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Countdown: A Newsflesh Novella
Written by Mira Grant
Narrated by Brian Bascle
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
The year is 2014, the year everything changed. We cured cancer. We cured the common cold. We died.
This is the story of how we rose.
When will you rise?
Countdown is a novella set in the world of Feed.
Word count: ~19,500
Newsflesh Short Fiction Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box Countdown San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus
For more from Mira Grant, check out:
Newsflesh Feed Deadline Blackout
Parasitology Parasite Symbiont Chimera
This is the story of how we rose.
When will you rise?
Countdown is a novella set in the world of Feed.
Word count: ~19,500
Newsflesh Short Fiction Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box Countdown San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus
For more from Mira Grant, check out:
Newsflesh Feed Deadline Blackout
Parasitology Parasite Symbiont Chimera
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Mira Grant
Mira Grant is the author of the New York Times best-selling Newsflesh trilogy, along with multiple other works of biomedical science fiction. She has been nominated for the Hugo Award, and her book, Feed, was chosen as one of NPR's 100 Killer Thrillers.
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Reviews for Countdown
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Countdown is a short prequel to the Newsflesh series. I have previously reviewed the first two books in the series: Feed and Deadline. I read the Kindle version of Countdown so it didn't have page numbers but I think it probably has only about 65 pages. It's a detailed account of the days in 2014 leading up to The Rising.Mira Grant is an excellent world builder. Adding more details to the story of how the Kellis-Amberlee virus was created and spread only made the possibility that something like that could really happen seem even more believable to me. There wasn't any brand new information in this book but it was a nice dose of the Newsflesh world to help tide me over until the final book, Blackout, is released this summer. I highly recommend Countdown for fans of the Newsflesh series.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This novella tells the story of how the Kellis-Amberlee virus was created, spread, and nearly destroyed us. It's not long but a great length for giving us just enough of the people involved in the disaster, with a little extra for those of us who have read 'Feed' and know what happens next. Very compelling stuff with enough science to be fascinating and not enough to bog it down.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5A treatise on the importance of animal testing in which scientific miracles and eco-terrorists bring about the end of the world. Maybe the author is trying to say that all good intentions are folly? I couldn't make it to the end.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I loved getting the story before the series!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A bit of a prequel to the first book in the Newsflesh series, Feed. Probably best read after you're into the series to provide a bit of backstory--for that, it's really interesting. Not sure it would function as well as an introduction to the books. I enjoyed it, though. Once you're immersed in this world it is hard to stop thinking about it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Rating: Worth Reading, with ReservationsI've finally gotten around to the Hugo-nominated novellas! I've actually had Mira Grant's Countdown on my Kindle since its release date, but I just kept forgetting about it. That happens a lot with my Kindle downloads, actually. I forget to record them in my spreadsheet (I know, I'm a nerd) or LibraryThing, and those are the primary two ways I track my purchases, so when I forget to record a Kindle download, it's as if the book doesn't exist. I certainly don't see it in the TBR! Thankfully, the Hugos have pushed this novella to the forefront, and since I finished reading Blackout earlier this month, I was glad to revisit Grant's Newsflesh world.There's one thing I want to get out of the way. Originally, I figured this novella might be a good place for readers to start if they hadn't yet read Feed but were wanting to sample Grant's world and writing. Now that I've read it, I want to say I'm quite wrong about this. There's several reasons why: for starters, there are some scenes a reader really won't give a crap about without the background provided in the Newsflesh novels. Characters, like the Masons, will appear, and a uninitiated reader might wonder what's the big deal with the kid and the dog, and despite the resolution of that being something of the climax, there's still a sense of, "That's it?" and I've read the whole trilogy. I can't imagine an uninitiated reader will really care or feel the emotional impact of that, but as I'm not an uninitiated reader, I could be wrong.The full review may be found in my blog, which is linked below. The full review really isn't spoiler unless you haven't read Feed, and even then, unless you're just completely unaware of the whole point of the Newsflesh trilogy, you won't be spoiled. As always, comments and discussion are most welcome.REVIEW: Mira Grant's COUNTDOWNHappy Reading!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quick, searing origin story for the Newsflesh series, which I'm loving. Kinda broke my heart there a couple of time.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Good return to the world of feed with an origins story.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Nothing we didn’t really know from the trilogy, with bonus “people concerned with health care for all are idiot terrorists,” even though it’s not clear whether their acts just sped up the inevitable. Hardcore fans of the trilogy may enjoy, as witness its Hugo nomination.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I've had the ebook version of Feed for a while now but haven't gotten around to reading it, so when Countdown was released, I thought I'd but that to get a feel for the series. I've got to admit, Countdown creeped me out a little, only because it was written in such a way to make it feel like the virus outbreak is something that could completely happen. Mira Grant has a knack for getting at the heart of the germ paranoia. I'm looking forward to reading Feed now.