This Dark Earth, John Hornor Jacobs
This Dark Earth, John Hornor Jacobs
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This Dark Earth

Author: John Hornor Jacobs

Narrator: Michael Gallagher

Unabridged: 6 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2019


Synopsis

The land is contaminated, electronics are defunct, the ravenous undead remain, and life has fallen into a nasty and brutish state of nature. Welcome to Bridge City, in what was once Arkansas: part medieval fortress, part Western outpost, and the precarious last stand for civilization. A ten-year-old prodigy when the world ended, Gus is now a battle-hardened young man. He designed Bridge City to protect the living few from the shamblers eternally at the gates. Now he's being groomed by his physician mother, Lucy, and the gentle giant Knock-Out to become the next leader of men. But an army of slavers is on its way, and the war they'll wage for the city's resources could mean the end of mankind as we know it.
Can Gus become humanity's savior? And if so, will it mean becoming a dictator, a martyr . . . or maybe something far worse than even the zombies that plague the land?

"This smart addition to the zombie genre is heroic and strangely hopeful, championing the unyielding human drive for justice and civilization." - Publishers Weekly

"This Dark Earth is a smart, thoughtful look at the end of humanity that delivers horrifying detail packed with an emotional resonance. It's The Road meets World War Z. Deftly written, with eloquent prose peppered with crisp, dark humor, Jacobs crafts a chillingly believable tale that transcends genre fiction and manages to do what I long for whenever I sit down to read a book: make me wish I'd written it."
- Scott G. Browne, author of Breathers and Lucky Bastard

"A savage gut-punch of a tale, lurching hellbent to a spectacular showdown ending unparalleled in the zombie canon."
- Sophie Littlefield, author of Aftertime and Rebirth

"This Dark Earth is, quite simply, the best zombie novel I've read in years. Breathes some much-needed new life into the dead."
- Brian Keene, best-selling author of The Rising and Ghoul

About John Hornor Jacobs

John Hornor Jacobs' first novel, Southern Gods, was shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel. His young adult series, The Incarcerado Trilogy comprised of The Twelve-Fingered Boy, The Shibboleth, and The Conformity, was described by Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing as ""amazing"" and received a starred Booklist review. His Fisk & Shoe fantasy series composed of The Incorruptibles, Foreign Devils, and Infernal Machines has thrice been shortlisted for the David Gemmell Award and was described by Patrick Rothfuss like so: ""One part ancient Rome, two parts wild west, one part Faust. A pinch of Tolkien, of Lovecraft, of Dante. This is strange alchemy, a recipe I’ve never seen before. I wish more books were as fresh and brave as this."" His fiction has appeared in Playboy Magazine, Cemetery Dance, Apex Magazine. Follow him on Twitter at @johnhornor.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Trudi on March 18, 2013

Liked it overall, but I did have my problems with it. The Good: 1. The zombies (aka zeds, shamblers, revs (short for revenants)) -- there is nothing unique about Jacobs' zombies: they are slow, and gooshy, and stink. They are dangerous in hordes and are attracted to sound. All this we've seen before......more

Goodreads review by Lou on December 18, 2012

Let me lay all the cards on the table and let me tell it to you in a straight and simple way of what we have here before us. In this story John Hornor Jacobs has put before us a case of the good, the bad and the ugly! The Good = a mum, son and a father = courageous, survivors and fighters. The Bad = the......more

Goodreads review by Mauoijenn on February 01, 2015

Ever wonder what it might be like to restart civilization after zombies?! Well read this book. It takes you through the start of the zombie rise to starting life over. Very neat story line. A little off track in the middle but it gets back on track, still a good book.......more

Goodreads review by Kristin on March 16, 2012

Amazing! Review to come closer to release date, but you should go pre-order this one now...seriously :-D......more

Goodreads review by Horror on October 06, 2019

Believe it or not, it's finally here: a zombie novel for the thinking crowd. Well, more than a zombie novel, John Hornor Jacobs' This Dark Earth is an epic tale of survival that studies the evolution of society from the moment all hell breaks loose until just a few survivors are left facing an uncer......more