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I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas [Hardcover]

Adam Roberts (Author)
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Publication Date: 1 Oct 2009

Marley was dead. Again.

The legendary Ebenezeer Scrooge sits in his house counting money. The boards that he has nailed up over the doors and the windows shudder and shake under the blows from the endless zombie hordes that crowd the streets hungering for his flesh and his miserly braaaaiiiiiinns!

Just how did the happiest day of the year slip into a welter of blood, innards and shambling, ravenous undead on the snowy streets of old London town?

Will the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future be able to stop the world from drowning under a top-hatted and crinolined zombie horde?

Was Tiny Tim's illness something infinitely more sinister than mere rickets and consumption? Can Scrooge be persuaded to go back to his evil ways, travel back to Christmas past and destroy the brain stem of the tiny, irritatingly cheery Patient Zero?

It's the Dickensian Zombie Apocalypse - God Bless us, one and all!

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  • Hardcover: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz (1 Oct 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0575091541
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575091542
  • Product Dimensions: 13.4 x 1.6 x 20.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 273,918 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Adam Roberts reworks a Christmas Carol into a zombie-slashing gore-fest. Lots of corny jokes and groanworthy one-liners, lots and lots of brain slurping zombies. Clever and daft in equal measure." DAILY MAIL "Imagine a historical Shaun of the Dead written with as many bad zombie puns as you can think of... Like Monty Python at its best though, I Am Scrooge doesn't talk down to its audience. Ranks alongside Blackadder's Christmas Carol as a great comic take on Dickens." TOTAL SCI FI "A Halloween treat and Christmas stocking present all rolled into one... 'I Am Scrooge' is nothing less than great fun from start to finish." -- Graeme Flory GRAEME'S FANTASY BOOK REVIEW "It is apparent that Adam Roberts had a tremendous amount of fun writing I am Scrooge. He plays with the language and name-drops throughout the novel. Scrooge is thrown up against a variety of zombies and never for a moment think that this novel is about character development, or a commentary on the political climes of the day or anything remotely high brow. This is guns blazing silliness to a high degree... but you'll enjoy yourself nonetheless." -- Liz De Jager SF REVU "It's humour is the main draw here, which never lets up. The pop culture references also come in thick and fast too. The prose is witty and the pacing fast and flowing. If you want a nice, fun read you can't go wrong with this quirky little title that will leave you chomping at the bit." -- Amy Squibb SCI FI NOW

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A Christmas Carol with added festive zombie gore.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars A Stocking Filler 9 Nov 2009
By M. Dowden HALL OF FAME TOP 50 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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Out in time for Christmas comes this re-working of a Christmas Carol. WIth London and then the world about to fall prey to a zombie infection Scrooge finds he is the only person immune from the zombie plague. Will Scrooge be the last man standing, or will he and the three ghosts of Christmas manage to alter the inevitable outcome?

With guest appearances by Charles Dickens and H G Wells there are lots of in-jokes referring to books, and some to films. There are loads of puns here, but because there are so many and so many ideas crammed into this relatively short novel it all becomes a bit too chaotic. With sci-fi thrown into the zombir horror mix there is just way too much to take in in one go, ultimately detracting from what could have been something much better. This would have been better if it had been in a longer novel, or even spread over two books.

If you are looking for a humourous book as a stocking filler for Christmas then this may do, it is something to read when you are bloated with too much turkey on the big day and want to put your feet up.
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1.0 out of 5 stars I am Adam, age 12, please read my book! 20 Aug 2010
By The man dressed as a light bulb
Format:Hardcover
I, like another reviewer, love Christmas and I love Zombies so I thought this would be my cup of tea.

I wanted to love it, I gave it every chance to impress me but I HATE the writer. This "book" is clearly the result of a massive mix up at the printers. It reads like a first draft, not a finished book.

Adam Roberts takes full paragraphs to explain stupid little inner thoughts about which word is the correct one to fit the purpose intended.

This 12 year old child named "Adam" has completely ruined what could have been a fantastic idea...

For shame...

Avoid at all costs.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars A disappointment 9 Feb 2010
By Ms. J. Lovatt
Format:Hardcover
I was really looking forward to this because i love christmas and i love zombies and the combination should have been mind blowing. It was not. It was clear to me that the author thought he was funnier than he actually was. I found myself not wanting to pick it up and read more and wanting to accidentilly leave it somewhere so that i would have an excuse not to finish it. Maybe i am being a little bit harsh, but still, a waste of time and money. Maybe my expectations were too high but i didn't enjoy it at all.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great twist on an amazing classic
`I Am Scrooge' merges the Christmas classic `A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens with the more modern zombie novel `I Am Legend' by Richard Matheson. Read more
Published 2 months ago by ramblingsofanelfpire
5.0 out of 5 stars 5 star
I chose this rating as the product was posted quickly and I was able to get it as part of my Christmas present to someone in time!
Published 4 months ago by Alice Ryan
2.0 out of 5 stars Don't expect too much
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Well it is an odd little story to say the least. At 153 pages it is a tad too long, I feel it started out decent and got a few smirks if not giggles but then... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Lainy
1.0 out of 5 stars If you are looking for a laugh, look somewhere else
I had high hopes for this book, I placed my order and saved it until the weekend before Christmas to read and was bitterly and utterly dissapointed. Read more
Published on 23 Dec 2010 by Ell_94
4.0 out of 5 stars Delicious!
I stumbled upon this book quite by accident and bought it just out of curiosity. It turned out to be a wonderfully subverted story akin to Blackadder. Read more
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This is a great re-write on the Scrooge, Christmas Carol, Story. All the characters are there, just different. Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2010 by Alan Law
3.0 out of 5 stars A Fairly Entertaining Read
What can I say about this book? It's certainly different... gory... entertaining. A story based on Dicken's 'A Christmas Carol' with brain eating zombies, what's not to like? Read more
Published on 11 Jan 2010 by Book Chick City
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I bought this book on spec. - being a Bah Humbug myself AND a fan of most things zombie - and I wasn't disappointed. Read more
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This book is brilliant!!! Written in a mock Dickensian style it never loses pace and keeps you laughing and gripped throughout. We finished it in 3 days it was so good. Read more
Published on 9 Dec 2009 by Mr. Miles O'gorman
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With the Christmas season once again beating its way towards you (and lets face it, the decorations are fighting against the Halloween decorations already) then you probably want... Read more
Published on 1 Nov 2009 by Gareth Wilson - Falcata Times Blog
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