damn thing

#newsflesh #feed #deadline #blackout #Mira grant #georgia mason #Shaun Mason

[dzelonis]

Mira Grant - Feed (Newsflesh #1)

Mira Grant – Feed (Newsflesh #1)

Links uz grāmatas Goodreads lapu Manas pārdomas Kādā paralēlā pasaulē 2014.gads ir bijis tas liktenīgais gads apokalipses pienākšanas ziņā, kad pasauli pāršalc spēcīga pandēmija. Nez kuram bija tā spožā ideja, ka gaisā izsmidzinātas zāles pret parastu saaukstēšanos un visa veida vēžiem ir laba ideja, bet, ko dīvainā kārtā nebija paredzējuši, ka pasaulē atradīsies fanāti, kuri tajā saskatīs…

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#audiogrāmata #Feed #Horror #klausāmgrāmata #Mira Grant #Newsflesh #Post Apocalyptic #SFF #Zombies #zombiji

[recurringzombiedreams]

This book hits different after covid…

#feed #the Newsflesh trilogy

[seananmcguire]

When I was reading the Newsflesh trilogy, I perceived a significant difference in approach to the story in the latter two books.

If you feel comfortable sharing, I am interested in hearing about the inspiration behind the trilogy's final product, with particular attention to how the fantastic ending of the first book may have challenged you to think outside of the box for its sequels.

Even if you aren't able to get back to me, Thank you in advance! Have a great day :)

Oooo craft question! Okay, so:

First, background. The Newsflesh trilogy consists of Feed, Deadline, and Blackout, published under the Mira Grant byline, and released in 2010, 2011, and 2012, respectively. I love them a lot. They're still very solid, and while I wish the world had become less committed to playing them out in real time (like, seriously, universe, a 10th anniversary edition would have been better than a real plague), I continue to believe they're some of my finest work.

Feed got me my first Hugo nomination.

Feed was also written before it was sold, which meant I wrote it with the full awareness that I might have to be comfortable with the ending falling exactly where it did on the page. So I did that. And then we sold it to @dongwonsong-blog at Orbit, and they made sure it became the best book it could be. Which opened the door to, yeah, sequels.

Books two and three were written with the knowledge that I would be able to finish the story and end it the way I wanted to, and that influenced absolutely everything. There's a lot I can't answer on a public platform--if you want something more in-depth, please email through my website contact form--but the books feel different in part because only Feed was written in true free-fall.

[nellasbookplanet]

Book recs: great, unique and creative worldbuilding in sci-fi

A note: most of the books on this list are ones I cherish very highly (some are on my all time favorites list!). A few had a lower overall rating for me personally but still stellar worldbuilding and are of what I'd consider good objective quality even if I subjectively didn’t super enjoy them.

For details on the books, continue under the readmore!

Other book rec posts:

Really cool fantasy worldbuilding

Mermaid books

Dark sapphic romances

Vampire books

Feed (Newsflesh series) by Mira Grant

Zombies and news bloggers and presidential elections, oh my! A look at the world post-post zombie apocalypse, when society has gotten back to its feet but the zombie virus is still very much active. Humanity as a whole has been forced to adapt to the ever-present threat. Largely political, character and worldbuilding focused. There is some zombie action, but it’s far from the central focus.

Shades of Grey (Shades of Grey series) by Jasper Fforde

Walking the very thin line of giving you just enough information to follow the plot and grasp the overall idea of the world, but not enough to create info dumps or hand you answers not yet earned, Shades of Grey presents a world in black and white, where your perception of color determines your place in society. Is it fantasy? Scifi? Post apocalypse? Who knows! I sure don’t! Occasionally it hands you a tidbit of information that seems like a remnant of our world and you feel like you're onto something, but then some pages later said tidbit is turned on its head and you're back to square one. It’s delightful.

