I have a real soft-spot for zombie apocalypse and dystopian future fiction. While on one of my frequent Let’s Trawl The Internet for upcoming books information, I stumbled across David Towsey’s debut, Your Brother’s Blood, which seems to offer something a little different to your typical zombie-horror novel. Here’s the synopsis:

The earth is a wasteland, with no technology, science, or medicine – but the dead don’t always die. Those who rise again are the Walkin’…

Thomas is thirty-two. He comes from the small town of Barkley. He has a wife there, Sarah, and a child, Mary; good solid names from the Good Book. And he is on his way home from the war, where he has been serving as a conscripted soldier. 

Thomas is also dead — he is one of the Walkin’. 

And Barkley does not suffer the wicked to live.

Perhaps this will be a nice contemporary of Daryl Gregory’s Raising Stony Mayhall? Regardless, here is an excerpt from the novel, one of my Most Anticipated of 2013… Continue reading →