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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Atria Books (1 July 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1416534423
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1416534426

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annie bainger

Year Zero- stunning😅

Reviewed in Australia on 29 August 2021

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Another
Scorching thriller from Jeff Long... Amazing writer! His tension in The Wall was better but this extended epic is totally riveting too.

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Kristine Walker

I bought this book after reading the previous book mentioned above and was not disappointed.

Reviewed in Canada on 4 March 2018

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The first book I read of Jeff Long was called “The Descent”. I have been hooked ever since. Mr. Long takes the concepts of Christianity and archaeology and combines them in such a twisted way that I can not but down his books. I bought this book after reading the previous book mentioned above and was not disappointed.

Mike Smith

Mind-bendingly fun, beautifully lyrical

Reviewed in the United States on 4 December 2007

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Jeff Long writes smart and crazy books, with mind-contorting plots that no one else would ever think of--and "Year Zero" is no exception.

The book tells the story of the end of most of humanity, the end of the world as we know it, brought about by a religous collector who prys open an early Christian relic which contains a bizarre plague that turns people's skin invisible (and then kills them).

After the plague really hits, the scientists of Los Alamos National Laboratory begin cloning people from bits of bone from the Holy Land, hoping they can then test these people to use as research subjects for people who may or may not have survived the plague when it hit the first time, two-thousand years ago, hoping to find a cure. Most of civilization dies off as they do this, and when one of the cloned Hebrew men claims to be Jesus, causing the last desperate remnants of humanity to gather ominously around the walled borders of Los Alamos, things get tense, and violent, and even crazier.

This is a really enjoyable read, a definite page-turner. Its best part is probably the main male character who basically takes a road trip around the planet, one step ahead of the plague--sleeping in cornfields while hearing the corn grow, camping in the Smithsonian, lolling for days among icebergs while alone in a tiny boat, and seeing all the horrors and hopes of the good and the bad and the unspeakably evil elements that survived.

Is the book perfect? No, not at all, but it will stay with you, and it will keep you entertained. Its ending is a bit too abrupt and unsatisfying, it sometimes tries to juggle more stories than it's really able, and I thought the whole cloned Jesus thing could have been used to better effect--but I loved its New Mexico setting, the distinct character arc of the main male character, and its vivid and epic imagining of life after the apocalypse. It reminded me, with its wildly different elements brought together in such a unique way, of a more literary-minded Philip K. Dick plot.

Jeff Long is definitely one of the best writers writing about this kind of thing, in this kind of paperback-adventure-novel medium. In a perfect world, people would read him than they do Stephen King or Dean Koontz, but in a perfect world, people would also be a lot smarter.

This is a smart book, a fun book, and I recommend it.

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Unmatched talent

Reviewed in the United States on 24 October 2020

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This is the third book I have read in as many months from this author. This man has amazing talent. I like science fiction but less-so that which borders on "fantasy". I have never found someone that can present epic, fantastical tales with such believability and engagement. Not even close. From character development to originality, Jeff Long is an artist. He is the literary combination of Rembrandt and Picasso. I highly recommend this author; you will be engaged and consumed in his novels.

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I find post apocalyptic fiction fascinating.

Reviewed in the United States on 20 May 2008

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In this book a plague erupts from an artifact supposedly from the time of Jesus.

The story centers on a promising anthropologist, Nathan Lane, who falls in with a crooked professor and his promise turns to dust. His only hope in life now is in his daughter. Abandoned in the Himalaya's and left to rot in a Tibetan jail, he miraculously is set free as the prison guards flee the oncoming plague. His only thought is to reunite with his daughter as he flees Asia and heads through the increasingly hostile North American continent.

The other main character is Miranda, a child prodigy of an obscenely wealthy and influential industrialist. She's developed a technique to not only clone people, but also incorporate their memories and knowledge. This is probably the most far-fetched of concepts that needs to be suspended to enjoy the story. In an attempt to find a cure for the plague Miranda clones people from year zero, the time of Jesus.

Nathan and Miranda meet up as his search for his daughter leads him to the fortified facility at Los Alamos where Miranda is working. Nathan begins to work with the clones Miranda has created trying to find clues about the plague as it was in their time.

Long falls short on his characterization of Miranda. Her character seems so devoid of emotional responses that the love story between Nathan and Miranda seems unrealistic. The strong points of the story are when Long is following Nathan's journey. The horrors humanity will visit upon itself are more terrible than anything a plague could do. The side story of religion could have been more poignant. He used it as a plot device, but seemed to give it just a glancing touch.

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John Tilelli MD

Grim apocalyptic thriller

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The end of the world seems to be a common topic for novels these days, and into the fray runs this entry into the genre. The drift is that a great plague has been unleashed on man, inadvertently of course, by a wealthy art collector's obsession for the discovery of an artifact of the historical Jesus. The world is in ruin, there are millions dead in the the calamity that follows it. We follow some of the survivors, a child genius, an archeologist and a few others as they seek to resolve personal issues and discover a cure. We are witness in the tale to a dark, grim portrayal of civilization as it decays around them with the faintest of rays of hope. The characters are compelling even if one can not identify with them. We are not overburdened with the science. Mr. Long, in an afterword says tht it started as a medical thriller, buth then evolved in the writing into an exploration of Religion v. Science in the setting of the apocalypse. He succeeds in its writing. Though not the happiest of books, it leaves us with that glimmer that perhaps we will have our woes, even on a cosmic scale, and that it just may be all right.

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