Zombie Syndrome A Space Horror Novel Keith Adam Luethke 9781453677896 Books
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Zoe, a gifted telepath aboard the Odyssey space vessel is awakened to the sounds of screaming. The crew has succumbed to the deadly alien parasite which they picked up on a remote desert planet. Barely surviving the ordeal, Zoe utilizes the freezing chambers in the cryogenics laboratory and sends out a telepath distress call to anyone nearby. Light years away, Ida, a failed telepath aboard the salvage ship Argo hears the call and alerts her captain. Fearless, Captain Titus heads for the ship, promising his crew excessive credits for the missing vessel. But as they board the Odyssey they failed to realize it had been taken over by an alien species using humans as a host. Prepare for deep space horror, thrilling adventure, a malfunctioning Salvation robot, plasma sabers, and spider parasites capable of turning humans into flesh hungry zombies.
Zombie Syndrome A Space Horror Novel Keith Adam Luethke 9781453677896 Books
Twelve-year-old Zoe is awakened from her sleep to screaming in the night. When she is not able to get her roomie Clara to wake up, help, and accompany her, Zoe makes her way to Doctor Kate, who is the ship's medical android, and together these two journey down to medical research level of the spaceship "Odyssey". When they arrive they find that all Hell is breaking loose. There is blood, bodies, and general mayhem happening, and then they see a techie being murdered by some strange kind of spideresque monster. A monster that cracks people's heads open, eat their brains, and then takes control of the dead body that is then used to kill, and kill again, in an effort to propagate more of the hungry and alien possessed walking dead.Whew! And this is all just in the novel's Prologue. "Zombie Syndrome: A Space Horror Novel" by Keith Adam Luethke then jumps to the salvage ship "Argo" as the failed esper, the twenty-three-year-old Ida gets a message from the telepathically gifted Zoe crying for help. Ida manages to convince the Captain, after more evidence is found, to go on a deep-space salvage run to find the "Odyssey".
They, of course, find it, board it, and find death, destruction, and all-around general disorder. Then the hungry dead show up, there's chaos, and death as the boarding party is arbitrarily picked off one-by-one.
If you have found yourself owning a copy of this book, you should know that there is absolutely nothing original here. "Alien" and "Star Wars" are directly referenced by Luethke in the text, in fact, Zoe is clearly a knock-off of Newt from "Alien", right down to carrying around her own security blanket, and the plot of this novel is lifted directly from the movie "Virus". Now, there is nothing inherently wrong with this. Plenty of good to great stories have been built on the bones of previous stories. "Aliens" owes a great deal of debt to A. E. van Vogt's `Black Destroyer' for instance, it's all in how you do it, and Luethke does it badly. If this were a direct-to-DVD movie, for those who know "B" horror movie cinema, it would range somewhere between a "York" movie and an "Asylum" flick. The trouble is that Luethke just can't seem to get out of his own way as tells his story.
The main problem is that English seems to Luethke's third language, not his first, not his second, but his THIRD, and he simply isn't very fluent in it. God knows, he seems to be trying, but, dammit, he just keeps spinning his wheels and going nowhere. He seems to lack any kind of viable skill in using past, present, and future tenses; the use of prepositions; the difference between verbs and nouns, and any clarity in storytelling. The Golden Rule of bad storytelling is to constantly mix up there/their/they're, and honestly, I don't think that Luethke EVER got it right, and that's just the beginning.
Here are a few other examples: "There was a sudden low weep on the Comm. Link as Phoebe sobbed behind her helmet. (p 55)", "She gripped onto Phoebe tighter. . . (p 56)" and "I just waned to go back to Earth." (p 87). These were just picked out at random, there are typos galore on almost every page to the point that my eyes and my brain began to ache. At first I thought that I was being punked, but no, Luethke is being totally serious, and what's sad is that he seems to be able to tell a decent story, because, despite it all, I kept reading. But this is clearly a teachable moment in that we have a textbook example of why authors, especially neophyte ones, shouldn't put all their faith in their Spellchecker. Nothing beats a serious proofreading of an author's manuscript BY THE AUTHOR. Most of these were just elementary mistakes that are only made by a sloppy and lazy author.
The second main problem is that virtually every character is a cliché. Rhonda (Aro's navigator) is your typical fat person, constantly scarfing down anything that's not nailed down; the Captain is a drunken looser; the (non-android) doctor is a coward; the broken-down mercenary is your typical overly-macho, emotionally retarded, sphincter with-a-heart-of-gold; we've already mentioned Zoe, and, well, you get the point. Now, again, there's nothing wrong with this, IF the author manages to make their characters rise above their base origins, but lets face it, Luethke doesn't.
The third is the annoying use of product placements. Eating Twinkies and drinking a Pepsi, amongst others. Really?
