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Title: Sooner Dead
Subtitle: Dungeons & Dragons: Gamma World, Book 1
Author: Mel Odom
Narrator: Romy Nordlinger
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-08-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 36 votes
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Epic
Publisher's Summary:
Humanoid buffalo and armadillo bikers in postapocalyptic Oklahoma!
A bio-engineered super-soldier named Hella and her mutant buffalo sidekick, Stampede, clash with armadillo bikers and inter-dimensional mutants across the ragged landscape of Gamma-Oklahoma. This is a fast-paced story of adventure, mixed with liberal doses of humor, in a postapocalyptic science-fantasy world unlike any other.
Members Reviews:
Exactly what I was looking for
This review was originally posted on my blog.
After slogging through Stephen King's 11/22/63 (starts strong, ends weak), I was in the mood for something a little lighter. I wanted crazy mutants, radiated landscapes, and lots of action. Not as guns and ammo as Deathlands, but more like Gamma World in a book, and after some looking around, I was pleasantly surprised to find that there are in fact a couple of Gamma World novels, both published just this year.
So I bought them both and just finished the first one, Sooner Dead by Mel Odom, and it turns out it was exactly what I was looking for.
Now it's been a long time since I cracked open a Gamma World rule book, so I forget what the mythology said about the cause of the apocalypse, but in these books it was a mishap with the Large Hadron Collider. It tore apart the world, and opened ripples, gateways to other worlds and dimensions, bringing all manner of strange creatures into ours.
Having the plot device of rampant inter-dimensional wormholes means that you can introduce basically anything you want into your story, and Mr Odom certainly took advantage of that. This book has human-animal hybrids, cyborgs, nanobot-enhanced humans, alien creatures, and more kinds of psionic abilities than I could count, all set in what 200 years before was known as Oklahoma.
The story follows Hella, a bio-engineered young woman with a mysterious past, and her bisonoid companion, Stampede, as they serve as guides for a group hunting for a lost object in the ruinous wastes of the American southwest. It's a fast-paced adventure chock full of gun fights, raiders, mutant creatures, mystery, loyalty, and betrayal.
I really enjoyed it, and if there's ever a sequel following the same characters, I'd be sure to pick it up.
Overall, I can definitely recommend it, at least if you're the right mood for it. My official rating for Sooner Dead is 7 Megatons.
Not bad. Not great. But not bad
Hella and her mentor/partner, a humanoid bison named Stampede, are hired to guide a professor and his heavily armed crew through the Redblight, a wasteland in what used to be Oklahoma. The dangers of the Redblight are many, including various raiders, mutated creatures and an armadillo biker gang. What the professor is searching for remains a mystery to Hella. The whole contract stinks and the guides are second guessing the wisdom of accepting it.
I'd always liked the idea of TSR'sGamma World, a post-nuclear role-playing game that managed to be silly enough not to be depressing. I was happy to see Wizards of the Coast was not onlyreviving the game, but releasing novels set in that world.
I wasn't so excited to find out that the first Gamma World novel was being written by Mel Odom. My previous experience with Mel (another book based on a game,Hellgate: London: Exodus) wasn't a good one.