The Girl With All the Gifts

Vampires tend to go on at length about their post-life agonies—the romantic intrigues, the moral conflict of blood drinking, the tragic isolation of immortality… Bloodsuckers are chatty folk, once you get past the brooding. Zombie, not so much—we rarely get their perspective on life and undeath; they are simple, mindless creatures. The thinking zombie is an interesting anomaly, often […]

Avid readers are familiar with the joys and sorrows of film and tv adaptations: for every awesome movie that brings your favorite characters to life, there’s another one that tries to destroy them. Given that the next few years promise to be absolutely saturated with adaptations, the smart book nerd will buckle up now, because […]

Mike Carey earned his stripes as a writer in the comics/graphic novel realm, penning the entire run of the Eisner Award-nominated series Lucifer, providing major arcs for the likes of John Constantine: Hellblazer and X-Men, and even creating a trippy adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere. His stellar comic work may have never notched the mainstream cred it certainly deserved […]

The Boy on the Bridge is a companion novel to M.R. Carey’s 2014 bestseller The Girl with All the Gifts. Like that instantly iconic book, the followup is set in a world under siege by a fungal plague that has turned humans into cannibalistic monsters. It’s also another brilliant character study as much as a tense, satisfying post-apocalyptic […]