This Alien Shore (Alien Shores series) by C.S. Friedman

Space opera in which humanity found a way to faster than light travel and began establishing colonies all over the galaxy, only to belatedly realize the method of FTL caused irreversible mutations and disabilities and leaving their nascent colonies to die. Much later, many of the colonies have survived and thrived, and one has found a new way of FTL travel, allowing an interconnected space society to grow. However, Earth is on the hunt for their method and is prepared to do anything to steal it. Aside from cool worldbuilding, This Alien Shore also features some interesting commentary on disability and accommodation. And there are extra-dimensional space dragons!

Ninefox Gambit (Machineries of Empire trilogy) by Yoon Ha Lee

Military space opera where belief and culture shape the laws of reality, causing all kinds of atrocities as empires do everything in their power to force as many people as possible to conform to their way of life to strengthen their technology and weapons. It’s also very queer, with gay, lesbian and trans major characters, albeit little to no romance.

Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch series) by Ann Leckie

Another space opera, in which sentient spaceships can walk the ground in stolen human bodies, so called ancillaries. One of these ancillaries, the sole survivor after the complete destruction of her ship and crew, is one the hunt for revenge. This series also does very cool things with gender!

The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur series) by Hannu Rajaniemi

Place this one in the category of 'accept that you're gonna be confused as hell and just let the world wash over you'. The singularity has come and gone and humans can now easily upload, download and copy themselves into new bodies, not all of them human and not always willingly. Consciousnesses and time has become something close to currency. Follows a murder mystery on Mars.

Stray (Touchstone trilogy) by Andrea K. Höst

Young Adult. Cassandra accidentally walks through a wormhole and ends up on another planet, where she tries to survive in the abandoned ruins of a long since gone civilization. When rescue finally arrives, she soon finds her troubles are far from over as she gets embroiled in a war between her rescuers and monstrous creatures from dreamlike other dimensions. Mixes scifi elements such as space travel, vr and nanomachinery with fantasy tropes such as psychic powers, monsters, and interdimensional portals.

The Peacekeeper (The Good Lands series) by B.L. Blanchard

Alternate history in which Europe never colonized the Americas. Follow Ojibwe detective Chibenashi as he travels from his small home village to a city of living skyscrapers to solve a murder. While I found the mystery somewhat lacking, the worldbuilding and look at a contemporary North America never touched by European colonization is absolutely aces.

The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden

South African-set scifi featuring gods ancient and new, robots, dik-diks, and a gay teen with mind control abilities. An ancient goddess seeks to return to her true power no matter how many humans she has to sacrifice to get there. A little bit all over the place but very creative and fresh.

Leech by Hiron Ennes

I mean, this is probably scifi? Like Shades of Grey it hands you only just enough information to get by, and whether its historical fantasy, an alternate timeline, or futuristic post apocalypse is hard to determine. A sentient hive mind have taken over the entire medical profession to ensure the health of their host species. One of their doctors is sent off to an isolated location where they’re cut off from the rest of the hive mind, only to realize they’re faced with a rivaling parasitic entity.

Children of Time (Children of Time series) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Millenia and generation spanning scifi. After the collapse of an empire, a planet once part of a project to uplift other species to sentience is left to develop on its own, resulting not in the intelligent monkeys once intended but in sentient giant spiders. Millenia later, what remains of humanity arrives looking for a new home.

Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre

A classic following a healer as she travels a post apocalyptic Earth with an alien dreamsnake to help people. When her snake dies, she must go on a journey to find a new one. The worldbuilding feels fairly vague, but not in an annoying way but in one that makes the world feel vast and mysterious and lived in. Just like in the real world you won’t get all the answers, but you do get the feeling of the world as a whole being much larger than the character and her quest.

The Outside (The Outside trilogy) by Ada Hoffman

AKA the book the put me in an existenial crisis. Souls are real, and they are used to feed AI gods in this lovecraftian inspired scifi where reality is warped and artifical gods stand against real, unfathomable ones. Autistic scientist Yasira is accused of heresy and, to save her eternal soul, is recruited by post-human cybernetic 'angels' to help hunt down her own former mentor, who is threatening to tear reality itself apart.

