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Monster Nation
AuthorDavid Wellington
LanguageEnglish
SeriesDavid Wellington's Monster trilogy
GenreHorror
PublisherThunder's Mouth Press
Publication date
2005
Publication placeUnited States
Media typee-book & Paperback
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Preceded byMonster Island 
Followed byMonster Planet 

Monster Nation is a serial novel by David Wellington. It concerns the opening days of a strange new epidemic and the end of the world.

The novel was originally serialized online. It is a prequel to Monster Island.

Plot introduction

A woman in California finds herself at an oxygen bar, unable to remember anything except the fact that she was bitten in the shoulder by a dead man. Dick Walters, an employee of the National Institute of Health, is sent to investigate a case of scrapie at a ranch in Colorado, somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. Bannerman Clark, a Captain of the Colorado Army National Guard, is summoned to investigate an alleged riot at ADX Florence. All three witness firsthandedly the nation-wide outbreak of a plague that makes corpses walk and eat the living.

Release details

  • 2005, USA, Brokentype ISBN ?, Pub date ? ? 2005, e-book
  • (Scheduled) 2006, USA, Thunder's Mouth Press ISBN 1560258500, Pub date 28 September 2006, paperback

Sources, references, external links, quotations

About the Trilogy

Monster Nation is the second novel in a trilogy about the zombie apocalypse.

The first novel, Monster Island, takes place in Manhattan one month after New York City has been completely overrun by the undead.

The third novel, Monster Planet, takes place 12 years later, when the world is mostly dominated by the undead.