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The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies |  | Authors: H.G. Wells, Eric S. Brown
Publisher: Coscom Entertainment
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Pages: 212
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1897217919
EAN: 9781897217917
ASIN: 1897217919
Publication Date: April 30, 2009
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The invasion begins . . . and the dead start to rise. There's panic in the streets of London as invaders from Mars wreak havoc on the living, slaying the populace with Heat-Rays and poisonous clouds of black smoke. Humanity struggles to survive against technology far beyond its own, meeting fear and death at every turn. But that's not the only struggle mankind must face. The dead are rising from their graves with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Friends, neighbours and loved ones lost to the war of the worlds are now the enemy and the Earth is forever changed. It's kill or be killed, if you want to survive, otherwise you might become one of the walking dead yourself.
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 An excellent addition to a niche market October 1, 2009
Keith Gouveia (Florida)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Speaking as a creator, I was a little squemish with the idea of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and deep down I knew if remotely successful, there would be more of its type. My assumption was correct, but my angst toward it was not. As a fan of Eric Brown, I took the plunge and I was certainly entertained. It's been at least a decade since the last time I cracked open my hardcover copy of War of the Worlds and in reading this incarnation I was taken back to a younger me. Eric has done a commendable job of intigrating Wells' voice with his own.
The reviewer before me couldn't be more wrong in his/her analysis of this book. Yes, the typo pointed out is an obvious error, but what book doesn't have several of those? Outside of that, I think the reviewer is thrown off by the British and Old World English variants. This is the original text with zombies spliced in. The breaks in paragraphs mentioned are to display newspaper headlines and emphasize them, a gimmick maybe, but certainly not an editing error. Coscom Entertainment has done a fantastic job with this, and all of its recent releases.
If you've never read this classic, then you should certainly do so right here. It is the classic with a little something extra, and if you have, perhaps it's time to revisit it with a little extra carnage and rekindle that magic.
 get an editor! September 30, 2009
barb sley (Plano, Texas USA)
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
The book was okay but the editor was asleep at the wheel! "The air was for of screams." Do you suppose he meant "full of..."? Errors like that ruin the book, which was mediocre at best. Also, many instances of errant line breaks so only half a line of type. Your brain sees a paragraph break when it isn't even the end of a sentence!
A very poor job and certainly not worth $15 for such a short (184 page) book.
Read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies instead; it is much more enjoyable.
 H.G. Wells classic with zombies! August 24, 2009
Sheri A. Gambino (Kansas City MO)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Eric has done it again, he never disappoints. This man eats, sleeps and thinks of zombies all day. He has taken a great classic story and added a zombie twist to it. Go buy it today and enjoy the adventure.
Invasions and the undead July 30, 2009
Patrick S. Dorazio (Cincinnati, Ohio)
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is the second book I have read recently that uses the template of a classic novel and layers over that the invasion of the undead. The first: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, while entertaining based on the novelty of a comedy of manners having brain eating zombies in it, didn't flow quite as well as this re-envisioning of The War of the Worlds.
Much like in the other book, the author here has let the original storyline remain in place, perhaps retaining upwards of 85% of the orginal text, while adding the additional concept of zombies being the result of the creatures that travel from Mars from earth and the residue found on their spaceships. The narrator does conjecture on this point (perhaps they passed through a field of asteroids,etc) but since this story retains its orginal ending, for the most part, we can assume that the martians did not intentionally bring this plague upon mankind, as they have no experience with bacteria on their own planet.
I have always enjoyed War of the Worlds, including the movies that have been derived from it. Eric Brown does a solid job here adding an element that pretty much makes sense. The irony is that both the undead and the Martians have need of humans-for their flesh and for their blood, which makes them both horrifying, although it is made clear that the most pertinent fear of all in this story is of the undead, who are vast in number and without intelligence. It is interesting to compare and contrast the difference between the concept of being devoured alive vs. being sucked dry like a giant bloodshake and which of these two methods would be worse.
While I would begin to grow weary of a great many full length re-writes of classics with zombies or other creatures of horrible legend if it became the fashion to do, I felt that P&P was an interesting novelty and WotW was a natural for a remake with the rotting fellows. Eric Brown hit the mark on this one and his own written passages smoothly transition with the rest of the novel-while it is clear what writing is his and not of the original just because of the subject matter, he does an excellent job in making the transitions from Wells to his own words seemless and unnoticeable, which is quite a trick given the original novel was written well over a century ago.
Flawless blend of genre and style May 23, 2009
Stephen A. North
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Mr. Brown takes a classic science fiction tale, adds his own brand of horror and retains Mr. Wells unique voice. This fast-paced day by day story of survival will keep your attention. And watch out, not all monsters are alien or undead---Some might look exactly like the guy next to you.
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