Dog Eat Dog {novel}

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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

This is without doubt David J Rodger’s best to date, by Simon Pyne (Bristol, UK). I’ve read Iron Man and God Seed and you can see a real maturity, a strong clear narrative that allows the post-apocalyptic zombie dystopia to bleed through like a dismembered corpse under a cotton sheet. Some really chilling moments, some great action and a fully-realised and plausible shattered society. I cannot wait to see more novels set in the world of Yellow Dawn…please, Mr Rodger!

My copy of Dog Eat Dog arrived today. I sat down just to flick through it; next time I looked up I was 84 pages in! Utterly gripping, your best work yet.

This is really, really good stuff.  I’d go as far to say it’s the best Sci Fi horror I’ve read in ten years.  I can’t think of anything that beats it in terms of action, the innovative ideas per page quota is off the chain, the characters are deep and real.  Drobna is the best anti-hero in the genre.  A total bad ass, he makes Mad Max look like Stephen Fry.

Really fantastic sci-fi/horror novel. Some genuinely terrifying zombies in it too!  At one point when I got off the subway I had to sit on the horrid wooden seats to continue reading, despite being on my way to work….

Email correspondance about Dog Eat Dog:

>From: XXXXXX@xxxxxxxx.com
>To: clovenfeet@hotmail.com
>Subject: DED
>Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:45:56 +0000
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>David,
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>I’m speechless.
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>I’m at work so don’t have much time to chat, but I’m heading towards the end of DED.  The XXXX infiltration is about to go pear shaped with the activation of Beam Guns.  XXXXX has been introduced and was absolutely terrifying.  H P Lovecraft would be proud of you.
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>Just reached the part where XXXXX has managed to get himself kidnapped and XXXXXXX.  His gamble to get out has resulted in all enemies destroyed but he’s left surrounded by XXXXXX.   The subtle reveal of what is happening in the mind of Zeds is fascinating and brings the universe of Zombies into a new and terrifying realm.
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>Mate, this is really, really good stuff.  I’d go as far to say it’s the best Sci Fi horror I’ve read in ten years.  I can’t think of anything that beats it in terms of action, the innovative ideas per page quota is off the chain, the characters are deep and real.  Drobna is the best anti-hero in the genre.  A total bad ass, he makes Mad Max look like Stephen Fry.
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>The universe you’ve built is solid and full of surprises.  Your RPG background has really put you in good stead for taking the reader into the world, heart beating and sweaty palmed.
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>If this book doesn’t find a wider audience then there is no justice in the world.

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>From: xxxxxx@hotmail.com
>To: clovenfeet@hotmail.com
>Subject: RE: …
>Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:34:41 +0000
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>Hi David,
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>I finished the book.  The last section was amazing, really ramped up and already ramped up ramping.
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>At one point when I got off the subway I had to sit on the horrid wooden seats to continue reading, despite being on my way to work….
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>The ending was extremely satisfying.  The XXX – I’m glad it was XXXXX and you didn’t cop out or fall into silliness.  For a moment I thought it may have been the XXXXXXX  but the “items” where more mysterious and open to interpretation.
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>I was starting to like the XXXXXX once I knew they were aware of the Evil (XXXXX/Entity). I felt they were on side.  Their use of child soldiers was horrid (but totally in keeping with the DED atmosphere of pure desperation and animal fight for survival). Be interesting to see how the XXXXXX war pans out.
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>Great stuff m’man.
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>Floyd.

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> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:57:16 +0100
> Subject: DeD
> From: xxxxxx@xxxxxxx
> To: clovenfeet@hotmail.com
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> Hi David,
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> I am nearing the halfway point (page 239) and I really like the book
> more and more. As you know I read a lot of SF and Fantasy and I would
> say that DeD is definitely in the Top 10 percent of what I read.
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> One thing I noticed is, that UDP, UTOC, MOCID etc. Definitely need
> some more intro / explanation.
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> Also while reading the book I found something you should strengthen in
> Yellow Dawn (lite) is the fact, that not only Zeds do not like rural but that
> plants do not overgrow Dead Cities. Maybe I just do not remember it
> but that was an “Hey cool and damn creepy” kind of moment while
> reading.
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> All the best my friend,
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> Alex

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> From: xxxxxx@xxxxxxx
> To: clovenfeet@hotmail.com
> Subject: Hey
> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:16:33 -0500
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> Hi
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> Getting stuck into ded. [...]
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> As always I immensely enjoy your writing. Some fabulous one liners. Also some really strong straight SCI Fi – the description of the interface, the “follow that cab” moment with magnon, verry sharp and fast . Great action as always. Horror. Lots of space for the reader to fill in. Good fucking stuff man – at page 123.
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> With Edge, I read it almost in one session – well a weekend. – in my last solo abode. [...]
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> I do love the post yellow dawn scenario and how the Bigger Picture is starting to form. Its masterful.

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DESCRIPTION:

Dog Eat Dog { novel } Dog Eat Dog takes place in the near future, after the Earth has been devastated by a viral pathogen unleashed when a corporate cargo hauler crashed into the atmosphere; breaking up as a fireball across the sky, it showered Southern Europe and North Africa with a deadly rain of infected debris. Ten years later, over seventy percent of the human population is dead and only a handful of cities survive intact. So called ‘Living Cities’. The vast majority of human habitation is abandoned to the undying creatures left mutated through a brutal twist in the infection. Greed and corruption are left hovering over this bleak and brutalized domain and a cosmic horror is now free to infiltrate the remote abandoned corners of the Earth. Above this, the orbital colonies spin within artificial gravity wells, impartial observers, unaffected by the shocking events below. Within this mix the lives of two survivors collide: a renegade intelligence agent and a cold-blooded master of violence, shaping events with their virulent hunger for money and desire to carve their name onto this new world. This is the first novel to be set within the world of Yellow Dawn.

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David J. Rodger (born 1970 in Newcastle Upon Tyne) is a British science fiction & fantasy author and game designer best known for his novels set in a near-future world of corporate and political intrigue. So far he has published five novels; four that are set in the same world: God Seed; Dante’s Fool; Iron Man Project and Edge, and one, Dog Eat Dog, set within the post-apocalyptic world of Yellow Dawn.

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