If you don’t want to click over to Goodreads, then just read here:
This is the second book in this alternate history series, where a large ocean liner and its refueling tender have both gone back in time to 320 BCE. They arrive in the middle of Alexander the Great’s generals fighting over his empire.
The ship goes from port to port, officially neutral and promoting peace. However, they have aligned themselves with Alexander’s heir Philip and his mother Eurydice.
Naturally, aside from advancing technology to the industrial revolution, the modern ship is smack in the middle of Grecian politics. There are murders and battles, as the iron age civilization modernizes to the steam age within years.
Eric Flint and his co-authors, Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett keep the plot moving and the reader engaged with colorful characters from the 21st century and the 4th BCE.
Andy Zach continues his unrelenting attack on the horror/zombie genre with outlandish humor. What will society do with the new human zombies after the havoc caused by The Turkey Zombies?!? That was a rhetorical question…so just laugh! ;-
Finally, My Top Secret Book Plans, Revealed for You Right Here
My Life After Life Chronicles gets a new volume, Zombie Detective. Here’s a secret blog postgiving you the first page.
I plan to publish Zombie Detectives in May 2021 in both paperback and ebook. If you want to be the first to know, subscribe to my newsletter here. You’ll also get all my free audiobooks.
What’s next in 2021? I plan to make Zombie Detectives an audiobook. That’ll start in June and finish by September.
Also coming along is my audiobook version ofVillain’s Vacation, the second of my Secret Supersseries. The audiobook may not be done, but the cover is:
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First, Don’t Miss Out on the Cover Reveal on July 31st
This blog tour covers all four books in my Life After Life Chronicles.
Your first jolt comes with Zombie Turkeys. Here’ part of the review for Dab of Darkness blog:
What a deliciously silly book! If you love zombies and comedy, this zombiedy story is for you. The whole premise of zombie turkeys is just so ludicrous it makes the whole tale funny, no matter how seriously the characters take their roles. Story is suitable for the whole family. Very little blood & guts, no swearing, sweet, innocent romance.
I really enjoyed the main characters, Sam and Lisa, who work for a small newspaper in Illinois. Sam is out for the real story, thoroughly enjoying his investigative reporting. Lisa runs the little newspaper with efficiency and soon she has the entire nation demanding their news reports. Zombie turkeys are a bad problem, for sure, but they have launched this small newspaper right into the big leagues.
Once again we get to visit the lives of the fantastically droll Sam and Lisa as they adjust to the life after the zombie apocalypse starts settling down. Things aren’t going so well for them as there is only so much you can report on zombie turkeys, cows, squirrels and chickens. But never fear – something interesting is just around the corner for you. At the end of the first book (SPOILER ALERT IF YOU HAVEN’T LISTENED TO IT)
Zombies! But it’s worse than that – there’s zombie turkeys, zombie corgis, zombie chipmunks, and even zombie mother-in-laws! Haha! I’ve really enjoyed this series, though Book 1 has been my favorite. . .
This is a great book to start with if you haven’t tried any Andy Zach book before. It contains stories from both his Life After Life zombie comedy series and his superhero story Super Secrets. It also shows you Zach’s sense of humor (plus there’s one little horror story that isn’t overly gruesome). This book is great for both kids and adults and works just fine on it’s own.
I love when science catches up with science fiction. Here I just wrote Paranormal Privateers in 2018 including mind control through skull implants. Then I read an article heading in the same direction with current technology!
Can anything top this in October 2019? Find out in the next section.
In one blog post, I discussed where I got my ideas for Paranormal Privateers, my third novel. I had to surpass my previous books. I added a surprise twist and I gave two hints. Here’s your first hint:
Your first hint about Paranormal Privateers
Then you got this second hint:
Excerpt from Forbidden Planet
I love these two movies, so, naturally, I included elements of them in my book.
If you haven’t read Paranormal Privateers, let me know your guesses about the plot twist. The best response gets a free ebook of your choice!
Oops! I almost forgot! I got a review for Oops! Here it is:
The First Review of Oops!
Oops! Tales of the Zombie Turkey Apocalypse by Andy Zach is a collection of short stories and as the clue is in the title, the theme is zombies. And boy do they come in a variety of different shapes and sizes.
The book starts with three stories that are a starter and not in the zombie genre. Firstly, you are introduced to a world where nothing is heard. Then we move on to finding an elusive phoenix and trying to use its DNA for breeding. Lastly, we have a story about a time-travelling wheelchair.
Then we jump straight into zombies. From zombie pickles, to zombie service dog corgis, to zombie models and even zombies in a nursing home. There is a timeline thread running through the stories where characters that create something or meet someone bring them into a later story. And all of this in a world where becoming a zombie is as easy as ordering blood online!
After each story, the author explains where he got his ideas from, and since in his bio he claims both his parents were zombies, he must be an expert on all things undead. The author has a very quick mind and some of the quips and plays on words were very clever. In some of the stories, however, I would have preferred a definite ending—one where the story doesn’t just finish and you think there is more coming. It was almost as though they were ideas taken from diary extracts with sporadic glimpses into a world of zombies.
After the zombie stories came tales from some of his other books about teenage superheroes. I think the one I enjoyed the most was of the hamster that one of the kids had experimented on and had developed some superpowers. He taught himself to read and was eventually able to communicate with others by typing on a computer. The author very cleverly integrated himself into that story by being the author in the story and the one that the hamster contacted. And of course, we had to have a story about aliens to end it off.
The editing of the book was very good, and I only caught a couple of minor errors. I enjoyed the writing style of the main author and very often you had to reread something because the clever nuances were so subtle you only got them a few lines later. The different styles of writing by the different authors was a bit offputting as you get into a tempo with one and then get thrown off your rhythm by another.
While I enjoyed the book overall, I would still put it in my average category as I wouldn’t go back and reread it. I would, however, recommend it to anyone looking for a quick read where you can turn your brain off from reality and just jump into a world of crazy.
