Plague Zone

by Jeff Carlson

Book Overview

After surviving the Archos plague and the wars that followed, Ruth Goldman and Cam Najarro find peace in a village hidden in the Rockies, but the race for weaponized nanotech has accelerated. America... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0441017991
• ISBN13: 9780441017997
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Plague Zone Satisfies!

Jeff Carlson finishes his Plague Year trilogy with a satisfying adventure even bigger and better than the first two books. This trilogy continues to be a fine example of post-apocalyptic action-adventure, gritty and compelling. I hate spoilers, so I won't speak to its storyline except to say that the rollercoaster ride of thrills, chills, technology, biology, and suspense continues, this time with a larger dose of romance which was welldone and a perfect part of the characters. Highly recommended. Its not often that a new author hits his stride so quickly. I'm eager to see what he comes up with next.

An Awesome, Terrifying End To This Series

I don't read a huge amount of sci fi, but I have friends who do, which is how I got into these books in the first place, and they tell me Jeff Carlson was nominated for the Campbell Best New Writer Award for PLAGUE YEAR and the Philip K Dick Award for PLAGUE WAR. I have to think PLAGUE ZONE will be a contender for another of science fictions' awards. This book is the best of a very good trilogy, an honest-to-goodness highpower rollercoaster ride slamming its way through nonstop adventure and big new ideas, science, biology, weapons technology, you name it. PLAGUE ZONE works as a standalone but I think it will be more satisfying to people who've followed the trilogy all the way through. Highly recommended.

This Trilogy Ends With a BANG !!!

My love affair with the Plague Year continues. Each of these books gets better than the last, which is an amazing accomplishment. The first book needs to be made into a movie so Hollywood can make an entire trilogy of eye candy like with The Matrix. Plague Zone works as a stand-alone novel but is probably best enjoyed if you've read Plague Year and Plague War first. Jeff Carlson wreaks such havoc on our planet that jumping into the story here might give you vertigo. It will definitely scare the pants off of everyone! As a culmination of the story, Plague Zone really delivers hot-and-cold running thrills with a new bad guy, a new threat, and all of my favorite characters like Cam, Ruth, Allison, and Sarah Foshtomi, who's still a fiery and beautiful tough guy. I won't write any more spoilers here except to say that Carlson's writing continues to be jampacked with shocks, reversals, big new ideas and science, and rock `em sock `em action sequences. Hollywood, where are you? Shia LeBeouf would make an amazing Cam Najarro. Hoff

Great way to finish the trilogy.

I discovered these books just a couple months ago. I'm a recent post-apocalyptic book junkie! Can't get enough. This was a great book with surprises and twists. It keeps you on your toes and is never dull. There is always something new and frightening. It really makes you think about your own ability to cope in a scenario like this. My only complaint is that it's so good, I read it too fast. It's one of those stories you never want to end.

Great finale to a heckuva series

I picked up the original book in Mr. Carlson's series, "Plague Year", on a whim- the cover looked intriguing, and the synopsis interesting enough. Little did I know I would be up all night reading, unable to put the book down. So it became that I immediately pre-ordered the other books in the series as soon as it became available. "Plague Zone" is a fitting (and somewhat welcome for my sleep cycle) end to the series. Three years after the Machine Plague was unleashed on the world- tiny nanobots that destroy all animals, but self-destruct at altitudes greater than 10,000 feet- humanity survives, maintaining a toehold on our world. But it seems sometimes old grudges never go away, and a new machine plague threatens that precarious balance. Sometimes, science fiction authors seem to try and add a romance subplot or flesh out their characters in an attempt to make the stories seem more "real"- however, many times these seem contrived and forced. This book, as the other ones in the series, avoid those pitfalls well. Mr. Carlson fleshes out his characters convincingly, and does well in balancing their back stories and interpersonal drama with action. The only small quibbles I have with the book are entirely personal- for instance, Mr. Carlson never once mentions the fate of the US Navy (which, as an ex-sailor, I of course am intrigued to find out, heh). Come now, Mr. Carlson, intriguing minds wanted to know! But in all seriousness, this is a great book. But try not to pick it up the night before you have to be at work at oh-dark-thirty.