Review: Well done zombie tale
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 25, 2012
"Cordyceps" starts in southern Florida with an outbreak of infected who are compelled to climb to maximize the airborne spread of the spores that are produced by the grotesque stalks that sprout from their corpses. A ruthlessly decisive general is given carte Blanche to deal with the crisis. Three friends attempt to comply with the order to evacuate the quarantined zone, but must cope with the near impossibility of moving along the jammed roads and the addition of "coughers" who spread the infection more aggressively, a la zombies.Mr. Duncan describes his people and locations very convincingly and he has just enough pop science to make his story straddle the line between pure zombie fiction and disaster/epidemic stories.  For me, the best sections were descriptions of the disaster response, and the weakest were the somewhat contrived explanations of the cause of the outbreak and it's vectors.  That said, this is a well written, scary book.