Luethke has gotten his share of flack for his stubbornly held ineptitude in the use of the English language, and he has got to learn to listen to some of his critics, or he will never get past being the epitome of why self-published authors are not taken seriously. This fan-fiction novel gets two stars because Luethke clearly has some storytelling skills, witness the quote that opens this review, which is why he doesn't get a one star rating, but, like I have previously said, his stubborn refusal to get out of his authorial way just can't get his novel out of the cellar of the self-published fan-fiction genre.
If you're interested in this novel, then you might want to check out the short story "Raiders of the Solar Frontier" by A. Bertram Chandler that was published in the December 1950 issue of the pulp magazine Out Of This World Adventures #2 (December 1950) in which creatures like the ones that Luethke are featured.
Other sf horror books that are reviewed by me on this site, the better books are hyperlinked:
Aliens #10: Original Sin by Michael Jan Friedman.
Aliens #11: Aliens: DNA War (Aliens (Dark Horse)) by Diane Carey.
Aliens #12: Aliens: Cauldron by Diane Carey.
Aliens #13: Aliens: Steel Egg (Aliens (Dark Horse)) by John Shirley.
Aliens #14: Aliens: Criminal Enterprise (Aliens (Dark Horse)) by S. D. Perry.
Aliens #15: Aliens: No Exit (Aliens (Dark Horse)) by B. K. Evenson.
Dead Science: A Zombie Anthology edited by A. P. Fuchs.
Kinberra Down by Eric S. Brown & Jessy Marie Roberts.
Last Stand In A Dead Land by Eric S. Brown.
Mutant Chronicles by Matt Forbeck.
Out Of This World Adventures #2 (December 1950) edited by Donald A. Wollheim.
Star Wars: Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber.
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Zombie Syndrome A Space Horror Novel Keith Adam Luethke 9781453677896 Books Reviews
This story has an interesting premise that it obviously stole from the Dead Space video games, but the massive numbers of grammatical and spelling errors make it nearly unreadable. When I saw "conscious" used where the word should obviously have been "conscience" for the third time I had to stop. Add to that egregious example the misuse of close but wrong word choices on pretty much every page and it was just too much to wade through.
There are a lot of spelling and gramitical mistakes in the story. They must have saved money by skipping the whole editing bit. There were enough that it detracted from the story. It's not a bad story, it's not good either.
It was a pretty good read, not the best read but worth every cent spent on the book. The ending was not what I was hopeing for but could not have ended any other way.
Zombie Syndrome A Space Horror Novel is little more than 'Alien' regurgitated with zombies. The only difference is that 'Alien' is entertaining. I like zombies and I like space, but this was just lame, lame, lame. I have permanently filed it under the catagory of "Time I'll Never Get Back" in my . Save a buck, and buy a candy bar instead.
Although rife with grammatical errors, Zombie Syndrome still manages to pull a good read. Taking an interesting stance on the classic zombies that we all know and love, Mr. Luethke pulls together one fairly satisfying novel for readers to enjoy. I recommend this to zombie enthusiasts such as myself and to those just looking for a quick yarn to entertain themselves for a tad. However, if you happen to be a stickler for grammar and spelling you might want to turn away, or just turn a blind eye and enjoy the novel regardless. Defiantly looking forward to the sequel that the author claims is forthcoming.
I saw that alot of reviews compared this to Alien but with zombies. I fail to see how that`s a bad thing. I thought this was a really fun story. You have telepaths, zombie parasites, and you are in space. It had a lot of action and likeable characters. I really enjoyed it.
A very great deal of this story is borrowed from the genre. IMHO just a tad too much which is a shame after reading the authors Zombie Apocalypse novellas which were a refreshing new look at Zombie stories (Especially the first). Reading the story I just could not escape the feeling that I knew exactly what was coming next, not because the next logical step was apparent but because I had seen these characters in this situation more or less several times before in other books/movies.
If you can look past that however (As I eventually did). The book certainly is entertaining. I would have liked a few twists here or there to add uniqueness but I would still recommend it to anyone looking for a sic-fi/Zombie story.
Twelve-year-old Zoe is awakened from her sleep to screaming in the night. When she is not able to get her roomie Clara to wake up, help, and accompany her, Zoe makes her way to Doctor Kate, who is the ship's medical android, and together these two journey down to medical research level of the spaceship "Odyssey". When they arrive they find that all Hell is breaking loose. There is blood, bodies, and general mayhem happening, and then they see a techie being murdered by some strange kind of spideresque monster. A monster that cracks people's heads open, eat their brains, and then takes control of the dead body that is then used to kill, and kill again, in an effort to propagate more of the hungry and alien possessed walking dead.
