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Cryonic: A Zombie Novel Paperback – June 18, 2013

by Travis Bradberry (Author)

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"Haunting..." --San Francisco Chronicle "Riveting..." --Kirkus "Powerful..." --Vanity Fair

"Sometimes you're better off dead. . . ."

When Royce Bruyere chose to be cryogenically frozen upon death, he figured coming back to life would be exciting. Neat. Bonus time. The world he awakes to is nothing of the sort.

A Chinese invasion has crippled the United States, dividing the country in a decade-long stalemate along the Mississippi. Royce's successful reanimation is unprecedented, making him the Chinese regime's most prized possession--but not for long. Eager to control life and death, the Chinese reanimate other "cryonics," until something goes horribly wrong.

Royce travels through a future wrought with violence and despair, only to discover the cure for the disease lies within him. It's a race against time as he flees the Chinese and the bloodthirsty victims of a terrifying epidemic in the hope of saving the country from apocalypse and creating a life worth living.

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"I didn't have the slightest inkling I was going to die that day. Though some will argue that I didn't really experience death. The blood stopped coursing through my veins--this much is certain--just as it will some day for you, but there were no pearly gates, no departed loved ones guiding me into the light. While I was away, I experienced nothingness. Perhaps this was intentional, as the great cosmic scorekeeper knew I wasn't finished walking the earth."
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300 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Bruyere
Publication date

June 18, 2013
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5.75 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
ISBN-10

0974320668
ISBN-13

978-0974320663
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"Sometimes you're better off dead. . . ."

When Royce Bruyere chose to be cryogenically frozen upon death, he figured coming back to life would be exciting. Neat. Bonus time. The world he awakes to is nothing of the sort.

A Chinese invasion has crippled the United States, dividing the country in a decade-long stalemate along the Mississippi. Royce's successful reanimation is unprecedented, making him the Chinese regime's most prized possession?but not for long. Eager to control life and death, the Chinese reanimate other "cryonics," until something goes horribly wrong.

Royce travels through a future wrought with violence and despair, only to discover the cure for the disease lies within him. It's a race against time as he flees the Chinese and the bloodthirsty victims of a terrifying epidemic in the hope of saving the country from apocalypse and creating a life worth living.

From the book:

"I didn't have the slightest inkling I was going to die that day. Though some will argue that I didn't really experience death. The blood stopped coursing through my veins--this much is certain--just as it will some day for you, but there were no pearly gates, no departed loved ones guiding me into the light. While I was away, I experienced nothingness. Perhaps this was intentional, as the great cosmic scorekeeper knew I wasn't finished walking the earth."
-page 1

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bruyere (June 18, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 300 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0974320668
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0974320663
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches

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Dr. Bradberry's new book, EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE HABITS, offers a groundbreaking new way to change your habits and change your life. His bestselling books have sold millions of copies and are available in more than 150 countries.

Dr. Bradberry is a LinkedIn Top Voice, with 2.5 million followers on the platform. He has written for or been covered by Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post , and The Harvard Business Review.

He is a world-renowned expert in emotional intelligence who speaks regularly in corporate and public settings. Recent engagements include Intel, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Wells Fargo, Salesforce.com, The Global Leadership Summit, The Fortune Growth Summit, and The Conference Board: Learning from Legends.

Dr. Bradberry holds a Dual Ph.D. in Clinical and Industrial-Organizational psychology. He received his bachelor of science in Clinical Psychology from the University of California - San Diego.

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Meghan

Utterly Mind-blowing

Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2013

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I have read and devoured every zombie book or film that has come my way, so I have begun considering myself as a pretty jaded fan of the zombie genre--I'm one of those guys who take pride in my ability to "predict" where a zombie story is headed to, even early in the tale.

But `Cryonic' stopped me dead on my tracks--figuratively, of course.

Travis Bradberry has written something that I'm betting my left arm will soon be made into a film or at least a TV show. `Cryonic' is about a "client" of the nebulous cryonics or cryogenics industry--the method of freezing the dead in the hopes of a future technology being able to bring them back to life. Freezing the dead is also called "suspension" and main character Royce Bruyere happens to have signed a suspension agreement with a cryonics company to freeze him in the event of his death. On the downside: Royce dies not long after the agreement. On the upside: he is successfully reanimated not centuries, but merely decades in the future. On the downside again: the world he wakes up to basically gives him the screaming mimies.

Royce wakes up years in the future to an America invaded by the Chinese. Of course, the very success of his reanimation isn't something that happens everyday--it is short of miraculous. Consequently, the Chinese quickly latch upon the fact of Royce's reanimation, bandying it as its own technological achievement, while attempting to repeat the success with the others. And there's the rub--reanimation turns out to be a grossly inexact science, and when it messes up, it messes up horribly. Hence, murderous, walking, flesh-hungry walkers.

