Severed
When an unknown virus is unleashed on London, it turns everyone in its path into violent, zombie-like killing machines, leaving their souls separated and floating away to form a giant halo above the capital. Flesh and spirit, dead and alive, they are both. They are severed.As a beleaguered...
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When an unknown virus is unleashed on London, it turns everyone in its path into violent, zombie-like killing machines, leaving their souls separated and floating away to form a giant halo above the capital. Flesh and spirit, dead and alive, they are both. They are severed.As a beleaguered government brings in scientists to work on an antidote, the problems become even more complex. The virus spreads. The mayhem grows. There's no solution in sight and time is running out.Enter Stephen Hobbs, a hard-drinking, womanizing academic with a violent past of his own. Due to his special skill set and experience, he is enlisted to figure out what the virus is and how to stop it. Despite his own demons, Hobbs may very well be humanity's last chance to survive becoming…SEVERED.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781940544052 (194054405X)
ASIN: 194054405X
Publish date: 2014-04-01
Publisher: DarkFuse
Pages no: 274
Edition language: English
I wanted a quick read for the train today, so I settled on Severed to amuse me while I traveled home. The long and the short of it? Great premise, shaky execution. The underlying concept of this novella is pretty terrifying. I liked the fact this wasn't your average zombie novel. Sadly, the writing ...
A new virus is unleashed on London which causes severance of people's souls from their body. This results in the physical body becoming something akin to a zombie with an appetite for extreme violence. The government decide to bring in disgraces academic Stephen Hobbs to save the day, Stephen howeve...
The idea behind this short novella is that the human..yes you and I have two sides to our personality, an emotional side and a moral side. What stops us being out and out bastards! is our moral conscience and if we did not have this conscience then there would be no inner body policeman and all hell...
Are there two parts to the human soul? Are we all just a violent shell, awaiting separation from our “better halves” so that we may indulge in our most bestial desires of rage and vengeance? And if so, is there a way to become whole again? Something is making the citizens of London go into a murder...