Geeks vs. Zombies by Charlie Higson

Author:Charlie Higson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction - Young Adult
Publisher: Disney Publishing Worldwide

There was a collection of miserable faces around the library table. All except one: James was grinning his face off. Having the time of his life. Behaving like the most annoying little kid, constantly interrupting, asking questions, and mocking the others. They’d given up arguing with him. It was clear he wasn’t going to budge and the angrier they became with him, the more they shouted and the more he enjoyed it. The bigger the reaction, the happier he was.

Chris had been trying to read out a passage from one of his favorite books—Titus Groan, a fantasy novel set in a huge rambling castle called Gormenghast. He had brought a copy of the book to the museum with him. There were loads of books in the museum’s two libraries, but they were all science books. There was everything you could ever want to know about fossils, insects, evolution, geology, volcanoes, dinosaurs, plants, birds, bones, meteorites, crystals…but there weren’t exactly a lot of stories. So whenever scavenger parties went out to look for food or supplies, they also had instructions from Chris to bring back any books they found. Storybooks, novels, fiction.

Over the past year Chris had slowly but steadily been removing those science books that looked the least interesting from the library shelves and replacing them with novels. The kids were very prone to boredom in the museum. There was no TV, no DVD player, no computers or Internet or Xbox. So Chris’s books were very popular—which was partly why Chris had been so angry and upset that so few kids had bothered to turn up for his special event.

Fantasy novels were the most in demand. Since their own world had gone to hell, the kids liked to lose themselves in other worlds and other realities.

James was obviously not a fantasy fan, however. He had butted in every few seconds while Chris had been reading.

“Why has everybody got such stupid names?” he’d sneered. “Prunesquallor? Steerpike? Sepulchrave? What kind of a name is Sepulchrave? Why can’t they have normal names like Mike, or Steve, or Dave? Dave’s a good name. Dave Smith would be a much better name for the book than Titus Groan. And they could call the castle Brian.”

So Chris had abandoned Titus Groan. Now he was trying to find a book that James might approve of.

“Okay,” he said, picking one from the pile. “What about this? My favorite living author. Well…at least he was before the disease.”

“What’s his name?” asked James. “Nerdy Nerdman?”

“No. Anthony Nash.”

“Anthony Nash?” said one of Chris’s assistants, a serious-looking girl called Lettis. “I love Anthony Nash! He wrote this really amazing spy series about a boy who gets a computer implanted in his brain.”

“Yeah,” said Jibber-Jabber. “And he wrote the Demon Spawn series as well. I loved that. About a boy in a foster home who finds out that his father was a demon and his mother was an angel, so he’s half demon and he has to fight his dark side to stop

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