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Countdown: A Newsflesh Novella | Mira Grant
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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 FictionApocalypse Scenario #683: The BoxCountdownSan Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California BrowncoatsHow Green This Land, How Blue This SeaThe Day the Dead Came to Show and TellPlease Do Not Taunt the Octopus For more from Mira Grant, check out: Newsflesh FeedDeadlineBlackout ParasitologyParasiteSymbiont Chimera
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intothehallofbooks
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A short prequel story, the beginning of the Newsflesh series, which sets up the Kellis-Amberlee virus: a man-made cure for cancer merges with a man-made cure for the common cold and the world falls fast. I felt so much dread, especially since I‘m [now] pretty familiar with things like reliable news sources, modes of virus transmission, and talk of vaccines.

By the end of the story, I am firmly in a world that is in bad, bad shape.

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hissingpotatoes
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5/5⭐ Mira Grant is a master of the short story. I loved the insights into several different perspectives over the timeline of Countdown. It was absolutely terrifying reading about the onset of a global pandemic during a global pandemic. #bookspinbingo @thearomaofbooks

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 2y
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WeeWeegieBookworm
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When you are rereading a story about killer viruses that you first read in 2012 and one word stands out 🤦🏻‍♀️
#covid19 #coronavirus #KellisAmberlee

dylanisreading I love her novels. They‘re so scientific. 4y
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Zephsomething
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I finally finished the Newsflesh trilogy so now it‘s time to read all the extra content!! (Sorry for the photo it‘s an ebook only Novella which limits my photography options >_

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UglyOldBat
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Countdown to #readathon

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LitsyHappenings
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Repost from @dariazeoli :
I‘ll be 39 next month. My Litfluence is about the same as my age (38.967 🤣) & I hit 700 followers today, so I‘m giving away books!

I‘ve not read the 2 mysteries, but read & enjoyed the other 2, which were sent to me by the publisher for review. Want the lot? Post with #Countdownto39Giveaway and tell me 1 book you want to read by your next birthday!

I‘ll choose a winner when I wake up on New Year‘s Day. Sorry, US only.

dariazeoli Thanks for sharing! 6y
LitsyHappenings @dariazeoli Anything for you, dear Litten! 6y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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- Science Fiction, Fantasy, Just Plain Weird
- Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe, China Miéville
- Ender's Game, The Last Unicorn, The Neverending Story
- @Jaberwocky @Seshat
- Edward McKay's Used Books and More in Winston-Salem, NC, Beach Book Mart in Atlantic Beach, NC
- outofprintclothing.com litographs.com
- a copy of The Hobbit with illustrations from the Rankin/Bass animated film
- wherever I can
- Autumn

#litsy321favorites

Jess7 Thanks for participating 🤗 I love the movie #TheNeverEndingStory but I haven't read the book. My husband and I kid that our white miniature schnauzer (Parker) looks like Falcore. 😂 7y
TheKidUpstairs Just Plain Weird is the best genre I've seen today 👍😅😅 7y
silentrequiem Just Plain Weird is one of my favorite genres! 7y
Jabberwocky That's funny, you're one of my faves too!! 7y
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MrBook
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Still have a ways to go. 1 book done, 1/3 through the 2nd. @BookBabe & I are going for a walk through #MiddleEarth & each of us will be listening to our own audiobooks 😆👏🏻. We can do it! #24in48 😎👍🏻

Cinfhen Yes you can 💪🏼❤️😃📚 7y
MrBook @Cinfhen 😁👏🏻👏🏻! 7y
LitsyGoesPostal 😊👍🏻 7y
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Chessa
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was a good (short!) book to kick off October with! I chose it to complete one of the #popsugarreadingchallenge categories - read a book and its prequel. I enjoyed Feed earlier this year, and I enjoyed Countdown as well. My heart broke just a tiny bit over Marigold. 💔 Why is it that the human deaths I was like, yeah yeah, but dog deaths = 😭😭😭. Something is wrong with me.

mllemay I'm the same with human deaths and pet deaths 😬 I don't know what it means about us... 7y
Chessa @mllemay Well, I'm glad that I'm not the only one! ❤️👍🏻 7y
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