I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas - Softcover

Roberts, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0575094907 ISBN 13: 9780575094901

Publisher: Gollancz, 2012

Synopsis

Award nominated SF author Adam Roberts takes on Dickens in this festive zombie gorefest.

Marley was dead. To begin with.

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?

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

About this title

About the Author:

Adam Roberts is Professor of 19th Century Literature at Royal Holloway London University. His novels, Salt and Gradisil were shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. He has also published a number of academic works on both 19th century poetry and SF. He lives in Ascot with his wife and two children.

Review:

"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

"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

"Guns blazing silliness to a high degree."  —SF REVU

About this edition

• Publisher: Gollancz
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0575094907
• ISBN 13: 9780575094901
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192