Pale Rider

Zombies Versus Dinosaurs

By: James Livingood

Narrated by: Michael C. Gwynne

"I am often left to wonder why a zombie, walking around in the sun, smells better than a pooping dinosaur."

Two worlds collide in this action novelette. Zombies have destroyed civilization. Gasoline fuel is no longer an option, but humanity must find a way to survive. In response to trying to restore our way of life, we engineer franken-monsters. Because of their small brains and massive sizes, these beasts make quick work of farming and clearing land. These large creatures are immune to the zombie virus and perform excellently in loud conditions. They are easy to train. They behave like war horses, prone to help charge in and defend our livelihood.

In honor of the past, and to help build our future, we named these creatures dinosaurs.

©2015 James Livingood (P)2015 James Livingood

Introduction to Janus.

The short story Pale Rider introduces us to Janus, the first Blue Brain or Zombie. At the end of civilization as we know it the remaining human survivors struggle to rebuild. Fuel and vehicles are no more so humans genetically engineer animals to be stronger and larger to help in farming, clearing, and transportation duties. These beasts are called dinosaurs. Plots of land must be cleared of zombies to become farms. Our protagonist Paul is known as The Pale Rider. This is the basis of the introduction to our new world. Three.point.five for the effort.

Fun novella--Jurassic Park meets Walking Dead

Where does Pale Rider rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Pale Riders by James Livingood is a creative novella about zombies first in the world before dinosaurs, where zombies--"blues" rule and work in the world. Zombies meet dinosaurs and help the farming world continue along. Macho dude Pale Rider is the glue that keeps the process together. It's quite a funny and unique story.

If you’ve listened to books by James Livingood before, how does this one compare?

I have not listened to James Livingood or heard Mr. Gwynne's books before, but find both enjoyable and will read them again.

Pretty good

This was a fun short story of a post-Apoc world in which humans have retroengineered dinosaurs from birds (if I heard that correctly) in order to fight "blues," or zombies, as well as plow the land and perform other duties. The backstory was the sketchiest part of the book, and I was hoping for a more dinosaur-centric story. The characters were like Old West pioneers and had that dry wit about them. Worth a listen!

good twist on the same old same old zom plot

quick, good enough that it could have been longer. listened in one gym visit. moved at a good pace
PS almost done with the second book(Janus: Zombies Versus Dinosaurs, Book 2)(so far so good)
(i got a free copy of this book)

Fun read

Fun. A little more detail of the farming land would have been helpful. But an interesting take on zombie and dinosaurs as mounts to ride and protection.