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Scott Sigler

Author of Infected

63+ Works 5,308 Members 270 Reviews 23 Favorited

About the Author

New York Times best-selling novelist Scott Sigler is the author of ANCESTOR, INFECTED and CONTAGIOUS, hardcover thrillers from Crown Publishing. Before he was published, Scott built a large online following by giving away his self-recorded audiobooks as free, serialized podcasts. He released show more EARTHCORE as the world's first "podcast-only" novel. His loyal fans, who named themselves "Junkies," have downloaded over eight million individual episodes of his stories. Scott has been covered in Time Magazine, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly, The Huffington Post, Business Week and Fangoria. Scott still records his own audiobooks and gives away every story - for free - to his Junkies at www.ScottSigler.com. Michigan native, Scott lives in San Francisco with his wife and dog. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series

Works by Scott Sigler

Infected (2008) 1,537 copies, 92 reviews
Contagious (2008) 735 copies, 28 reviews
Ancestor (2007) 555 copies, 22 reviews
Alive (2015) 469 copies, 31 reviews
Nocturnal: A Novel (2012) 379 copies, 21 reviews
Earthcore (2001) 325 copies, 11 reviews
Pandemic: A Novel (2014) 259 copies, 16 reviews
The Rookie (2009) 177 copies, 8 reviews
Alight (2016) 144 copies, 11 reviews
Alone (2017) 101 copies, 6 reviews
The Starter (2010) 88 copies, 2 reviews
Aliens: Phalanx (2020) 81 copies, 3 reviews
Blood Is Red (2011) 35 copies, 5 reviews
Mount Fitz Roy (2021) 33 copies
The Champion (2014) 30 copies, 3 reviews
Bones Are White (2012) 25 copies, 2 reviews
The Crew (The Crypt #1) 21 copies, 1 review
Title Fight (2012) 18 copies, 1 review
The Detective (2012) 16 copies, 1 review
Predator: Eyes of the Demon (2022) 15 copies
Kissyman and the Gentleman (2019) 12 copies
The Gangster (2021) 8 copies
Champions Presents #1 (1992) 7 copies
Shakedown (2023) 6 copies
Complex God 2 copies
SLAY ($LAY) 1 copy
God Complex 1 copy
The Victim 1 copy

Associated Works

The End Is Nigh (2014) — Contributor — 295 copies, 13 reviews
Games Creatures Play (2014) — Contributor — 210 copies, 9 reviews
Robot Uprisings (2014) — Contributor — 192 copies, 6 reviews
The End Is Now (2014) — Contributor — 158 copies, 7 reviews
The End Has Come (2015) — Contributor — 138 copies, 7 reviews
Unfettered II: New Tales by Masters of Fantasy (2016) — Contributor — 135 copies, 1 review
Unfettered III: New Tales by Masters of Fantasy (2019) — Contributor — 114 copies, 1 review
Wastelands: The New Apocalypse (2019) — Contributor — 91 copies, 3 reviews
Dark Cities (2017) — Contributor — 90 copies
Aliens: Bug Hunt (2017) — Contributor — 86 copies, 1 review
HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! and Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects (2014) — Contributor — 75 copies, 4 reviews
Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird (2023) — Contributor — 55 copies
Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World (2017) — Contributor — 37 copies
V Wars: Blood and Fire: New Stories of the Vampire Wars (2014) — Contributor — 31 copies, 4 reviews
Burn the Ashes (2020) — Contributor — 28 copies
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 47 • April 2014 (2014) — Contributor — 28 copies, 2 reviews
Ignorance Is Strength (2020) — Contributor — 27 copies
Or Else the Light (2020) — Contributor — 23 copies
Voices from the Past (2011) — Contributor — 18 copies, 1 review
MECH: Age of Steel (2017) — Contributor — 16 copies, 1 review
Hardboiled Horror (2017) — Contributor — 15 copies
The Demons of King Solomon (2017) — Contributor — 12 copies
Surviving Tomorrow: A Charity Anthology to Fight COVID-19 (2020) — Contributor — 8 copies, 1 review
The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie (2023) — Contributor — 8 copies
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 111 • August 2019 (2019) — Contributor — 4 copies
The PaulandStormonomicon — Contributor — 2 copies

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"We are the birthday children and we will find a way to survive."

I'm really on the fence about this one. I struggled, in the beginning, to continue reading. The pacing was jarring and frustrating and the answers were very slow in coming.

But the answers are good and interesting. There are similar stories out there but none with quite the same twist as this one. I think it's just enough to get me to read book 2.
 
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Trisha_Thomas | 30 other reviews | Nov 14, 2024 |
This had a very interesting premise. It was just too gross for me. I should have checked better with some of the ratings and previous reviews...I think if I had, I would have skipped over this one.

It's not that the story was bad or that the characters were too bad, I just don't fully enjoy a story if I have to skim the parts where he's digging root things out of his legs....just, gag!
 
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Trisha_Thomas | 91 other reviews | Nov 13, 2024 |
{My thoughts} – I have become a huge fan of dystopian novels. I have read quite a few over the years and to me sometimes it’s like the same story but it’s altered slightly different. I know you know what I mean when I say that. This book had been compared to the Hunger Games {I’ve read}, Gone and the Maze Runner. All those series have wonderful popular ratings, so I thought why not and decided I’d give the book a chance. I usually just pick up a book and start reading it not really caring about what it’s about, but lately I have been in a reading rut, so I wanted to read something that would pull me in and hold my attention. This book successfully did that.

The way in which this book is written makes it entirely unique in terms of other books I have read in the past. I enjoyed that the characters and the readers were both in the same boat. That neither had more information than the other. As I was learning things and turning the pages, the characters were learning the same things while turning corners, kind of thing. I was drawn to it. The description within the pages can be described as brilliant, disturbing, and questionable considering it is a young adult book about twelve year-old children in a sense. However, it is so well written that those things just add to the appeal of the story and the book, and to the characters and their presentation.

I honestly think, that this author did an incredible job writing this book and it would make an interesting film adaptation. I can’t wait to begin book two in this trilogy and find out what is in store for our characters.
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Zapkode | 30 other reviews | Jun 1, 2024 |
{My thoughts} – I am without a doubt a fan of this series. I highly enjoyed the first book as it is a different type of distopian then I would normally read. However, I am glad that I chose to read it. It is highly engaging. It has a nice recap that helps you to remember what took place in the first book. It has a nice little adventure within the pages, it has mild like truly mild romance, it has a fight for leadership, it has the birthday children making new discoveries around many different corners.

I have learned to the the character of Em and to hate her creator Matilda. I feel that way about a lot of the characters verses their creators in this series. I have officially learned to despise Aramovsky. His character is the true definition of a snake – which helps to keep Em in her element. He brings out the best in her since he makes her life difficult every chance he gets, which I find to be rather interesting and entertaining at the same time.

Em struggles a lot within the pages of this book and the first. She is always trying to figure out who she is, who she wants to be and who she is meant to be. She always has this thoughts from her creators father that tells her to handle things in a savage like manner. And then she has opposite thoughts telling those thoughts to go away in some instances that are all her own.

I have come to enjoy the way this series has been written and I look forward to reading the last book in the trilogy very soon.

If you enjoyed books like Divergent and Lord of the Flies I am certain you will enjoy this books.
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