The Three-Body Problem (The Three-Body Problem series) Cixin Liu

While I felt the characters could’ve been better developed, this is undeniably a well-written novel featuring an alien race and culture developed on a planet vastly different from ours. Firmly in the realm of hard scifi, this is a realistic, fascinating and slightly terrifying look at how first contact may look.

Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

Eurovision in space! If you lose, humanity is doomed! Good luck! The sentient species of the galaxy have chosen to face each other not in war but in a musical contest, and now humanity is invited to partake. The problem? If we lose, our species as a whole will be exterminated. While I found this book as a whole slightly gimmicky, it’s a fun and flashy experience with some wild and creative alien species.

Escaping Exodus (Escaping Exodus series) by Nicky Drayden

Seske is the heir to the leader of a clan living inside a gigantic, spacefaring beast, of which they frequently need to catch a new one to reside in as their presence slowly kills the beast from the inside. While I found the ending rushed with regards to plot and character, the worldbuilding is very fresh and the overall plot of survival and class struggle an interesting one.

The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley

More fucked up biological spaceships, this time all women edition! It’s weird, it's gross, there’s So Much Viscera, it has biotech but in the most horrific way imaginable. Had I to categorize it I would call it grimdark military sf. It’s an experience but not necessarily a pleasant one. Features a mass of slowly dying world-ships, and the conflicts arising between them as they struggle to survive. It’s also sapphic but not what I'd call romantic.

Isle of Broken Years by Jane Fletcher

Young spanish noblewoman Catalina thinks she’s done for when the ship she’s traveling on is attacked by pirates and she’s captured. Things gets worse when the entire crew is stranded on an inhospitable island where time works strangely, dangerous monsters terrorize the woods and something alien stops them from leaving. Strong Lost vibes. Lesbian romance. Admittedly quite indulgent but very fun and creative.

Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang

Slow and long and literary, Vagabonds presents a world a hundred years post a war of independence between Earth and Mars, after which two vastly different societies have grown. A close look at the impossibility of a utopia and how different circumstances allow for different cultures to grow, and how the two aren’t always compatible while neither is necessarily better or worse than the other.

Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines quartet) by Philip Reeve

Young Adult. On a barely survivable Earth humanity has taken to living on great wandering cities, hunting each other across the plains for resources. Tom lives in London, but when he intervenes to stop a murder, he falls off the city alongside a strange and hostile girl on the hunt for revenge. Aside from excellent worldbuilding this also features one of my most favorit female characters ever in Hester Shaw. If you’ve seen the movie, forget about it and read the book instead.

Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota series) by Ada Palmer

Centuries in the future, humanity has deliberatly engineered society to be as utopian as possible, politically, socially, sexually, religiously. Written in an enlightenment style and featuring questions of human nature and whether it’s possible to change it, and what price we're prepared to pay for peace, this book is simultaneously very heavy and very funny, and written in a very unique style. While still human, the society presented often feels starkly alien.

A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan duology) by Arkady Martine

Mahit, ambassador of a small station nation, arrives at the heart of the Teixcalaanli Empire, ready to battle for the continued independence of her people. In her head she carries part of the personality of her predecessor, there to guide her. A look at imperialism and the conflicting feelings of hate, fear and even admiration one can have towards empire. Also features a sapphic romance!

Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb series) by Tamsyn Muir

I mean, you're on tumblr, you probably already know about this one. Trust me when I say it's exactly as good as people claim. There are indeed lesbian necromancers is space (quite a lot of them, actually), but also incredible worldbuilding that keeps growing with every new installment, interesting political commentary, morally complex characters with fucked up dynamics, and well-thought out plot that keeps you guessing until the last.

Railhead (Railhead trilogy) by Philip Reeve

Young Adult. Listen, Philip Reeve is so good at absolutely wild worldbuilding, I nearly included a third series of his on this list (hey go look up Larklight okay!). In a future where humanity travel between the stars using not spaceships but a portal-connected system of sentient trains, a young thief and street urchin is hired to steal something off of the Emperor's train.

Bonus AKA I haven't read these yet but they seem really cool

The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon

More AI gods!

