Newsflesh · Book 4
Countdown
- Published
- 1 August 2011
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9780316204484
- Type
- novella
About this book
Countdown is a prequel novella covering the origin of the Kellis-Amberlee virus, published in August 2011 between Deadline and Blackout. A Hugo Award finalist for Best Novella, it fills in the scientific backstory behind Newsflesh's zombie outbreak and is also collected in Rise: The Complete Newsflesh Collection.
Its place in Newsflesh
Countdown is book 4 in the Newsflesh series. It follows Deadline. It is followed by Blackout. See the full Newsflesh reading order.
Twenty-some years after two well-meaning cures -- one for cancer, one for the common cold -- combined to accidentally create a virus that reanimates the dead, humanity has adapted. Blogging, not broadcast news, is the trusted press, since bloggers proved they'd report the truth about the outbreak when traditional media wouldn't. Feed opens Newsflesh with bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason, adoptive siblings running a news team, landing the assignment of a lifetime covering a presidential campaign in a world where…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316204484
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781405518703