Review: Good stories, interesting "smart zombie" concept
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 30, 2011
Collapse, Tales of the Zombie Chronicles, is an anthology of short stories highlighting individuals and their response to the collapse of the world as we know it.  Contender, the final story in the book, is my favorite (and I think the best) of all of Mark Clodi's Zombie Chronicles stories.  It centers around a young boy, Hon, who somehow manages to survive the zombies, and despite great loss, begins to care about the tough Southern men who have taken him in.  Gorgeous, evocative story, and I hope that the author will tell us more about Hon's life.If you are not familiar with the Zombie Chronicles, the blurb for the series says..."The `Zombie Chronicles' universe, where the zombies don't stay mindless, shambling adversaries. Instead they grow smarter, faster and stronger as they feed on the flesh of the living."...and to that statement I would add, "And where zombie-fighting humans begin to suspect that they, too, are changing as they struggle to survive in this bleak world."Author Mark Clodi distinguished The Zombie Chronicles by coming up with the very novel idea that Romero-type zombies could learn and grow as they feed.  The human survivors in the Zombie Chronicles world therefore have to content with both types of zombies as they try to survive.  This makes for some great stories.