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Resident Evil Keith R. A. DeCandido · 2004 · 282p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The Complete Saga of the 18th Race Series in One Omnibus EditionWe are not alone!In exploring and colonizing the galaxy, humanity discovers evidence of eighteen sentient species. Seventeen of them had not developed interstellar travel. Those were destroyed by the species that did reach the stars. That space-faring eighteenth annihilated the human colony on the Semi-Autonomous World Troy.A Marine… Shares: Virus diseases, Zombies

Loose among the lambs Jay Brandon · 1993 · ★ 3.7 · 389p · ≈ 12h · Moderate District Attorney Mark Blackwell is pitted against San Antonio elite in the midst of a case involving the molestation of a ten-year-old boy. Shares: San antonio, Texas

Feed Seanan McGuire · 2010 · ★ 4.5 · 595p · ≈ 19h · Moderate From New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire, a haunting urban fantasy short story in the Carniepunk anthology—for fans of all things circus, supernatural, and mysterious…It’s been seventeen years since the last time Ada’s carnival passed through her father’s hometown in Alabama—and no one is expecting the reception she gets. Shares: Virus diseases, Zombies

Xombies Walter Greatshell · 2004 · ★ 3.5 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Henry Cadmus grew up on Catalina Island, a scenic vacationland off the Southern California coast. But Henry's experiences were far from idyllic. Today, even though Henry has seen firsthand the horrors of war, the ghastly images that haunt his dreams is one he associates with his childhood… and the island: a snarling pig-man holding a cleaver; a jackal-headed woman on a high balcony, dripping… Shares: Virus diseases, Zombies

Feedback Seanan McGuire · 2016 · ★ 4.5 · 484p · ≈ 16h · Moderate "FEEDBACK is a full-length Newsflesh novel which overlaps the events of Feed and covers the Presidential campaign from the perspective of reporters covering the Democrats side of the story. There are two sides to every story ... The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we unleashed something horrifying and unstoppable. The infection spread leaving those… Shares: Virus diseases, Zombies

Zone One Colson Whitehead · 2011 · ★ 3.5 · 265p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Mark Spitz and his squad of three "sweepers" move through Zone One of lower Manhattan, a walled-off enclave scheduled for resettlement in the aftermath of a zombie plague. The great masses of the undead have been violently dispatched by a Marine detachment. It falls to Spitz and his fellows to take care of the handful that remain, as well as a second-tier of the infected known as "stragglers":… Shares: Virus diseases, Zombies

Dead city Joe McKinney · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In the wake of five cataclysmic hurricanes, a deadly virus breaks out in Texas, returning the dead to life with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Shares: Texas, Zombies

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