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This was such a fun, interesting, and sometimes heart-wrenching read about the gay authors who shaped culture in the US (and beyond) in the second half of the 20th century. Christopher Bram writes with wit and compassion about these sometimes difficult men and their difficult lives, and I think anyone interested in the history of queer literature ought to give this book a read.

I wrote about this on my blog last year: if a novel is queer zombie apocalypse fiction? I'm in. With all the gross out body horror, gore, and an aggressively delightful take on the various anti-queer and anti-trans villains , this book also brought genuine emotion and stakes to relationships that were heartfelt and real.

No idea when I read this, so this is an approximate date. I liked it a lot better than the movie, no big surprise, and remember being stunned at the film's final result. The book believably takes us through different moments of the global zombie war with the framing device of a reporter chronicling an oral history from the survivors as they try to rebuild. It's clever and tense and is worth a read for anyone who likes zombie novels.

See my previous reviews of the earlier books, but this is a stand-out zombie tale with all the bells and whistles you could want published during the glut of less ambitious and less successful zombie fiction in the 2000s and 2010s. Great series overall.

I read this series sometime around 2013-2014, and what I especially like about it is the way each book adds layers to the genre-blending story in surprising ways.

Read the series back to back sometime around 2013-2014 and loved the refreshing takes on media, science, plagues, family, and survival. A fine zombie series all around.

A birthday gift from my ex - I love reading about authors' lives, especially queer ones.

Amazing book, I re-read it several times after my first read and gave a few copies to people I knew, because of the prescient details, but also because of the ways the protagonist finds hope in the worst sorts of circumstances, a message that was (and is) scarily relevant today.

Read this years ago, but don't recall when. Re-reading this year.