They are the only ones awake for miles around. We zoom in on a country, then a city, then the white rooftop of a stadium, where three young people are sitting on a blanket. Even with all of history inside us, we don’t know, and this is a little scary. The globe is bulging and straining, erupting and blazing with miracles, and we don’t know what shape it will take when it cools. Time is just a filing system for the vastness of our Library, but we linger in the present with the unfinished books, watching them write themselves. We prefer the middle, where things are getting interesting. There is little to learn from the beginning.

The beginning is darkness and fire, microbes and worms-the very first of us, killing by the billions on their way up the ladder.

The New Hunger is a crucial link between Warm Bodies and The Burning World, a glimpse into the past that sets the stage for an astonishing future. Who is he? What is he? With no clues beyond a red tie and the letter “R,” he must unravel the grim mystery of his existence-right after he learns how to think, how to walk, and how to satisfy the monster howling in his belly. Hungry, lost, and scared, sixteen-year-old Nora finds herself her brother’s sole guardian after her parents abandon them in the not-quite-empty ruins of Seattle.Īnd in the darkness of a forest, a dead man opens his eyes. Then came a final blow no one could have expected: all the world’s corpses rising up to make more.īorn into this bleak and bloody landscape, twelve-year-old Julie struggles to hold on to hope as she and her parents drive across the wastelands of America, a nightmarish road trip in search of a new home.

The end of the world didn’t happen overnight.Īfter years of societal breakdowns, wars and quakes and rising tides, humanity was already near the edge. The must-read prequel to the “highly original” ( The Seattle Times) New York Times bestseller Warm Bodies-now a major motion picture-from the author whose genre-defying debut turned the classic horror story on its head. “Refreshingly unique.I love this novella.” - LitStack “In rich, evocative prose, Marion transports his readers back into the postapocalyptic parable he first brought to life-or death-in his brilliant debut Warm Bodies.” - Library Journal (starred review)

The warm bodies series