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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

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File Size: 777 KB
Print Length: 82 pages
Publisher: Orbit (August 1, 2011)
Publication Date: August 1, 2011
Sold by: Hachette Book Group
Language: English
ASIN: B0053HDJSK
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The best intro/prequel ever

ByBrianon October 13, 2011

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An "intro" of sorts to the entire Newsflesh series, Countdown is a great start. This can be read in any order with the other novels and novellas. Giving a deeper and darker look at how this transformation from humanity started.

I'm a bio-thriller nerd. I absolutely love when an author can get me into the BSL-4 labs in my head or make me think about viruses and diseases in a new an interesting light. The virus that takes hold throughout the Newsflesh series was pretty well explained in the three novels, but Grant goes into much more detail in Countdown.

Seriously, I already enjoyed the first two books of the Newsflesh series, but I never thought I'd want something to be longer in my whole life. This is the intro that all of us wish was written into Feed, but was so much better. It gives all of the details that you wanted and covers a few bases that had you scratching your head after Feed.

If Mira wrote a longer version of this novella, I would buy it again in a heartbeat.

Yes, it's a novella, which means that it's short. Do yourself a favor and check this out. If you haven't picked up Feed and were wondering what all the fuss was about, this could help change your mind. Or if you did read Feed and wanted to know more like I did -- Countdown will help answer some of your unanswered questions about the Newsflesh world.

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Great prequel to the Newsflesh trilogy

ByCheryl StoutTOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICEon September 11, 2011

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Mira Grant aka Seanan McGuire has become one of my favorite authors - and the zombie genre has NEVER been at the top of my reading list. But Grant is such a stunning writer that the first two books in her Newsflesh trilogy - Feed and Deadline - have become two of my favorite books EVER any genre. And I can hardly wait until "Blackout," the final book in the trilogy is out in May 2012.

"Countdown" was just what I thought it was going to be - a prequel to the first two books. It goes into much more detail on the WHYS and HOWS of the pandemic that started the zombie apocalypse. It takes place in the year 2014, so no, Georgia and/or Shaun Mason, the protagonists of the trilogy do not play a role in it (the trilogy starts in the year 2039). The writing was top notch. Grant really has a gift for making the science understandable.

While you could read this novella first, it is probably a good idea to read it after "Feed" and "Deadline" so you get the full impact.

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interesting idea, needed work

ByKLRon November 10, 2013

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This was an ok novella... A bit of a let down after reading the Newsflesh Trilogy.

What worked:
-- I liked seeing the doctors who created the virus and the jerk who set it free as far as understanding how it all began.
-- And despite the peeks at the Mason family before Shaun and Georgia became a part of it, the POV of Marigold was most effective at explaining how innocent lives were being affected.
-- I liked at the end of each "chapter" they showed the news reports.

What didn't work:
-- The writing was frantic and vague; I know it was supposed to be a short story, but if a prequel is going to be invented it should add to the story somehow; it needed a little development.
-- I wish the cause and effect had been built upon a little more; the Mason's are lovely before the infection and despite the devastating loss of their son I don't really see how they transformed into rating-hungry villains.

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Only Makes Me Want More!

ByJessica CRon June 27, 2012

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So Mira Grant is pretty much the boss of zombie fiction right now, and rightfully so. She doesn't just write about nasty zombie attacks, she writes about nasty zombie attacks WITH a super-creative and intensely indepth backstory and multidimensional characters. This little e-book novella answered a lot of my questions about the series. The Alexander Kellis storyline broke my heart! I can't wait to read "Blackout", and this satisfied my craving for more Grant zombies.

I wish this was expanded into an entire prequel novel- I'm just greedy, I want more! I know the focus is on the aftermath and the rising, but the story about how it all began is so interesting as well, and Grant has enough writing talent to expand her universe even more.

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Countdown to the end of modern civilization

ByS. Agusto-Coxon November 29, 2014

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A prequel to the Newsflesh trilogy that counts down to the impending rise of zombies across America and beyond. Grant chronicles the cure for the common cold and the cure for cancer by geneticists and virologists. These countdowns become more rapid as the novella progresses, until the inevitable occurs. It is harrowing to think how the most optimistic doctors and scientists' experiments could turn so ugly so quickly. Wonderful addition to the trilogy.

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ByRachel McElhanyVINE VOICEon January 24, 2012

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Countdown 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.

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As good as I hoped

ByBridgetteon January 8, 2013

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This was a great read. Any fan of the feed trilogy will love this and for those who haven't, if you enjoy excellent writing and zombies you can't go wrong with this. As others have said, I would recommend reading the trilogy first, if only to better appreciate all the information and the story itself. I have read the others and this was so awesome. I read a ton of books and have found myself disappointed a lot lately with the quality of books out there. Not the series, they were and are the best books I've read in a long time and this is no exception. I could read about this world everyday, it's so realistic.

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This whole series was an amazingly fresh take on the zombie genre. I loved the deeper political and social messages in it!Read more

Published 12 months ago by A. Rice

Seanan's novellas flesh out the series nicely. This one kept me up at night.Read more

Published 1 year ago by Amazon Customer

You already know the story

Where it all started. A prequel that maps where the world ended. The science is great but the book is the run of the mill zombie outbreak book. You do not need to read this.Read more

Published 1 year ago by Brett Grossmann

Good, too short

I loved World War Z's (the book, obviously) telling of so many stories. Countdown tells a few stories.Read more

Published 1 year ago by DeryckEleven

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Published 1 year ago by Dale Peterson

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The Good: This is a must read for any Newsflesh fan, especially if your a fan of background and origin stories. We learn, in detail, how the zombies came about.Read more

Published 1 year ago by Jennifer Sicurella

Great read! My husband and I loved the series. A great twist on the zombie genre.Read more

Published on June 10, 2015 by Jessi B

Mira Grant (Seaman McGuire) gives us the incite into why the Rising happened and does a fantastic job with it in this first newsflesh novella.Read more

Published on May 20, 2015 by Michael

If you read the Feed trilogy and found yourself wanting ...

If you read the Feed trilogy and found yourself wanting more, this is a decent novella to give you more. It takes place before Feed and shows you how everything came about.Read more

Published on May 20, 2015 by Jess

how the best of intentions paved the road to Hell on Earth

Myra Grant gives us the story of how her Newsflesh world came to be, how the best of intentions paved the road to Hell on Earth.Read more

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