Just before the third installment, Blackout (May 22, 2012), was published, McGuire released an alternate ending to Feed.įeed is set several decades after the zombie apocalypse, referred to as the Rising. Deadline is the second book in the Newsflesh series. Feed came second in the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Novel category. The novel has been praised for its detailed worldbuilding, including the characters' awareness of previous zombie fiction-an element McGuire had found lacking in most horror works. McGuire's interests in horror movies and virology inspired her to write the book, but she struggled with the plot until a friend suggested using an election as a framing device.

A series of deadly incidents leads Georgia and her brother Shaun to discover efforts to undermine the campaign, linked to a larger conspiracy involving the undead.

Set during the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse and written from the perspective of blog journalist Georgia Mason, Feed follows Georgia and her news team as they follow the presidential campaign of Republican senator Peter Ryman. It is currently available in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and Spain.Feed is the first book in the Newsflesh series of science fiction/ horror novels written by Seanan McGuire under the pen name Mira Grant and published by Orbit Books in 2010. It was named #76 on NPR’s Top 100 Killer Thrillers List, and was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2010. Accompanied by the rest of their blogging team, Senator Ryman’s staff, and a whole lot of caffeine, they might succeed…or they might finally answer the big question of their post-Rising world: When will you rise?įeed is a distopian political zombie thriller set in against the backdrop of a national political campaign. In a world filled with the constant threat of both the living and the living dead, it will be all that Shaun and Georgia can do to keep themselves in one piece. Now, in Senator Peter Ryman’s run for the Presidency of the United States, they’ve finally found it.Īll they have to do is survive until the election. Adopted by the Masons and raised in the strange world of the post-Rising media, they’ve spent their lives chasing the next big story, the one that will allow them to break into the big leagues once and for all. Shaun and Georgia are orphans of the Rising, the cataclysmic event which left the world reeling in the aftermath of the zombie uprising.

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