Zombiality A Queer Bent on Zombie Fiction edition by William Tucker Literature Fiction eBooks
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Zombiality A queer bent on the undead.
"Zombies do't' care who you love ... they want to eat us all."
This book contains 28 stories with a perspective on zombies never quite imagined before. These stories reflect a variety of queered lives and experiences and explor the depths of what a zombie is.
From the traditional to the fantastical, these stories are sure to entertain all of humankind.
Zombiality A Queer Bent on Zombie Fiction edition by William Tucker Literature Fiction eBooks
I was all set to enjoy a fresh take on the tired zombie genre, but that's hard to do with this amateurishly presented anthology.The default font on the entire ebook is too small and it doesn't enlarge much even when you change it manually on the kindle.
There is no table of contents, and no cover art although these would be BASIC requirements in a proper short story collection IMHO! You can't easily skip around to your favorite author(s).
Sadly, the worst thing is that many "spaces" are taken up by a capital letter "E" (formatting symbol?), making reading paragraphs and endings to sentences a real chore. This is random too, but very prevalent in some stories.
(Patrick D'Orazio, my favorite zombie author, would be pissed to see the hatchet job done on his story. I bought this ebook specifically because he had an entry in the anthology, and I'd enjoyed his "Dark Trilogy" so much.)
I'm sure the other authors who contributed their works to this collection would not be happy to know that their efforts were regarded with such little care.
C'mon Mr. William Tucker, (editor), it is not that difficult to reformat this collection properly and give the authors and readers their due. You can still use Calibre to do that!
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Separately, the story by Patrick D'Orazio is worth the price of the book alone. I wish it had been expanded into a full novel, but it is perfect in short story form as well. Without giving too much away, this is a very UNIQUE take on the zombie apocalypse mythos.
There are several clever twists in the plot and the story works well without being "gay-centric" or agenda driven. It would make a GREAT movie.
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Follow up: The PRINTED version of this book does NOT suffer from the formatting issues.
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Zombiality A Queer Bent on Zombie Fiction edition by William Tucker Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
The few stories I read in the version of this book were decent, hence the 3-star rating. However, the version of this book is such a sloppy, badly formatted copy that it's hard to get a feel for the overall quality of the book. I only got about a third of the way through before I gave up in a state of irritation. The writers may deserve 4 or 5 stars but until I get a version of this book that's actually, you know, readable, I can't tell.
Although it has a few "typos" lets be serious, at the end of the day its the content that counts. The material was fresh, interesting and fills a gap for anyone who loves their zombies!
I read this book because it was a different spin on the Zombie genre. At first I thought a queer bent, what does that mean? Stories that were all going to be silly or have flamboyant characters? I could not have been more off base, not only was I stunned at the quality of the stories in this anthology, but the premises also floored me. They were unique, inventive, creative, some were funny, some heart wrenching, others gory fun. This is a book anyone can read if they have an appreciation for zombie themed stories, I loved this book and ever read several stories twice, and a few like the one from Patrick D'Orazio I wanted to go on and on, it would make a great novel the idea was so original.
The 28 stories in this anthology cover all aspects of zombiedom, from trying to remain hidden within the darkness of a gay bar in "The Duval Crawl" by David E. Chrisom to the infected slowly turning into the undead as with "Eating Peaches" by Rachel Green to life in the new world after the apocalypse in "Humans Being Human" by Patrick D'Orazio. Some stories even ventured to show the world through the eyes of the undead, such as in "Dead Boy Number One" by Quinn Smithwood about man slowly turning into a zombie but being able to make a living as an actor/artist with his newfound "life", and in "Food Chain" by C.S. Stephens in which the walking talking and thinking undead live normal lives whereas the living are raised as nothing more than food or pets. Some of the more intriguing stories such as "Humans Being Human" or Tony Schaab's "Accepting Death" broach the idea that zombies don't harm gay men and women and instead seek out straight people. Those two rank among my top three stories in the book, with Eric Andrews-Katz's "ZOMB-malion" -- a gay and zombie take on Shaw's Pygmalion and starring Eliza Droolittle -- hilariously rounding out my favorites.
I admit to not enjoying all the stories. In Vince A Liaguno's "Stonewall Rising", the idea that a zombie bite turns anyone into the gay undead was a bit off-putting to me. And with "The Quick and the Undead" from Thomas Farringer-Logan, I found the narrator's way of speaking difficult to follow, though the gist of the story is good.
But it's the main driving force behind each of these stories -- having LGBT characters as the protagonists, telling stories from their point of view -- that makes this a worthwhile collection of stories. Zombie fans, both gay and straight, will enjoy this gathering of undead.
I was all set to enjoy a fresh take on the tired zombie genre, but that's hard to do with this amateurishly presented anthology.
The default font on the entire ebook is too small and it doesn't enlarge much even when you change it manually on the kindle.
There is no table of contents, and no cover art although these would be BASIC requirements in a proper short story collection IMHO! You can't easily skip around to your favorite author(s).
Sadly, the worst thing is that many "spaces" are taken up by a capital letter "E" (formatting symbol?), making reading paragraphs and endings to sentences a real chore. This is random too, but very prevalent in some stories.
(Patrick D'Orazio, my favorite zombie author, would be pissed to see the hatchet job done on his story. I bought this ebook specifically because he had an entry in the anthology, and I'd enjoyed his "Dark Trilogy" so much.)
I'm sure the other authors who contributed their works to this collection would not be happy to know that their efforts were regarded with such little care.
C'mon Mr. William Tucker, (editor), it is not that difficult to reformat this collection properly and give the authors and readers their due. You can still use Calibre to do that!
============================================================================================
Separately, the story by Patrick D'Orazio is worth the price of the book alone. I wish it had been expanded into a full novel, but it is perfect in short story form as well. Without giving too much away, this is a very UNIQUE take on the zombie apocalypse mythos.
There are several clever twists in the plot and the story works well without being "gay-centric" or agenda driven. It would make a GREAT movie.
================================================================================================
Follow up The PRINTED version of this book does NOT suffer from the formatting issues.
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