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White

Magic in space!

The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang

Angels in space!

#next post will be sapphic recs! #I'm thinking maybe one rec post a week? we'll see #nella talks books #book recs

[youvegotspiritkid]

I spent about 15.5 days with @seananmcguire books last year!

My first introduction to her was Feed, as Mira Grant, and the Newsflesh series has been my favourite since.

I spent last year discovering several of her series I hadn't read before, such as Incryptid, October Daye, & Wayward Children, and I've enjoyed them all. Strong, diverse, fun characters. Stories that encourage imagination, & are thought provoking. What's not to like love?!

A big thank you to Seanan for keeping me entertained. I look forward to re-reading and re-listening to all things while I impatiently wait for all the new stories to come in 2024 ❤

#books #seanan mcguire #audible wrappee #newsflesh #wayward children #incryptid #october daye #mira grant #reading #audiobook

[readtilyoudie]

“We never domesticated the cat. We just convinced it to stop attacking us when we started feeding it regularly,” said Michael. “We stopped feeding the cats, they stopped keeping up their side of the bargain.”

All the Pretty Little Horses: A Newsflesh Novella by Mira Grant

#book quote #all the pretty little horses #mira grant #newsflesh trilogy #novella #horror #zombies #post apocalyptic #fantasy #quote #quotes #booklr #bookblr

[shamelesslymkp]

REC: Dinae - here beside the news - Newsflesh Series - Mira Grant [Archive of Our Own]

URL: https://ift.tt/g9h1flN Set prior to the events of Feed, (one of) Shaun's close calls in the ruined town of Yreka, California. (Words: 1,755) !!!fandom, !!fic, |site:ao3, +fandom:newsflesh.series.-.mira.grant, ::rating:teen.and.up.audiences, ::category:gen, ~ao3:pre-canon, ~ao3:canon.typical.injury, ~ao3:yuletide, ~ao3:yuletide.2022, ~author:dinae

#i eat fic for breakfast #fic recs #via:pinboard #schrödinger's content warnings #queue me up scotty #goddamnit ifttt

[crystal-library]

Series Binge: Newsflesh by Mira Grant

For someone that claims not to be a big fan of horror novels, I sure do read (and enjoy) a lot of them. Mira Grant (aka Seanan McGuire) is one of my favorite authors, and I started the Newsflesh series in 2020, and (since I own the entire series) have decided it's time for me to finish it!

Overall

Rating: 4 stars

Thoughts:

Overall, I really enjoyed the Newsflesh series. I was engaged through the entire series, and it was one of those series that I wanted to keep reading. I wanted more of the world and to know what happened next. The first book, Feed, was my favorite book in the initial trilogy, and I really enjoyed the short stories that added to the world-building. This series is a unique take on how society develops after surviving the zombie apocalypse, and I would love to see more stories like it. 

I do, however, think that the series would have been fine left as a standalone and some short stories. There are factors that I would have liked to have explored more, and aspects that seemed like a reach and far from the initial premise of the series. The ideas are great on their own, and I kind of wish they had been two separate series. 

SPOILERY thoughts on individual books below! 

Feed (Book 1)

Rating: 5 stars

I originally read Book 1 in the Newsflesh series in 2020, and decided that I wanted to reread it before continuing with the rest of the series. Feed is probably my favorite full novel in the series. I really enjoy the setup and worldbuilding of the series done here, and it has made me realize that I can enjoy a concept such as "zombies" when it is reasoned out in a logical way. 

I've seen a few people argue that this isn't a zombie book, because it doesn't follow the typical "zombie apocalypse" formula. But, at least in my eyes, it's not meant to be; this is a book about a society that has survived the apocalypse, and what life has become. I haven't seen this done often, and I think this creative take is part of why I enjoyed it so much.

Deadline (Book 2)

Rating: 4 stars

I’m pretty on the fence about the rest of this series. In all honesty, I enjoyed the books, but I’m not sure they were necessary. I almost wish that Feed was a standalone book (with the exception of some of the short stories). I almost feel like the diversion into government conspiracy and so on (getting into the last book) was just added in to extend the story. Not to say that it’s not engaging and enjoyable, I’m just not sure it was necessary.