The great thing about `Cryonic' is the fact that Bradberry has woven a riveting tale that has you clutching the edge of your seat--he is obviously a seasoned writer who knows where and how to push the right buttons, armed with his own grace and flourish on the written page, he as much as goads you and pushes you to run for your life. The book is not just another novel about zombies--Bradberry has elevated the genre into something provocative for its plausibility (a Chinese-dominated future, for instance), especially by taking a still-nascent technology (cryogenics) by its horns and fleshing out (pardon the zombie pun) its very real implications with incredible creativity.

`Cryonic' is a must-read. To zombie fans: drop anything you're doing tonight, cancel that date, and order this book. You simply can't afford to miss this.

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zee9

very good story that pulls the reader to the very end

Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2013

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Royce was just finishing up a day of surfing with his son Colt when their small personal plane crashed during their return trip home. When Royce next wakes up, he first believes he is in a hospital after having survived the crash. But he immediately realizes something is off. The hospital room more resembles a science lab, his nurse behaves very skittish, and all his Asian-born doctors seem very cold and distant. Royce discovers that he has been brought back from having been cryogenically frozen. It is the middle of the 21st century, the US has suffered terrible natural disasters, and China has invaded the Eastern half of the country. Royce is deep in Chinese occupied territory and desperately wants to know his family's fate after the trying times of the past 40 years. But before he can begin to plot his escape, the experiments conducted by his Chinese captors go horribly awry and a zombie-like epidemic is unleashed. Royce must race westward to American controlled soil while avoiding Chinese militants before the plague spreads too far.

I found the premise of this story to be very intriguing. Not only was this a zombie apocalypse book, but it also had a lot of political and social dynamics involved. I thought that the characters and their relationships with one another were well described and believable. The reader is compelled to keep reading, driven by the need to know if Royce will make it to safety in time, will he get his knowledge of the cure to those who can harness it, and will he ever find out what happened to the family he left behind all those years ago?

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DenverBrian

Fairly average romp, but pretty Sinophobic

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2013

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This book caught my interest because of the cryonics angle, but it quickly became apparent that the author's knowledge of cryonics ended at "wasn't Ted Williams frozen?"

The book starts with a bonding episode between the main character and his son, resulting in a fatal plane crash, but our hero has a cryonics agreement with a company that suspends him until such time as reanimation can occur.

Such reanimation happens quickly - only a few decades later, and completely across the country, and under Chinese rule. I didn't mind the Chinese occupation angle, but virtually every stereotype of the Chinese makes an appearance in this book, from giant bags of rice stored in warehouses to "re-education" camps where the gallant Americans are given lobotomies so they'll conform to the "Chinese way."

When Bradberry sticks to moving the story along, he does a bit better, and he's not afraid to introduce some ghoulish zombie action - kudos to him for focusing on the zombies themselves instead of their odor, which recent indie writers are milking to death. Unfortunately, the dialogue is wooden and trauma usually resolves in minutes (including most physical trauma - the evil Chinese apparently are wonders of modern medicine when they're not forcing everyone to wear the exact same outfit and nuking Denver).

Ultimately it's a story of going home in many ways, but it's written too thinly to stick. Bradberry has a hard time writing his future universe - some tech is whiz-bang advanced, and some is exactly as it was in 2010, and there's no relationship as to what he picked and chose. All of that, and an ending that feels like there is at least one chapter missing, makes for a rather average stab at the genre.

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Anari

A Brilliantly Spun Futuristic Tale

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 6, 2013

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This novel had me gripped from the word go. Cryonic is a brilliantly spun, futuristic tale which begins with the death and subsequent re-animation of Royce Bruyere by the means of cryogenics. When he is brought to life, several decades later, he arises to find that the world is not a friendly place. China is the ruling super power and half of the U.S. has been enslaved.

The Chinese are experimenting with dead bodies, in the hopes to revive their dead soldiers and continue with their plan for world domination - but there is a flaw in their design. Those that are being brought back to life are contracting a virus with sinister implications.

Travis Bradberry will appeal to lovers of the genres Sci-Fi and Horror, and he writes with a superbly realistic style. The characters are well defined and the plot writhes like a snake - plenty of twists and turns to get excited about.

Loved it. 5 Stars all the way.

Steve F

Holiday Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2013

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I've read a few zombie books (including World War Z) and have to admit to generally being underwhelmed. Normal progression: Unknown virus => zombies => initially devastating impact => some personalised stories as a key character is undoubtedly infected and may / may not turn => find cure and sort it out OR small enclave of humanity struggles to survive.

It more or less does that, nothing spectacular or innovative with average character development. World War Z has a more interesting perspective and for me is a better book. That said I read this in a day on holiday (few books hit my "give up" threshold!)

Kindle Customer

Enjoyable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 12, 2013

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Good,quick read, a bit different which was interesting. Would like-bo know what happens next, shall buy next book! Worth looking at.