Monster Nation (novel)
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| Author | David Wellington |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | David Wellington's Monster trilogy |
| Genre | Horror |
| Publisher | Thunder's Mouth Press |
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2005 |
| Media type | e-book & Paperback |
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| OCLC | 190966719 |
| Preceded by | Monster Island |
| Followed by | Monster Planet |
Monster Nation (2005) is a serial novel by David Wellington. It concerns the opening days of a zombie apocalypse and the end of the world.
The novel was originally serialized online. It is a prequel to Monster Island (published online in 2004 and in print in 2006), and is one of a trilogy of novels, which also includes Monster Planet (2005).
The Colorado National Guard is called in to investigate a strange epidemic at ADX Florence. Its officers struggle to contain the disease before it overruns the United States, and search for a mysterious woman who may be vital to the solution.
The novel begins with a mysterious woman in California being bitten on the street by a random man who walks up to her. She runs into the nearest establishment, an oxygen bar and proceeds to get high while waiting for the police to show up. The police arrive and take her to the hospital where a zombie outbreak is occurring. Although restrained, she manages to convince a nurse to let her go, a nurse who is then consumed by zombies.
While this is occurring, we are also introduced to two additional characters, Captain Bannerman Clark and Dick Walters. Captain Bannerman Clark is in the Colorado Army National Guard and is the Rapid Assessment and Initial Detection Officer in Charge, making him the always ready first man on the scene of any major disaster, trained to get the best intelligence on the situation and report to others who will take over. He is called away from enjoying a steak dinner alone to investigate an outbreak of what is believed to be a biological weapon at a prison in Colorado which spread from the prisoners to the guards, causing them to become perceived cannibals. The warden of the prison had travelled to California and had succumbed to the biological agent there, biting and infecting a young woman. Clark then goes to California to assess the damage.
Dick Walters is travelling in the rural areas of Colorado to check on an outbreak of an infectious agent in sheep. When he arrives at the farm, the woman he is there to visit greets him with a gun and surmises quickly he is not, "One of them." She takes him to an abandoned mine shaft where several zombies are trapped, zombies which ate her husband and young son. The pair spend the night on the roof of her cabin, waiting for the walkers to come.
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