Z, Michael Thomas Ford
Z, Michael Thomas Ford
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Z

Author: Michael Thomas Ford

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Unabridged: 5 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 09/07/2010


Synopsis

The First Rule of Torching: Cleanse with fire. Josh is by far the best zombie Torcher around—at least, he is in his virtual-reality zombie-hunting game. Josh has quickly risen through the player ranks, relying on the skill, cunning, and agility of a real Torcher.The Second Rule of Torching: Save all humans.But luckily for Josh, zombies exist only in the virtual world. The real zombie war is now more than fifteen years in the past, and the battle to defeat the deadly epidemic that devastated his family—and millions of others—is the stuff of history lessons.The Third Rule of Torching: You can't bring them back.Charlie is the top-ranked player in the game. Since all the players are shrouded in anonymity, Josh never expects Charlie to be a girl—and he never expects the offer she makes him: to join the underground gaming league that takes the virtual-reality game off the screen and into the streets. Josh is thrilled. But the more involved he gets, the more he realizes that not everything is what it seems. Real blood is spilling, members of the team are disappearing, and the zombies in the game are acting strange. And then there's the matter of a mysterious drug called Z. . . .

About Michael Thomas Ford

Michael Thomas Ford is the award-winning author of numerous works for both adults and young readers, including Suicide Notes, as well as some of the earliest books about the HIV/AIDS crisis and several books about the LGBTQ community. He lives in rural Appalachia with his husband and dogs.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Josiah on October 24, 2019

Zombie stories are their own subgenre of science fiction; we're fascinated by the human body reanimating after death. Every storyteller's version of a world infiltrated by zombies has a different explanation for how it got that way, and these details are much of what determines if a work of zombie f......more

Goodreads review by Tina on October 08, 2010

Original post at One More Page One of our favorite past times/stress busters at work is zombie killing. No, seriously. Whenever we (namely Grace and I) find ourselves extremely stressed at work, and we have some money left, we'd troop over to Timezone (the nearest arcade at work) and start hogging th......more

Goodreads review by Raina on March 23, 2016

Solid zombie fic for the middle school set. Josh lives in a world after zombies. Fifteen years ago, before he was born, a zombie virus ripped through society. Now - to him -- they're a memory from the distant past. Josh himself enjoys playing simulated video games - killing zombies. His mom, on the......more

Goodreads review by Zombieslayer⚡Alienhunter on June 11, 2017

It's been a while- fifteen years or more- since the earth was plagued by a virus. This virus, piggybacked on common influenza, turned its victims feral and lit up the sensation center of the brain (sometimes called the reptilian center because of its size in lizards) like freaking Christmas. "They wer......more

Goodreads review by The Reading Raccoon on June 25, 2019

Read for Popsugar 2019 LitRPG but I don’t think it will apply. There is a video game but minimal discussion of scores, rank, etc. Average teen zombie book. None of the characters were particularly engaging.......more