John Ringo "Black Tide Rising" series

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dfwmtx
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John Ringo "Black Tide Rising" series

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Finished with book 4.

Anyone feel the whole thing is still unresolved? Sure, they can make vaccines, and they liberated the Palin-esque Veep, but anyone else still wondering about things? Like what happened to Steve Smith's brother? What happened to the creator of the zombie virus? Does that guy ever get found and arrested/killed for releasing the zombie plague?

Supposedly there's fan fic out there, even a rumored book of short stories published.
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Re: John Ringo "Black Tide Rising" series

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The universe isn't done, but the arc of the main characters (Steve, Faith, and Sophia) has closed. At least until the Muse demands that Ringo write more :)
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There has just been too much Zombie themed stuff out there and I've gotten burned out on it. It just reminds me Democrats.
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I get the feeling that Ringo did it on purpose in hopes of spawning spin-offs like the Posleen series did.
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He mentioned that there was a story someone else was doing about Lt. Chin? I've wondered if that would be where the one who did the virus would get his. But yeah, somebody needs to tell us what became of the brother and so forth.

I've read a bunch of zombie stuff the past couple of years and I think I like Ringo's zombies the best. Too many zombie writers give us virus zombies that just don't die or even get tired. You can have a virus zombie or an undead zombie, but I don't like a zombie that is both of these at the same time. Ringo has realistic virus zombies that do die when they have no water. And he mentions how helpful winter is in places that have a real winter in cutting down on their numbers.
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