![]() The Marines have mostly cleared a swath of Manhattan south of Canal Street of skels, and teams of “sweepers” are picking off any stragglers they might have missed to re-populate the city. There’s been a plague! Most of humanity has been turned into zombies, or “skels.” Skels are divided into two types – vicious flesh-eating predators or catatonic “stragglers” lingering at their former lives.ĭuring the events of the book, the plague has mostly receded, and a fragile government is slowly reforming in Buffalo, New York. On its surface, Zone One is your typical post-apocalyptic zombie novel. I wanted to like it, but the narrative was muddled and the narrator was highly unlikable from the start. ![]() This book tries hard to bridge being “literary” and a zombie book - not very well. Now they were mostly mouths and fingers, fingers for extracting entrails from soft cavities, and mouths to rend and devour in pieces the distinct human faces they captured, that these faces might become less distinct, de-individuated flaps of masticated flesh, rendered anonymous like them, the dead.” In Brief: ![]() No matter the hue of their skin, dark or light, no matter the names of their gods or the absences they countenanced, they had all strived, struggled, and loved in their small human fashion. ![]() “They had been young and old, natives and newcomers. ![]()
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