Zone One Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead has written an inordinately compelling post-apocalyptic science fiction novel centering around the zombie archetype. In Zone One, he deftly uses the zombie model to create a mediocracy—a populace of dependent thinkers who accept,...

They drag their feet, slouching away from the sun, their palsied, wandering eyes clouded with the blood of rage-busted veins. Desire—the only living thing in them—snarls in the pit of their stomachs, the sole force carrying them forward in their...