History Literature / Newsflesh

* ''[[http://thefeedbook.com Feed]]'' (May 2010) - 2011 HugoAward nominee for Best Novel and optioned for a motion picture.

** The Fox, one of the Brainpan members. On the surface, she acts like a ManicPixieDreamGirl (along with affectionate behavior towards The Monkey), but she shows herself to be very competent in the field when [[spoiler:their hideout is attacked by the CDC]]. Before she met The Monkey (and when her name was Elaine), she showed manic-depressive traits; afterwards, she's arguably just manic.

** Drug assisted. Elaine Oldenburg suffers manic depression, but she summons up a separate personality under the influence.

* AdultFear: The fact that all mammals over 40lbs can amplify means young children are able to amplify, never mind the thought of a parent amplifying in the same room as their children. ''The Dy The Dead Came To Show And Tell'' is basically AdultFear the book.

** The main character in ''Everglades'', choosing the particularly gruesome death by zombie rather than the quick, tidy method of getting shot.

*** and Buffy because (paraphrasing) what else do you call a cute blonde girl who deals with the undead on a day to day basis?

** In the alternate ending for ''Feed'', it's [[spoiler: Georgia Mason]] who commits suicide because [[spoiler: she ''meant it'' when she said she didn't want to live in a world without Shaun.]]

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: George Romero never really expected his movies to be what saved the human race, but once KA was out there, he left his body to science to help search for a cure. There are UrbanLegends about people who mistakenly blamed him for the Kellis-Amberlee mutation that caused the Rising.

*** Shaun from ''Shaun of the Dead''
*** Georgia as a tribute to ''George Romero''

* ThemeNaming: Doubling as {{ShoutOut}}s: George becomes a popular name for babies of both genders because of George Romero's zombie movies being the reason people know how to survive zombie attacks.

*** WordOfGod from the author's {{Twitter}} account [[http://twitter.com/seananmcguire/statuses/13144204022 confirms this]].

*** And even worse. [[spoiler: as of ''Feedback'' the [=CDC=] has decided --for now-- there will ''never'' be a cure for Kelllis-Amberlee. Their reasoning: if they cure it, they rid the world of zombies but bring back cancer and the common cold/influenza. It's been so long since anyone had to treat either, that there are scant few doctors alive and practicing who would know how.]]

*** Those corridors put Mahir in mind of another genre of games, as he mutters about "[[ColossalCave A maze of twisty little]] [[VideoGame/{{Zork}} passages, all alike]].

* RodandReel Repurposed: Irwin Ash North sits in trees with a fishing rod and raw meat to attract zombies.

''[=Newsflesh=]'' is a series of ZombieApocalypse medical political thrillers written by Creator/MiraGrant (aka Seanan [=McGuire=], author of the ''Literature/OctoberDaye'', ''Literature/InCryptid'', ''Literature/VelveteenVs'', ''Literature/{{Indexing}}'' and ''EveryHeartADoorway'' novels[[note]]--the pen name is to help indicate that she's working in a different genre here[[/note]]).

** Audrey, Ash and Ben in ''Feedback'' [[spoiler: but it's fake. Ben is celibate and Ash and Audrey are a couple.]]

[* [HeKnowsTooMuch They Know Too Much]]: Repeatedly over the course of the series due to the vast conspiracy the various bloggers dig into.

* LighterAndSofter: ''How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea'' is about as happy as this series gets. Australia is far more pleasant to live in than the rest of the world [[spoiler: until the mosquitoes eventually hit, anyway]] and the residents have more freedom, despite their "Murderworld" reputation. [[spoiler: Heck, no humans even die in this book! That's a damn miracle in ''Newsflesh''!]] ''Please Do Not Taunt The Octopus'' is also pretty happy by comparison. [[spoiler: Only a few deaths and hopefully Elaine/The Fox has found a new home.]]

** Social Media was vital in the time of the Rising. People posting on {{Facebook}}, {{Twitter}} and Website/YouTube advised people of what to do with the dead once they got up, and also advised people who to stay away from, once they'd been bitten.

*** And even worse. [[spoiler: as of ''Feedback'' the [=CDC=] has decided --for now-- there will ''never'' be a cure for Kelllis-Amberlee, because if they cure it, they rid the world of zombies but bring back cancer and the common cold/influenza and it's been so long that there are scant few doctors alive and practicing who would know how to treat either.]]

In addition, the short story ''Everglades'' was published in the anthology ''Living Dead 2'' in 2010. (The chronological order of events is ''Countdown'', ''San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats'', then ''Everglades'', ''ATPLH'', then ''TDTDCTSAT'', then the novels, followed by ''HGTLHBTS'', then ''PDNTTO'', and ''CTYL''. Ms. Grant won the 2010 John W. Campbell award for best new writer for this series.

* ''Feedback'' (July 2016)

[[HeKnowsTooMuch They Know Too Much]]: Repeatedly over the course of the series due to the vast conspiracy the various bloggers dig into.

** [[Ash and Ben in Feedback]]. They do genuinely love each other, just not in a marital sense, since one is hetero and the other is gay.

** In ''Blackout,'' we find out that the Democratic candidate for President did this after her loss.