Autumn: Disintegration - Softcover

Moody, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0575091444 ISBN 13: 9780575091443

Publisher: Gollancz, 2012

Synopsis

Forty days have passed since the end of the world began. Billions of people were killed in less than half a day and now the entire world is rotting. Everything is disintegrating ...

Survivors are few and far between in this deadly environment, and those who are still alive are forced to deal with a nightmare situation: the scale of the devastation is unprecedented. The shadowy landscape is swarming with the dead, their decaying bodies deteriorating day by day. Limited by their appalling physical condition, the only emotions they are able to display are anger, rage and hate and yet, remarkably, they are becoming more controlled. They are becoming self-aware, and they will defend themselves at all costs.

A group of eleven men and woman have managed to survive against the odds, protected by the geography of the land and sheltering in a derelict block of flats. They have been surrounded for weeks, but they have always been in control.

Until now. For the bodies are advancing. The situation is changing.

About this title

About the Author

David Moody was born in 1970 and grew up in Birmingham on a diet of trashy horror and pulp science fiction books and movies. He worked as a bank manager and as operations manager for a number of financial institutions before giving up the day job to write about the end of the world for a living. He has written a number of horror novels, including AUTUMN, which has been downloaded more than half a million times since publication in 2001 and has spawned a series of sequels and a movie starring Dexter Fletcher and David Carradine. Film rights to HATER have been bought by Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth) and Mark Johnson (producer of the Chronicles of Narnia films). Moody lives in the Midlands with his wife and a houseful of daughters and stepdaughters, which may explain his pre-occupation with Armageddon.

From the Back Cover

Forty days have passed since the end of the world began. Billions of people were killed in less than a day and now the entire world is rotting.



Those few who are still alive are dealing with a nightmare situation. The dead swarm the land, limited by their decaying bodies - and yet, remarkably, they are becoming more controlled. They are becoming self-aware, and they will defend themselves at all costs.



A group of men and woman have managed to survive against the odds, burning, smashing, battering and destroying every dead body they come across. Somewhere nearby, out of sight and out of earshot, another group of survivors have adopted a completely different strategy for survival: silence, restraint and self-control.



But a series of horrific events are about to force these two groups of people together and time is running out. With tension rising and fear reaching unbearable levels it's suddenly no longer clear whether the biggest threat comes from outside the walls of the shelter, or from within.



Praise for the AUTUMN series:

'David Moody continues to go against the trend by writing zombie fiction (without the word "zombie") and swapping gore for intelligent storytelling and deep character development. This is smart fiction, written with style and insight' Jonathan Maberry, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Patient Zero

'Autumn is genuinely creepy' David Wellington, bestselling author of Monster Island

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Edition details

• Publisher: Gollancz
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0575091444
• ISBN 13: 9780575091443
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384