Whew! And this is all just in the novel's Prologue. "Zombie Syndrome A Space Horror Novel" by Keith Adam Luethke then jumps to the salvage ship "Argo" as the failed esper, the twenty-three-year-old Ida gets a message from the telepathically gifted Zoe crying for help. Ida manages to convince the Captain, after more evidence is found, to go on a deep-space salvage run to find the "Odyssey".
They, of course, find it, board it, and find death, destruction, and all-around general disorder. Then the hungry dead show up, there's chaos, and death as the boarding party is arbitrarily picked off one-by-one.
If you have found yourself owning a copy of this book, you should know that there is absolutely nothing original here. "Alien" and "Star Wars" are directly referenced by Luethke in the text, in fact, Zoe is clearly a knock-off of Newt from "Alien", right down to carrying around her own security blanket, and the plot of this novel is lifted directly from the movie "Virus". Now, there is nothing inherently wrong with this. Plenty of good to great stories have been built on the bones of previous stories. "Aliens" owes a great deal of debt to A. E. van Vogt's `Black Destroyer' for instance, it's all in how you do it, and Luethke does it badly. If this were a direct-to-DVD movie, for those who know "B" horror movie cinema, it would range somewhere between a "York" movie and an "Asylum" flick. The trouble is that Luethke just can't seem to get out of his own way as tells his story.
The main problem is that English seems to Luethke's third language, not his first, not his second, but his THIRD, and he simply isn't very fluent in it. God knows, he seems to be trying, but, dammit, he just keeps spinning his wheels and going nowhere. He seems to lack any kind of viable skill in using past, present, and future tenses; the use of prepositions; the difference between verbs and nouns, and any clarity in storytelling. The Golden Rule of bad storytelling is to constantly mix up there/their/they're, and honestly, I don't think that Luethke EVER got it right, and that's just the beginning.
Here are a few other examples "There was a sudden low weep on the Comm. Link as Phoebe sobbed behind her helmet. (p 55)", "She gripped onto Phoebe tighter. . . (p 56)" and "I just waned to go back to Earth." (p 87). These were just picked out at random, there are typos galore on almost every page to the point that my eyes and my brain began to ache. At first I thought that I was being punked, but no, Luethke is being totally serious, and what's sad is that he seems to be able to tell a decent story, because, despite it all, I kept reading. But this is clearly a teachable moment in that we have a textbook example of why authors, especially neophyte ones, shouldn't put all their faith in their Spellchecker. Nothing beats a serious proofreading of an author's manuscript BY THE AUTHOR. Most of these were just elementary mistakes that are only made by a sloppy and lazy author.
The second main problem is that virtually every character is a cliché. Rhonda (Aro's navigator) is your typical fat person, constantly scarfing down anything that's not nailed down; the Captain is a drunken looser; the (non-android) doctor is a coward; the broken-down mercenary is your typical overly-macho, emotionally retarded, sphincter with-a-heart-of-gold; we've already mentioned Zoe, and, well, you get the point. Now, again, there's nothing wrong with this, IF the author manages to make their characters rise above their base origins, but lets face it, Luethke doesn't.
The third is the annoying use of product placements. Eating Twinkies and drinking a Pepsi, amongst others. Really?
Luethke has gotten his share of flack for his stubbornly held ineptitude in the use of the English language, and he has got to learn to listen to some of his critics, or he will never get past being the epitome of why self-published authors are not taken seriously. This fan-fiction novel gets two stars because Luethke clearly has some storytelling skills, witness the quote that opens this review, which is why he doesn't get a one star rating, but, like I have previously said, his stubborn refusal to get out of his authorial way just can't get his novel out of the cellar of the self-published fan-fiction genre.
If you're interested in this novel, then you might want to check out the short story "Raiders of the Solar Frontier" by A. Bertram Chandler that was published in the December 1950 issue of the pulp magazine Out Of This World Adventures #2 (December 1950) in which creatures like the ones that Luethke are featured.
Other sf horror books that are reviewed by me on this site, the better books are hyperlinked
Aliens #10 Original Sin by Michael Jan Friedman.
Aliens #11 Aliens DNA War (Aliens (Dark Horse)) by Diane Carey.
Aliens #12 Aliens Cauldron by Diane Carey.
Aliens #13 Aliens Steel Egg (Aliens (Dark Horse)) by John Shirley.
Aliens #14 Aliens Criminal Enterprise (Aliens (Dark Horse)) by S. D. Perry.
Aliens #15 Aliens No Exit (Aliens (Dark Horse)) by B. K. Evenson.
Dead Science A Zombie Anthology edited by A. P. Fuchs.
Kinberra Down by Eric S. Brown & Jessy Marie Roberts.
Last Stand In A Dead Land by Eric S. Brown.
Mutant Chronicles by Matt Forbeck.
Out Of This World Adventures #2 (December 1950) edited by Donald A. Wollheim.
Star Wars Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber.
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