<p>A bastard hybrid of <i>War of the Worlds</i> and <i>Night of the Living Dead</i>, <i>Autumn </i>chronicles the struggle of a small group of survivors forced to contend with a world torn apart by a deadly disease. After 99% of the population of the planet is killed in less than 24 hours, for the very few who have managed to stay alive, things are about to get much worse. Animated by "phase two" of some unknown contagion, the dead begin to rise. At first slow, blind, dumb and lumbering, quickly the bodies regain their most basic senses and abilities... sight, hearing, locomotion... As well as the instinct toward aggression and violence. Held back only by the restraints of their rapidly decomposing flesh, the dead seem to have only one single goal - to lumber forth and destroy the sole remaining attraction in the silent, lifeless world: those who have survived the plague, who now find themselves outnumbered 1,000,000 to 1...</p><p>Without ever using the 'Z' word, <i>Autumn</i> offers a new perspective on the traditional zombie story. There's no flesh eating, no fast-moving corpses, no gore for gore's sake. Combining the atmosphere and tone of George Romero's classic living dead films with the attitude and awareness of 28 Days (and Weeks) later, this horrifying and suspenseful novel is filled with relentless cold, dark fear.</p>
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Excellent zombie book - with this so subtle English touch...
This book is basically a tale of survival that makes us follow a group of people, foreign to one another, in a remote English city. What starts off as an isolated viral attack spreads incredibly fast and reaches the scale of a global epidemics in way less than a day. People just die randomly under one mere minute and spares no one: elders, infants, women and men alike, everybody's subject to the potential threat. A group of people manages to survive -the explanation will probably be given in one of the sequels- and decides to make it to the relative safety of the countryside. This is the story of their survival that Moody has us follow. I share the opinions of many a reader here: the book is somewhat slow to start. However, towards the last quarter of the novel, the pace gets up all of a sudden. Probably the main merit of the book is the quality of its human characters' thorough description. None of them is a Mr or Mrs "I-know-it-all-inside-out". Rather, they are full of doubts, subject to the highs and lows that each and every one of us would go through in just the same situation. Their morale is fragile, as is their social bond. Everything, from characters' description to the succession of their decisions and acts, the layout of the scenery, the behaviors of the various people involved, everything is accurate and highly credible. Know what? I don't know if you noticed that too, by Moody's managed to write his entire book without mentioning the term "zombie" a single time!! He instead uses words like creatures, corpses, pathetic beings etc. I guess this shows his willingness to break away from the usual zombie clichés: everything in his description of the transformation of the corpses into walking deads suggests that he is very fondly attached to the human side of things. He never criticizes what's happening. Rather, he writes in the style of a journalist: factual, to the point. This makes for a very great reading. If you manage not to be deterred by the somewha...
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