{"id":3379,"date":"2008-10-03T22:21:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T22:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/10\/03\/books-received-10308-part-two-2\/"},"modified":"2008-10-03T22:21:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T22:21:26","slug":"books-received-10308-part-two-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/10\/03\/books-received-10308-part-two-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Books received 10\/3\/08 Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nightshadebooks.com\/secure\/images\/products\/129_large.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Living-Dead-Stephen-King\/dp\/1597801437\/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1223071601&amp;amp;sr=11-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Living Dead<\/span> edited by John Joseph Adams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Promo copy:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When there\u2019s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>From White Zombie to Dawn of the Dead; from Resident Evil to World War Z, zombies have invaded popular culture, becoming the monsters that best express the fears and anxieties of the modern west. The ultimate consumers, zombies rise from the dead and feed upon the living, their teeming masses ever hungry, ever seeking to devour or convert, like mindless, faceless eating machines. Zombies have been depicted as mind-controlled minions, the shambling infected, the disintegrating dead, the ultimate lumpenproletariat, but in all cases, they reflect us, mere mortals afraid of death in a society on the verge of collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Gathering together the best zombie literature of the last three decades from many of today\u2019s most renowned authors of fantasy, speculative fiction, and horror, including Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, George R. R. Martin, Clive Barker, Poppy Z. Brite, Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Joe R. Lansdale, The Living Dead, covers the broad spectrum of zombie fiction. The zombies of The Living Dead range from Romero-style zombies to reanimated corpses to voodoo zombies and beyond.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dccomics.com\/media\/product\/9\/9\/9971_180x270.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DC-GOES-APE-Various\/dp\/1401219357\/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1223071758&amp;amp;sr=11-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">DC Goes Ape<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Promo copy:<\/p>\n<p>Written by Otto Binder, John Broome, Gardner Fox and others; Art by Carmine Infantino, Wayne Boring, George Papp, Ross Andru, C.C. Beck, Jim Starlin and others; Cover by Arthur Adams<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll go bananas for this new title collecting simian stories from SUPERBOY #76, SUPERMAN #138, THE FLASH (VOL. 1) #127, DETECTIVE COMICS #339 and 482, HAWKMAN #16, WONDER WOMAN #170, STRANGE ADVENTURES #201, SHAZAM #9, SUPER FRIENDS #30 and THE FLASH (VOL. 2) #151! <\/p>\n<p>I wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblog_entry.php?e=1161\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">lengthy blog entry<\/a> about this back in May when this book was announced.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51KhpDIDSYL._SL500_AA240_.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Caine-Black-Knife-Matthew-Stover\/dp\/0345455878\/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1223072256&amp;amp;sr=11-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Caine Black Knife<\/span> by Matthew Stover<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Promo copy:<\/p>\n<p>In Heroes Die and Blade of Tyshalle, Matthew Stover created a new kind of fantasy novel, and a new kind of hero to go with it: Caine, a street thug turned superstar, battling in a future where reality shows take place in another dimension, on a world where magic exists and gods are up close and personal. In that beautiful, savage land, Caine is an assassin without peer, a living legend born from one of the highest-rated reality shows ever made. That season, Caine almost single-handedly defeated\u2013and all but exterminated\u2013the fiercest of all tribes: the Black Knives. But the shocking truth of what really took place during that blood-drenched adventure has never been revealed &hellip; until now.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty years later, Caine returns to the scene of his greatest triumph\u2013some would say greatest crime\u2013at the request of his adopted brother Orbek, the last of the true Black Knives. But where Caine goes, danger follows, and he soon finds himself back in familiar territory: fighting for his life against impossible odds, with the fate of two worlds hanging in the balance.<\/p>\n<p>Just the way Caine likes it. <\/p>\n<p>See Part One <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblog_entry.php?e=1467\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tumblr-crosspostr-linkback\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/10\/03\/books-received-10308-part-two\/\" title=\"Go to the original post.\" rel=\"bookmark\" target=\"_blank\">Books received 10\/3\/08 Part Two<\/a> was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\" target=\"_blank\">The Geek Curmudgeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound. 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