Skeletons

by Al Sarrantonio

Book Overview

As the best and worst of humanity return to the earth as a skeletal army hell-bent on conquering the living, a small group of refugees finds itself drawn together by a single vision and a shared fate. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553297546
• ISBN13: 9780553297546
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A New Twist on the Walking Dead

The Earth is passing through a region of space with a strange life field. Some legends believe that the Earth passed this way once before and life sprang up on the planet. But this time there is already life on the planet. The result is a supercharge of life to the point that the dead start to walk.The walking dead take the form of skeletons surrounded by a hazy body. They are not mindless zombies. They retain the full knowledge of their past life. But put a skeleton near a normal living person and they go into a killing rage. Regular humans are becoming scarce. Even the skeletons who want to preserve normal humans have a hard time restraining themselves.Abraham Lincoln is back in the White House. He is leading the country in a new time of trouble with a new type of civil war. But the President also listens to his advisors. He knows that reanimation may be temporary and that regular humans need to survive to carry on once the skeletons stop.This is a wonderful new take on the walking dead theme. This is not a gore-fest. It is an intelligent working of a creation myth. Yes, there is a lot of death, but death is not the thrust or point of the story. Very well done and the ending is also rather unique. Check this one out.

End of the world excellence!

Sarrantonio delivers with this refreshing take on a familiar subject. Horrific and funny. His handling of historical figures and contempory celebs is not to be missed.

THE definitive book of 'us' against 'them'. A must read

The dead rise when our spec of the universe passes through cosmic gas, and they're intent on destroying humanity and creating they're own order. As the living rebel against the dead in a fight for survival it becomes obvious man's reign as the dominant species of earth has reached a fatal end.