#SaturdayFun Zombies and more
Vasilis βBillyβ Kostopolos is a Bay Area Rust Belt
refugee,
failed sci-fi writer, successful barfly and, since the
exceptionally American zombie apocalypse, an accomplished
βdrillerβ of reanimated corpses. There arenβt many sane,
well-adjusted human beings left in San Francisco, but
facing
the end of the world, Billyβs found his vocation
trepanning
the undead, peddling his one and only published short
story,
and drinking himself to death.
Things donβt stay static for long. Billy discovers that
both
his girlfriends turn out to be homicidal revolutionaries.
He
collides with a gang of Berkeley scientists gone
berserker.
Finally, the long-awaited βBig Oneβ shakes the foundation
of
San Francisco to its core, and the crumbled remains of
City
Hall can no longer hide the awful secret lurking deep in
the
basement. Can Billy unearth the truth behind Americaβs
demise and San Franciscoβs survivalβand will he destroy
what
littleβs left of it in the process? Is he legend, the
last
man, or just another sucker on the vine?
Nick Mamatas takes a high-powered drill to the lurching,
groaning conventions of zombie dystopias and conspiracy
thrillers, sparing no clichΓ© about tortured artists,
alcoholic βgenius,β noir action heroes, survivalist
dogma,
or starry-eyed California dreaming. Starting in booze-
soaked
but very clear-eyed cynicism and ending in gloriously
uncozy
catastrophe, The Last Weekend is merciless, uncomfortably
perceptive, and bleakly hilarious.
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