Book Blog: Autumn by David Moody

I have the feeling I've read this book before, quite a long time ago, which is certainly possible as it was written in 2001. I'm more in the mood to appreciate it now. It's a zombie novel written before the huge flood in the last few years, and quite distinct from most of them. It is British. Very British.

Autumn features one firearm in the entire book, known as "the rifle." That's all we need to know because any gun, presumably in this case a hunting rifle, would be able to take out a human being with a headshot, zombied or otherwise.

It also features a random selection of very ordinary Britons, upon whom the zompoc falls without warning, except that a lot of people are off sick from work on the day everything falls apart. There's Michael, a midlevel computer geek whose boss makes him go and talk to unappreciative high school students, Emma, a medical student and Carl, a maintenance guy. He's the only one with a family to lose among these three, which is crucial for later developments in the story. They're all doing their not-too-exciting thing on this day. In this, the book is certainly like most other zombie novels.

( This got a bit long so the rest of the review is in here. )