Lesser Creatures
by:
Peter Giglio (author)
Fifteen years. That's how long the dead have walked among the living. But these corpses aren't the feral monsters mankind feared. Instead, known as Second-Lifers, they appear relatively harmless and in need of help, presenting a strain on an already struggling economy and creating a generation...
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Fifteen years. That's how long the dead have walked among the living. But these corpses aren't the feral monsters mankind feared. Instead, known as Second-Lifers, they appear relatively harmless and in need of help, presenting a strain on an already struggling economy and creating a generation with the fewest technological advances in centuries.
But change is coming…
The leader of a burgeoning religion delivers a revelation…a second-lifer is offered a new career…and a down-on-his-luck ad man comes face to face with his painful past. Connected by a haunting, obscure tune from the 1970s, and a bizarre magic few understand, they are all thrust into a dark weekend of the soul, with the very fate of the world hanging in the balance.
In the tradition of Philip K. Dick, Lesser Creatures is a dark, terrifying and sometimes satirical glimpse of a possible near-future, a wicked love letter to a wide-eyed, apocalypse-ready generation. And, perhaps, a wakeup call.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781937771584 (193777158X)
Publish date: December 3rd 2013
Publisher: DarkFuse
Pages no: 206
Edition language: English
Lesser Creatures is a story of loss, love, and the undead. The undead in this read are called "second-lifers" who are not the ravenous, flesh-eating bodies with teeth we have come to know and shoot in the head. These SL's are a drain on the community and are a stain that can't be washed away for som...
This is a vastly different take on zombies and it really brings something fresh to the genre which has become pretty tired recently.It also says something about society and how it treats those that are 'undesirable', seen as a plague and an economic burden.My favourite aspect of this read was the lo...
If you've read one zombie novel, them you've read them all. Right? Wrong. Giglio provides a refreshing take on zombies in this truly unique story. The zombies (known as second-lifers) look like regular humans that are still alive (first-lifers). In here, the second-lifers do not pose a threat to f...
15 years ago the dead started to return to life. They were not hungry for brains, but would prefer a nice fast food burger and single malt. (Ok, scratch the single malt, Jack is fine.) They have become a terrible financial burden on society and have taken on the status of “lesser creatures”. What so...
Title: Lesser Creatures Who Wrote it? Pushcart prize nominee and Horror Writers Association member, Peter Giglio. Plot in a Box: The dead are coming back to life, but they don't want to eat your brain, they want to destroy the economy. Invent a New Title for this Book: Dole of the Dead...