Books like 'Unidentified Funny Objects 6'
Readers who enjoyed Unidentified Funny Objects 6 by Alex Shvartsman, Jim C. Hines, Paul R. Hardy, Esther M. Friesner, Tina Connolly, Zach Shephard, Jack Campbell, P.J. Sambeaux, Mike Resnick, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Jody Lynn Nye, Alan Dean Foster, Laura Resnick, Bill Ferris, Melissa Mead, Rod M. Santos, Ken Liu, David Vierling, Gini Koch, G.J. Koch, Langley Hyde & Tatiana Ivanova also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Those Left Behind by Mark Tufo
12 ratingsOne fateful decision - that is all it takes to either unravel all the Talbot clan has achieved or fulfill their desire for safety. Many are lost though others return, this is the story of their struggle to survive and in remembrance for those left behind... -
The Perfect Betrayal by Mark Tufo
8 ratingsMike and his squad launch a rescue for Trip, but nefarious forces have aligned against them. He marshals his team together, but will it be enough? Etna Station and everything Mike cares about is on the brink of collapse. All will be lost unless Mike can convince his team to heed the crazed warnings of an old friend... -
Etna Station by Mark Tufo
10 ratingsGetting to Etna Station is all that matters, with the world rapidly collapsing around them, Mike and company make a desperate trek to reach what they believe to be a safe haven. Can they out run the demons that chase them? Will they succumb to Knox and his tyrannical army or Payne, a revenge-bent vampire? New friends will be made along the way while some old ones will fall... -
A Plague Upon Your Family by Mark Tufo
18 ratingsThis story picks up exactly where book one left off. The Talbot family is evacuating their home amidst a zombie apocalypse. Mankind is on the edge of extinction as a new dominant, mindless opponent scours in search of food, which happens to be non-infected humans.In these pages are the journal entries of Michael Talbot, his wife Tracy, their kids Nicole, Justin and Travis... -
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Whistlers by Mark Tufo, John O'Brien
12 ratingsWhat happens when two worlds collide? Jack Walker and Michael Talbot come from two worlds; the same, yet different. They both find themselves transported into an alien one, where things aren’t as they seem. While it appears similar to the ones they come from, there are some terrifying differences... -
Undead Ultra by Camille Picott
6 ratingsUndead: a reanimated corpse with a craving for human flesh.Ultramarathon: any footrace longer than a traditional marathon (26.2 miles).For ultrarunners Kate and Frederico, a typical Saturday morning is spent pounding out a twenty- to thirty-mile “fun run.” It’s during one of their runs that an insidious illness descends upon northern California, turning humans into flesh-shredding zombies... -
Karen's First Day by Joseph Zuko
6 ratingsRaising kids is tough. Keeping them alive as the zombie apocalypse begins is tougher. But that's exactly what stay-at-home mom Karen needs to do: fight fiercely to keep her young daughters safe as her husband Jim battles his way across the city, so they can escape the carnage together... -
The Seaquel by Mo O'Hara
10 ratingsWhen Tom's big brother decides to become an Evil Scientist, his first experiment involves dunking Frankie the goldfish into toxic green gunk. Tom knows that there is only one thing to do: Zap the fish with a battery and bring him back to life! But there's something weird about the new Frankie. He's now a BIG FAT ZOMBIE GOLDFISH with hypnotic powers . . -
Dial D for Deadman by Barry J. Hutchison
10 ratingsThe Space Team Universe just got a whole lot darker. In an alien city torn apart by crooked cops and ruthless criminals, private detective, Dan Deadman, specializes in cases unusual and bizarre... -
Terminal Uprising by Jim C. Hines
12 ratingsIt’s been four months since Marion “Mops” Adamopoulos learned the truth. Four months since she and her team of hygiene and sanitation specialists stole the EMCS Pufferfish and stopped a bioterrorism attack against the Krakau homeworld. Four months since she set out to find proof of what really happened on Earth all those years ago... -
The Lost by Michael John Grist
