Life After: The Arising (The ‘Life After’ Series) - Softcover

Way, Bryan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615851827 ISBN 13: 9780615851822

Publisher: Bryan Way, 2013

Synopsis

In a scientific and spiritual sense, humanity has its world ordered, but that order slowly descends into chaos when something defies the tenets of both, leaving the events of human history divided into life before and life after the bodies of the dead began to reanimate.
College student Jeff Grey comes home to be confronted by something he'd only read about in fiction and seen in movies: Zombies. Despite lungs beset by asthma and a total lack of survival skills, his lifelong desire to endure an undead apocalypse sees him unite a small group of acquaintances, but with the town quarantined as emergency infrastructure breaks down, Jeff and the rest of the survivors will have to grow up fast if they want to see a life after the arising.

About this title

From the Author:

Life After: The Arising is my first novel. My love of zombies began when I got my 8-year-old hands on Nancy E. Krulik's Shock Shots novelette, but didn't truly flourish until I played Resident Evil 2, then watched George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead. Zombie fiction was soon to follow, and by the time I hit college, I realized I longed for something blending the genre's silly tendencies with its grim ones, something at turns humorous, depressing, invigorating, and terrifying. And thus, the Life After series was born.
The story began as adolescent wish fulfillment, but the older I got, the more I realized I was using the apocalypse to explore what it means to become an adult. Like my protagonist, I left college believing myself to be fully prepared for the workforce and mature relationships, but I was stunned to discover how little I knew. Adulthood refused to conform to my expectations; my career wasn't what I'd intended, my heartaches were no less potent, and living day to day was more confusing and challenging than I'd imagined. In spite of this, I managed to have fun, fall in love, and learn that getting older isn't something to fear. For better or worse, I began to truly appreciate the important things in life.
Granted, I didn't kill any zombies along the way, but the embrace of this realization narrowed my focus for what Life After: The Arising could be: an entertaining but substantive coming-of-age odyssey in an apocalyptic landscape.

About the Author:

Bryan is a graduate of Temple University and lives near Philadelphia, where he writes novels, articles, short stories, and screenplays.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bryan Way
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0615851827
• ISBN 13: 9780615851822
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 455
• Illustrator: Korsak Ryan