Posts tagged permuted press
Domain of the Dead: Zombie Duality
Unlike most folks, I read Domain of the Dead by Iain McKinnon after I read Remains of the Dead, and I’m glad that I did. I felt god-like knowing what had happened to the ones that were left behind, while the three who flew off in the helicopter were left to wonder about the fate of their friends. You see, [...]
Meigs Releases The Michaluk Virus
I never heard of Jessica Meigs before The Becoming was released by Permuted Press…I just started hearing people talking about a zombie story that was written entirely on Blackberry. I can’t believe this is Meigs’ first novel! As for the story itself, a handful of survivors form a loose-knit group as a virus spreads out from Atlanta. First people go [...]
Forget The Postman, The Last Mailman Is The Real Badass!
The Last Mailman: Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor Zombies by Kevin J. Burke is not at all what I was expecting from the title. It is not about a man delivering mail between survivor outposts or anything like that. It’s about survivors trying to tie up loose ends, so they can move on with their new lives; sometimes they find [...]
Apocalyptic Asshole in The Undead Situation
I just finished reading The Undead Situation by Eloise J Knapp, and I’m starting to think that the latest trend in zombie novels is to make the protagonist a real asshole. I don’t mean someone unlikeable, I mean someone who keeps you hooked into the story because you want to watch them die a slow and agonizing death. Pretty much [...]
Remains of the Dead: ZOMBIE PLAGUE 1, MANKIND 0
Remains of the Dead by Iain McKinnon is one hell of a sequel to Domain of the Dead, but can easily function as a stand-alone. Technically, the two books are just different perspectives of the same timeline. In both, a helicopter full of soldiers is sent out from a military ship to bring back zombie specimens for the scientists to [...]
Ex-Patriots: Kick-Ass Sequel to Ex-Heroes!!
Several times in the past, I have expressed my opinion that Craig DiLouie and Patrick D’Orazioset the standard for 2011 zombie novels. While I have spent the year reading some fabulous apocalyptic stories about the undead, none of them achieved the caliber of Tooth and Nail and The Dark Trilogy…until now. Ex-Patriots is a brilliant novel by Peter Clines, the [...]
Roads Less Traveled: The Plan [REVIEW]
I have never heard of C. Dulaney before reading this story; I still don’t know squat about the author, but I am huge fan of Permuted Press, and I’ve enjoyed 95% of the books that they have released. When I was offered the chance to review this new novel, I didn’t realize that it was the first in a series. [...]
New King of the Zombies: Tony Faville [INTERVIEW]
Kings of the Dead (Revised and Expanded) by Tony Faville (Permuted Press, April 2011, 270 pages, $14.95) opens with Zombie Hunter Cole explaining how the zombie apocalypse began nearly a year prior, with the swine flu mutating into a zombie virus. This character actually acknowledges the existing zombie genre, and describes how that affected the survival preparations of his group. [...]
Zombie Superheroes: The New Threat in “Ex-Heroes” [REVIEW]
As the zombie genre spreads exponentially throughout the literature community, infusing other sub-genres with the new varieties of undead or living infected, so do the point-of-views in the storylines. In the past few years, POVs include stories told by soldiers, the zombies themselves, and even the Grim Reaper. Ex-Heroes, written by Peter Clines, further mutates the genre with a zombie [...]
