The 2010 Hugo awards will be given out this weekend at the 2011 World Science Fiction Convention in Reno, Nevada. On the list for best novel is our very own Mira Grant’s Feed. In advance of the award announcement, we are releasing a novella set in the world of Feed that tells the story of the early days of the Rising.

Countdown originally ran as a series of posts on Mira’s website, but we’ve compiled them into a single edition as an ebook. If you want to know more about the coming zombie apocalypse, if you want to know more about Dr. Kellis, Amanda Amberlee herself, and George and Shaun’s older brother, Philip Mason, then check out Countdown. And, if you haven’t had a chance to read Feed, Countdown is a great introduction to the world of 2041…

Find out more at the Orbit Short Fiction site where you can read an excerpt, discuss the story, and find more short fiction from your favorite Orbit authors.

Countdown: A Newsflesh Novella

The year is 2014, the year everything changed. We cured cancer. We cured the common cold. We died.

This is the story of how we rose.

When will you rise?

Countdown is a novella set in the world of Feed. 

Word count: ~ 19,500

Countdown is currently only available in the US. (We’re working on it!)