I wish that the insect vector of the virus introduced at the end of the book was explored a little more. That was one of the most interesting parts of the story, and, along with the new information on people with reservoir conditions, and it felt like both of these concepts were brushed off pretty quickly. The worldbuilding is what drew me into the series the most, and I would have liked to see more of this and have it been more relevant to the characters, rather than them watching it all from a distance. 

Blackout (Book 3)

Rating: 4 stars

Much like Deadline, while I enjoyed Blackout, I'm not really sure it was necessary. It does wrap up the Newsflesh trilogy, and I did find it interesting. But I don’t think these books were entirely necessary. 

I’m aware that there is a connection made between Kellis-Amberlee (the zombie virus) and cloning, but I’m still not entirely clear on what that connection was. I feel like the cloning/mad scientist aspects came out of left field. I can’t help but feel like the concept of cloning was only introduced to bring George back into the picture, especially since it only happened in an attempt to control Shaun. 

I’m not sure why there was suddenly a romance between Shaun and George? I never picked up anything more than a sibling relationship between them, and then suddenly they were kissing. I kind of feel like it was only thrown in so that clone-George could prove that she was on their side. It’s established that they’re not biologically related, and I appreciate that. However, that was pretty much immediately negated by the fact that they still refer to each other as “my brother” and “my sister.” 

Feedback (Book 4)

Rating: 4 stars

Feedback is a companion book that follows events that occur at the same time as the first book, removed from the original group of characters. 

I enjoyed reading Feedback overall, but it's not my favorite book in the series. It starts out really strong, adding another layer to the series and giving readers perspectives outside of the Mason siblings. But in the second half of the book, it seems to take a sharp turn. I wish there was a little more of a horror aspect in this aspect of the book.  While there were definitely things that make your skin crawl, it doesn't seem like the same book. (For as dangerous and zombie-ridden as the Canadian wilds are made out to be, there aren't that many zombies...) 

I'm not 100% sold on my rating for this book yet. I might make some edits. 

Rise (Short Story collection)

Rating: 4 stars

Short story collections and anthologies are always hit-or-miss for me, and Rise is no exception. The pattern I noticed while reading is that I enjoyed the prequel and worldbuilding stories more than I did the sequel stories. 

The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell, San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats, and How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea were my favorites from this collection.  These all gave more depth to the series through worldbuilding and the clarification of events that were briefly touched on in the main series, as well as the more traditional horror vibes that we don't see. 

However, I stand by my opinion that the cloning/mad scientist aspects of the series are a little odd in relation to the rest of the series. I was not as impressed by the stories that focused on these aspects. I'm also still weirded out by the whole...romance. (I still think it’s unnecessary, and it would still bother me a little less if they didn't still refer to each other as siblings...). 

#book review #book series #scifiseries #science fiction #crystal library series binge #bookblr #bookworm #bookish #booknerd #reading community #readers of tumblr #book blog #book nerd

[after-the-end-times2]

#feed #mira grant #zombies #zombie fiction #deadline #blackout #newsflesh #steve irwin #shaun mason #georgia mason #after the end times #seanan mcguire #post apocalyptic #apocalyptic

[lpcoolgirl]

[thebestbookrecommendations]

Feed - Mira Grant (Newsflesh #1)

The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED. Now, twenty years after the Rising, bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives—the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will get out, even if it kills them.

Read if You Like:

Horror

Zombies

Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Dystopian FIction

Fantasy

Thriller

Sarcasm

Journalism

Recommended if You Enjoy:

Max Brooks (World War Z)

M. R. Carey (The Girl with All the Gifts)

Daryl Gregory (Raising Stony Mayhall)

The Walking Dead (T.V. Series, 2010)

Shaun of the Dead (Movie, 2004)

Mira Grant (Into the Drowning Deep)

4/5

Next in the series:

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