"ZVR Diplomacy"
Zombies Vs Robots: Diplomacy
By: Mike Dubisch
Genres: Young Adult Science Fiction
Posted: July 6, 2013
The stories are varied, ranging from a desperate last ditch defence of Moscow helped by ingenious farmers to a tale of what can happen when robots go wrong, and even the story of a fearful choice having to be made by the King of England, where he is the only one who can make the decision...
Edited by Jeff Conner ZVR Diplomacy hosts stories by a number of authors including, but by no means limited to, Ekaterina Sedia who has been published in Analog and Clarkesworld, Dale Bailey who has won the The International Horror Guild Award and Simon Kurt Unsworth who has appeared in anthologies including The Very Best of Best New Horror.
With lots of blood and gore, well written and with twists in the plots of many of the tales this will appeal to Horror / SF fans. ZVR Diplomacy is one of a series of Zombies VS Robots collections.
Book Summary
An international gorefest is the main attraction of the eight original stories gathered in this anthology, fourth in a series that invites writers to riff on the weird juxtaposition of zombies and robots. The odd combination sometimes does make the undead look more lively, aided by fresh settings in the U.K. and Russia. The zombies are a standard swarm of rotting, shambling brain-munchers, but the robots are a more varied lot as they reflect the varieties of human foolishness in trying to fend off the living dead. Some of the stories simply groove on the conflict’s absurdity; the most successful of these is the outrageously over-the-top “Beheaded by Whip-wielding Nun” by Simon Clark. Others, such as Ekaterina Sedia’s “Timka” and Simon Kurt Unsworth’s “Spinbot”, try to find human interest in the hopeless struggle.
by: Mike Dubisch
Imajinn
July 1, 2013
On Sale: July 9, 2013
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274 pages
ISBN: 1613776462
EAN: 9781613776469
Kindle: B00DHH12B4
Paperback / e-Book