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Re: Dead End: Reboot!

2014-09-30T01:39:18-05:00

XD You need to read the stories collection!

Spoiler:
He apparently does take it - and in the end he'll go and disappear to a different world.

((Personally I'm rooting for him being Cavendish lol))

Statistics: Posted by Kat — Tue Sep 30, 2014 1:39 am

Re: Dead End: Reboot!

2014-09-29T13:55:01-05:00

I've read this series multiple times and each time through I get more out of the books. Or maybe I am getting senile. Still, I wish Jake had taken the longevity treatments just because the world will always need a Very Good Man who can still drop the hammer. you know, in case they get attacked by hyperaggresive, expansion-minded aliens. Hey, that can be the second series. Jake comes out of quiet retirement to lead the resistance.

Statistics: Posted by willallen — Mon Sep 29, 2014 1:55 pm

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2014-09-29T11:52:52-05:00

The new book will be a great addition to the series! Jake..... my thoughts are floating from one story to the next and just not sure..... brain teaser! Not giving away spoilers by saying more tho.

Statistics: Posted by MarciaA — Mon Sep 29, 2014 11:52 am

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2014-09-16T15:28:58-05:00

It's the nature of the nano process that animates their bodies. They're partially preserved and in the right conditions will last a very long time. They don't heal however, so when they take damage they fall apart.

Part of their flesh rots, but more slowly than it would if it were a regular person. (Because the nano complex in their system partially out competes the natural bacteria that would cause true rotting.)

The bigger question is why can they still move in the deep freeze of winter, when their flesh is clearly hardened?

That has to do with how they actually move, which isn't due to muscular contractions...

But the answer is science magic. Naturally.

Oh, I forgot: Why do they only go after regular living people? Well, clearly they can become confused, but if the nanos interact with another infected person they back off. This can be through air born or regular means. When there are humans around it becomes more confusing for them, so they may attack (say a downed zombie?) which they wouldn't do if there were no tasty people around to add scents to the air.

Statistics: Posted by PS Power — Tue Sep 16, 2014 3:28 pm

Re: Dead End: Reboot!

2014-09-16T11:54:09-05:00

Okay, so I'm reading dead end and...one question I always have is why those Zombies don't kill off each other. And why they don't rot within weeks or at least months exposed to the elements as they are...
Because 1) if they only go after living flesh they'd rot completely or 2) if they still are kind of alive they should be going after each other, too...

Statistics: Posted by Kat — Tue Sep 16, 2014 11:54 am

Re: Dead End: Reboot!

2014-09-16T09:53:25-05:00

Hey! I've only gotten one email about the new stories. It wasn't from Marcia. So if anyone sent one and isn't named Tom, you might want to try again.

I'll try to look into the whole thing and see what's up with that.

Thanks everyone!

Statistics: Posted by PS Power — Tue Sep 16, 2014 9:53 am

Re: Dead End: Reboot!

2014-09-15T19:06:11-05:00

I want matchstick man, even though I cant remember if he makes it.

Statistics: Posted by NickD — Mon Sep 15, 2014 7:06 pm

Re: Dead End: Reboot!

2014-09-15T16:27:47-05:00

sent an email!!!!

Statistics: Posted by MarciaA — Mon Sep 15, 2014 4:27 pm

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2014-09-15T16:16:27-05:00

If you want to read the new material, I could use some Beta readers/editors for the project right now.

It's only about fifty thousand words (plus a little) and in short story form. (That's about half a regular sized novel, more or less. Technically it's a short book length amount of material.)

Yes, there is some stuff from Colleen/Vickie/Cam/Nate/Tipper/Burt perspective. Plus... A new Mickie story. I don't want to give spoilers. Also Alan. Yep. Alan.

So, you all probably know the drill. If you'd like to play, please let me know by sending an email to: power_dale@yahoo.com

Putting something like: Stories from the End of the World in the title bar is good. Just something that will identify you as not sending me an offer for Viagra, or a Russian mail order bride

Thanks! I'll re-post this in it's own thread so that more people will see it.

Statistics: Posted by PS Power — Mon Sep 15, 2014 4:16 pm

Re: Dead End: Reboot!

2014-04-14T09:32:44-05:00

Once I saw this was going to be rereleased, I went back and reread the series yet again. I would love to see the tale of how Matilde won her name, as well more background on Colleen. She is Rachel's sister, I get that, but she just sort of pops up at the police camp and we don't get much of her backstory. Same with Vickie, really. I don't need all the bad stuff she went through, but a little about her life before the ZA would help round things out for me.

Since this is just about my favorite series, I am pretty jazzed to see an update. For me, the ending still seemed somewhat of a downer, since we only get to find out that Jake/Mickey lived happily (?) ever after and that is about it. He goes through four books getting tortured mentally and physically and all we get is a few lines to sum up everything.

Statistics: Posted by willallen — Mon Apr 14, 2014 9:32 am

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2014-04-04T14:03:39-05:00

I guess I'm weird, I only care about Jake's perspective lol. More Jake and I'm down, don't honestly care what others were doing or thinking

Statistics: Posted by Hokonoso — Fri Apr 04, 2014 2:03 pm

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2014-04-04T01:20:09-05:00

Yay!

Statistics: Posted by PS Power — Fri Apr 04, 2014 1:20 am

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2014-04-03T17:40:31-05:00

Dale, this sounds like a great idea to me! Dead End are the books I first read that you authored. And I think that your plans with it sound to be be both justified and seem to further the story. I would buy them. As always, always willing to proofread.
Thanks, Sean

Statistics: Posted by Blacksmith — Thu Apr 03, 2014 5:40 pm

Re: Dead End: Reboot!

2014-03-25T04:54:48-05:00

I would really enjoy reading about what was going on at the house during the times when Jake was gone. The spin off series would be cool as well. I liked what you did at the end but more depth would be great.

Statistics: Posted by twips182 — Tue Mar 25, 2014 4:54 am

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2014-03-24T18:19:19-05:00

Those are some of the people I've been thinking about...

Also a few background people, to show the difference in perspectives.

That hard part is the timing. I'd love to use the same time frame for a few events, to show different perspectives, but I don't want to inter-space them in particular.

Statistics: Posted by PS Power — Mon Mar 24, 2014 6:19 pm