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Newsflesh · Book 4

Countdown

by Mira Grant
Published
1 August 2011
Pages
368
ISBN-13
9780316204484
Type
novella
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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.

Key facts about Countdown

Countdown is a novella by Mira Grant. Readers have had it since 1 August 2011. It runs to 368 pages.

Our list holds 2 editions of Countdown. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780316204484 to find the main one.

Countdown is book 4 of 8 in the Newsflesh series. The series has 8 published books. However, the series starts with Feed (2010). San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 11 July 2012.

Additionally, Mira Grant writes Parasitology as a separate series. Those series sit on our horror shelf.

About Mira Grant

Mira Grant is the pen name used by American author Seanan McGuire for her horror and science fiction work, kept distinct from the urban fantasy she publishes under her own name. Writing as Grant, McGuire created the Newsflesh trilogy, beginning with Feed, a Hugo Award-nominated series set decades after a zombie pandemic has become a managed, permanent feature of society, following bloggers reporting on politics in this new reality. See every Mira Grant book in order.

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…

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