Podiobook Review: Dead Mech by Jake Bible
Author: Jake Bible
Where it can be found: Podiobooks, Author site in ebook or dead tree, Author site as audiobook or Amazon
Julia rating: 10… and rated R
Comments: I subscribed to this podcast when I heard about it from Scott Sigler’s podcast – very probably when he was airing stories from the Crypt universe. I mean, all someone really has to say is “zombie” and I’m generally on the bandwagon. But often I drop off that bandwagon… or the author stops podcasting. Not so with Dead Mech. I’m now listening to the “sidequel” called The Americans, which is pretty fun in an extremely violent fashion.
Let me set the scene for Dead Mech. The zombie apocalypes has happened in America. Humanity has coalesced in various pockets of the US, some in huge, walled city-states, others in the wasteland which is outside the city-state walls. Protecting these city-states and maintaining some kind of order in the wasteland are the Mechs. These are huge, mechanical robot-types in which a human operator resides. The human operator basically sits in the cockpit and moves – which makes the Mech move – a la Ripley in Alien. These mechs are fricken huge. They built the walls and the city states, as well as defeated the majority of the zombie menace.
Additionally, there is technology now which fries the brain of any city-state resident as soon as he or she dies, so they don’t become a zombie. However, this tech has to be turned off to operate a mech and facilitate the mech/human interface. So, there’s the rub. What happens if a mech pilot dies before disconnecting from his mech? You get a dead mech.
On top of this very strange state of affairs, something strange is happening in the city-states. The mech pilots have to find out what is going on, and save the rest of humanity before it’s too late.
This book contains zombies, gore, cool tech, old-school tech, cannibalism (hey, a girl’s gotta eat…), and more. It is not for those with weak stomachs.
Read at your own peril.