The Afterblight Chronicles: The world has been devastated by an epidemic. Although there are pockets of an attempted continuation of civilisation, the truth is that the world has gone to hell in a handcart. The reason for this is a disease that has wiped out most of the world's population. It kills almost all those who are not of the blood group 'O neg'. Those people who survive are untouched. Everyone else dies. Infrastructures have collapsed. Mobs run rampant. The only kind of law that exists is that imposed by the people with the biggest guns. In this devastated and chaotic world who can bring hope and order? Death Got No Mercy (by Al Ewing): Cade didn't exactly care about people, but one of the people he most cared about was in trouble and he'd help out if he could. If that meant heading down to San Francisco - even though nobody ever came back from there alive - well, fine. This ain't a peaceful story and Cade... Cade isn't a peaceful man.
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Post apocalyptic romp where brooding hard case, Cade, must travel to San Francisco armed with little more than a set of bare knuckles.
It is intentionally rediciculous and the writing is extremely funny.
This is Al Ewing's third book for Abaddon, after the equally brilliant "El Sombra" and "I, Zombie". Can't wait for his "Gods of Manhattan" to be released.
It is intentionally rediciculous and the writing is extremely funny.
This is Al Ewing's third book for Abaddon, after the equally brilliant "El Sombra" and "I, Zombie". Can't wait for his "Gods of Manhattan" to be released.
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By W. Dean
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From the cover - a lunatic punching out a bear, one of the most remarkably accurate acts of scene-setting in fiction ever - to the entertaining, in-character back-cover blurb, there's never a dull moment in Death Got No Mercy. As others suggest, the book is mainly a series of ever more intense fights as anti-hero Cade ambles around post-cull San Francisco, looking for insulin for his 65-year-old trailer bunny lover, encountering fundamentalist Christians, capitalist cannibals, lunatic hippies and even the author himself, whirling his chains and frowning whenever he has to string more than four words together. It's knowing and enertaining trash, however, and long-term Al Ewing fans, of the 2000AD strip Zombo, for instance, will find lots of mileage in the witty prose, with the author's trademark blacker-than-black humour and some stealthy, laser-guided social commentary. Bloody brilliant.
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By John Clayton III
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With more well-known examples like Omega Man/I Am Legend or the BBC's Survivors tapering off through Showtime's Jeremiah to the mid-80s comic strip Survival - appearing in UK weekly The Eagle - that was a take on the viral apocalypse subgenre aimed at 8 year old children, it can be taken as read that Afterblight is far from an original concept even before you get to the already existing Survivalist series of novels set in a post-viral world (and which were the basis of at least one movie adaptation to date). This is not an original concept for a series of novels, but Death Got No Mercy is at least an original entry in the genre by taking the sociopathic type normally relegated to padding out the standard background characters of an ensemble cast and pushing him out front in a mercy quest prompted not by compassion or comraderie but by the character's knowing that if anyone else were to do the deed it would disrupt his routine for longer than if he simply went and did it himself, as Cade is a sociopath who didn't fit into normal society but who finds a post-apocalyptic world a lot more accomodating.
And so Cade begins his violent and monosyballic journey that sees him murdering at least two analogues for Hanna Barbera characters before he even gets into the city of San Francisco in which the majority of the Yojimbo-inspired plot takes place. It's great fun, taking elements of The Stand, Omega Man, Escape From New York and even Scooby Doo to make an entertaining and knowing romp that works just as much as a spoof of the of the Afterblight series as it does an addition to it.
And so Cade begins his violent and monosyballic journey that sees him murdering at least two analogues for Hanna Barbera characters before he even gets into the city of San Francisco in which the majority of the Yojimbo-inspired plot takes place. It's great fun, taking elements of The Stand, Omega Man, Escape From New York and even Scooby Doo to make an entertaining and knowing romp that works just as much as a spoof of the of the Afterblight series as it does an addition to it.
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Ewing Ain't got no Mercy
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Beware, truly awful
The hero sets out on a post apocalyptic quest to San Francico to replenish his geriatric poker/sex buddy's dwindling supply of insulin. Read more
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