When Will You Rise Coming from Subterranean Press

Mira Grant, author of Feed*, has a new novella and short story — When Will You Rise, scheduled for release from Subterranean Press. Feed has been sitting on my nightstand just waiting to be read, and now that there’s more fiction set in that world headed our way it seems as if it’s time I sit down and read the first book.

Too many books and never enough time.

The end of the world has to start somewhere. In the summer of 2014, two scientific breakthroughs—one, a cure for cancer, the other, a cure for the common cold—seemed certain to change the future of mankind forever. What no one could have guessed was that these miraculous advancements would change humanity’s future by nearly bringing it to an end.

“Countdown” is the first novella set in the world of Feed, and tracks the early days of the Rising, from well-meaning medical research to the dead beginning to walk. Meet the accidental creators of the zombie apocalypse, and ask yourself for the first time: When will you Rise?

A Mira Grant short story, “Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box,” is also included. It’s the chronicle of a high school game turned deadly, the things we do for friendship, and the true cost of learning things man wasn’t meant to know.