6 ratings7 billion zombies. 1 little girl.When the zombie apocalypse claims America, only 1 in 10 million survive.Anna is one of them. She's 5 years old. She likes banana milkshakes and Alice in Wonderland. She's alone in a world full of danger that she cannot understand... -
Gods of the Dead by Tracey Ward
8 ratingsTHE WORLD IS A FADED MEMORY The Fever took hold of Portland first. They tried to contain it. They built barriers, brought in experts, promised cures. But the day they flew in bombers and burned Portland to the ground, the rest of the world knew the truth. There was no containing it. Soon panic spreads with the Fever, consuming everyone and everything in its path... -
Jim's First Day by Joseph Zuko
10 ratingsOn a day like any other, Jim Blackmore finds himself at ground zero of the zombie apocalypse. He is forced to run a blood-soaked gauntlet through a city overrun by an insurmountable horde of the dead in a desperate attempt to reach his wife and two small children. As he fights to get home he discovers that the living are just as dangerous as the dead... -
The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross
24 ratingsBob Howard, from The Laundry, secret UK agency against evil forces, narrates boarding yacht of Ellis Billington for Gravedust device that talks with dead. Ellis plans to raise Jennifer Morgue, monster from deep sea, rule world. U.S. Black Chamber sends lethal Ramona Random, in conflict with her bosses. Includes: Pimpf tale - Bob in virtual game; Afterword; Glossary... -
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Clowns Vs. Spiders by Jeff Strand
8 ratingsJaunty the Clown just wants to entertain families with lighthearted slapstick antics, but people think of clowns as terrifying, nightmarish creatures who hide in closets or under beds. When Jaunty, along with his fellow performers Guffaw, Wagon, Reginald The Pleasant Clown, and Bluehead are fired from the circus, they're told that the world just doesn't like clowns anymore... -
Zombie Lake by Javan Bonds
6 ratingsThe world has gone to hell but Mo Collins and his shipmate, Crow, are still alive. Every night hordes of naked, blue, biting zombies flood the now dead Alabama lake town. While on board their replica pirate ship, the Viva Ancora, they fish and watch the monsters roam the night; seeking untainted flesh and leaving a disgusting mess in their wake…just like a horror show... -
The Renegades by Jack Hunt
6 ratingsWhen a deadly virus overruns the small town of Castle Rock, Nevada, a group of misfits must band together to defend their town from Zombies. This is a full standalone novel. Book 2 AFTERMATH and Book 3 FORTRESS are now available... -
The World Is Dead by Kim Paffenroth, Mark Onspaugh
6 ratingsThe end of the world has come and gone. The dead have risen, and they've won. No more rallying of the troops. No miracle cure or weapon. Just lots of dead people walking around. If the living dead won, what would the world be like? This collection of eighteen tales-including entries from David Wellington, Jack Ketchum, and Gary A. Braunbeck-take up the call to answer that question... -
Zero Hour by S.D. Perry
16 ratingsBEFORE THE MANSION.BEFORE THE DISASTER.EVIL IS BORN.Sent to investigate a series of grisly murders in Raccoon City, S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team scrambles into action. On the way to the scene, Bravo's helicopter crashes. Although everyone survives, what they discover next is gruesome: an overturned military transport truck riddled with corpses -- and that's only the beginning of their nightmare... -
Overtime by Charles Stross
16 ratingsIntroduced to readers in the novels The Atrocity Archive and The Jennifer Morgue, the Laundry is a secret British government agency charged with preventing dark interdimensional entities from destroying the human race... -
The Zombie Combat Manual: A Guide to Fighting the Living Dead by Roger Ma
14 ratingsStatistics reveal that during a zombie outbreak, most individuals will have to destroy their undead opponent without the aid of a firearm. To prepare you for the inevitability of hand-to-hand combat with the living dead, The Zombie Combat Manual demonstrates how anyone, from the seasoned fighter to the untrained citizen, can become an effective warrior against the undead... -
Sex and Death in Television Town by Carlton Mellick III
