Book Preview This is another way the end of Feed could have gone: it picks up with the events of what would originally have been chapter twenty-five. It is not what happened. Rise up while you can. No one gets to ask us for anything more. Not now, not ever. When history looks our way—stupid, … Read more
Book Preview Countdown “The Rising is ultimately a story of humanity at both its very best, and at its very worst. If a single event were needed to represent all of human history, we could do worse than selecting the Rising.” —Mahir Gowda “People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn’t blame science. People should blame … Read more
Book Preview My story ended where so many stories have ended since the Rising: with a man—in this case, my adoptive brother and best friend, Shaun—holding a gun to the base of my skull as the virus in my blood betrayed me, transforming me from a thinking human being into something better suited to a … Read more
Book Preview Sometimes you need lies to stay alive. —SHAUN MASON Sometimes you need lies to stay alive. The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity. If we give that away, we may as well stop fighting, because losing that battle is what loses the war. … Read more
Book Preview It’s amazing what you can use for a ramp, given the right motivation. Someone’s collapsed fence was blocking half the road, jutting up at an angle, and I hit it at about fifty miles an hour. The handlebars shuddered in my hands like the horns of a mechanical bull, and the shocks weren’t … Read more