Leather and suede, by-products of the meat industry, were forbidden in the vegan household. Geldorf's mother forces him to wear hemp clothing, to which he is scratchingly allergic: "Non-hemp solutions were unacceptable to Fanny Peters, environmental campaigner and humongous pain in the arse.
Geldorf Peters is a horny teenage boy who moons over his sexy, math-teacher neighbor while his vegan/pacifist/hippie/New-Age mother and his perpetually stoned father make his life a nightmare. See the publisher's blurb at the end of this post.)Īs the story opens, life in Glasgow is sluggishly normal for a group of eccentric citizens. (Note: There is a second book, but with a different title. The author plans a sequel to this novel entitled Cruel Britannia, publication date TBA. In 2011, Apocalypse Cow won the inaugural Terry Pratchitt Anywhere But Here, Anywhen But Now first novel award. We are essentially the same animals as thousands of years ago and can, once the rules governing civilized society no longer apply, easily revert." Call it a bovine Lord of the Flies response to survival. He goes on to explain that his book deals with "the fragility of human society, and how quickly people can retreat from the cooperative systems we have built to the basic instincts of individual survival in the face of a threat. In an online interview, Logan is quoted as saying that he relies on gallows humor to balance life's violence. Keep the parts that include the sexual transmission of AIDS and the animal-host origin of SARS, but make Patient Zero a cow instead of a human or a bat and place the action in Glasgow, Scotland, instead of Africa or Asia. Now add the bare bones of a men-in-black thriller. What results is a wild splatterific ride, fueled by black humor and driven by ironic twists. As the publishers' blurb warns: "Forget the cud. They’d become Italian.”) that occasionally veers into pure zombie horror.Here's the inventive world-building strategy that forms the basis for this wild and crazy series: Start with the HIV/AIDS and SARS pandemics.
The story is entertaining, but readers expecting a raucous laugh riot may be surprised to instead find dry British wit (“Extreme cases aside, the virus seemed to have translated into more arguments, a lot more sex, and an inability to queue. The interim British government considers taking drastic measures to preserve its own existence-such as using weapons of mass destruction on England. Teenage refugee Geldof Peters joins a mercenary team sent to extract his mother from hostile territory, and nothing goes according to plan.
When English journalist Lesley McBrien gets wind of a plan to utterly annihilate the British population, she tries to expose it but only ends up in trouble. The zombie onslaught continues in this off-kilter sequel to Apocalypse Cow, which sees most inhabitants of Great Britain, humans and animals alike, transformed into rage-fueled monsters by a brain-destroying virus.
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