To The Last Page

You would think that there’s nothing much more to add to the genre of zombie apocalypse novels and films, but it seems like there is always another spin that you can take on the subject. What has tended to get lost over time however is the original satirical outlook on society as subsequent treatments tend towards either survivalist manuals or horror slaughter-fests. The most significant social realignment in recent times has been the consideration of moving into a post-human society in MR Carey’s The Girl With All The Gifts (and before that of course Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend ), but there have been numerous other works that consider the necessity of adapting, restructuring and basically starting from scratch again in a post-capitalist, post-consumerist society. In one respect Sarah David-Goff’s Last Ones Left Alive appears to be fairly straightforward in its survivalist narrative interspersed with moments of flash-eating horror even though the zombie lore is a little different ...