We know what’s going to happen, but watching it unfold and knowing there’s no chance that it won’t end the way that it does is still somehow crazily fascinating and terrible. Countdown is scary and dramatic and gave me the biggest case of dread. We meet some familiar characters, and also see the people who are basically the founding fathers of the Kellis-Amberlee virus – the creators of the Kellis cure, meant to cure the common cold, and Marburg Amberlee, an engineered virus that can defeat even the most dire of terminal cancer cases. Here, in Countdown, we see first-hand what actually happened that awful summer, from the optimism of a potential cancer cure to an irreversible act of ecoterrorism, all leading to the mutation and spread of a pandemic that changed the world forever.
In the Newsflesh novels, the events of 2014 are almost 30 years in the past.
There was nothing that anyone could have done.Ī chilling timeline of the end of the world, showing the last of the pre-Rising days and how the disaster came on step by step. It could have been prevented a thousand times over. It began without warning it began with all the warning in the world. These stories are awful in their inevitability – we know what’s coming, and we know that nothing will stop it. Newsflesh is set decades after the onset of the initial Kellis-Amberlee outbreak, and while we learn through the characters’ conversations and memories what happened at that time, it’s something quite different to read the author’s stories set during the Rising. The first few stories in the Rise collection are set at the very beginning of the Rising – and this is something we never see in the main books of the Newsflesh trilogy. So what’s inside Rise? And should you read it? Read on for mini-reviews of each story… and as for whether you should read it, my answer is an unqualified YES… but only after you read the complete trilogy, or at least, enough to appreciate the context of these stories. (See my wrap-up post about Newsflesh here. Rise is a collection of eight novellas and short stories that are set within the world of the Newsflesh trilogy.
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