6 ratingsA band of hermaphrodite gunslingers fight for their lives in a desert infested with crispy black demons. Along with a motley collection of survivors (including a sex-crazed female samurai modified to resemble a bipedal stegosaurus) they take refuge in the only safe haven left: Telos . . . a strange town near the end of the world, where the citizens have televisions instead of heads... -
Zombie, Indiana by Scott Kenemore
6 ratingsIn the third book of his Zombie series, Scott Kenemore brings the explosive horror thriller of an undead outbreak in the city of Indianapolis. Zombie, Indiana takes place during the same timeline as the outbreaks in his books Zombie, Ohio and Zombie, Illinois, and has the same punch as the previous two...Categorized as:
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World War Moo by Michael Logan
8 ratingsIt began with a cow that just wouldn't die. Yep. That's right. They're still infected, and now the disease has spread to humans. The epidemic that transformed Britain's bovine population into a blood-thirsty, brain-grazing, zombie horde...err... herd... is threatening to take over the globe.And there's not much time left to stop it. All of Great Britain is infected and brimming with rage... -
Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers by Joe R. Lansdale
6 ratingsSubterranean Press is thrilled to announce the novel-length prequel to the classic story, "Bubba Ho-Tep."Before Bubba Ho-Tep, there was Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers... -
Allison Hewitt Is Trapped by Madeleine Roux
18 ratingsOne woman's story as she blogs - and fights back - the zombie apocalypse"Allison Hewitt and her five colleagues at the Brooks and Peabody Bookstore are trapped together when the zombie outbreak hits. Allison reaches out for help through her blog, writing on her laptop and utilizing the military's emergency wireless network (SNET). It may also be her only chance to reach her mother... -
The Brink by James S. Murray, Darren Wearmouth
10 ratingsThe sequel to the international bestseller (including #1 Sunday Times bestseller) Awakened, by one of the stars of TruTV’s Impractical Jokers and a bestselling science fiction author.Former NYC Mayor Tom Cafferty has been haunted by the horror of a single day. The opening of the brand new Z-train subway line beneath the Hudson River—the supposed shining moment of his tenure... -
Valley Of Death, Zombie Trailer Park by William Bebb
10 ratingsJust a few miles outside of Albuquerque New Mexico there's something horribly wrong in a remote valley. To their eternal regret some people have mistaken the screams echoing in the hills as coyotes singing to the moon. When Josey drives his truck down into the valley he quickly learns the horrifying truth. It's not coyotes howling- it's men or what used to be men... -
Apocalypse Cow by Michael Logan
14 ratingsWhen scientists with warped imaginations accidentally unleash an experimental bioweapon that transforms Britain's animals into sneezing, bloodthirsty zombies with a penchant for pre-dinner sex with their victims, three misfits become the unlikely hope for salvation... -
Jam by Yahtzee Croshaw
18 ratingsWe were prepared for an earthquake. We had a flood plan in place. We could even have dealt with zombies. Probably.But no one expected the end to be quite so . . . sticky . . . or strawberry scented... -
Awakened by James S. Murray, Darren Wearmouth
16 ratingsAfter years of waiting, New York's newest subway line is finally ready -- an express train that connects the city with the burgeoning communities across the Hudson River. The shining jewel of this state-of-the-art line is a breathtaking visitors’ pavilion beneath the river... -
I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas by Adam Roberts
8 ratingsAward nominated SF author Adam Roberts takes on Dickens in this festive zombie gorefest. Marley was dead. To begin with. The legendary Ebenezeer Scrooge sits in his house counting money... -
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
24 ratingsSixteen-year-old Austin Szerba interweaves the story of his Polish legacy with the story of how he and his best friend, Robby, brought about the end of humanity and the rise of an army of unstoppable, six-foot tall praying mantises in small-town Iowa... -
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