The bad habit of dying by Daniel P. Carazo

Synopsis:

Several decades into the future, when civilization finally collapses, humanity stops caring about anything but surviving. In a country trying to rise from its ashes, a young and carefree cadet, whose dreams have never flown beyond the walls of his city, stumbles upon what may be the key to returning the human species to its former hegemony… and maybe much more. A difficult decision, a wild escape and a revealing journey that will help him discover a world much more alive than he had ever imagined. An unexpected encounter that will shake the foundations of that new world that has cost so much to build, and that so many will want to preserve at all costs.

“The seas have swallowed the coast, the climate has gone crazy and there are still places where the radiation would kill you if you just stepped on them. But believe me when I tell you that, if the contaminated ones had not emerged, we would be even worse.”

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“The Bad Habit of Dying” is presented as a novel that aims to revolutionize the zombie genre by giving it a good dose of humanity. Far from focusing on the viscera and terror, we are faced with an adult and human work in which, in the midst of escapes and persecutions (there are not few), we are given time to immerse ourselves in the questions raised by debating between survival and death.

Set several decades in the future, “The Bad Habit of Dying” tells what it is like to live in a world that has been dead for a long time. Humanity has long since lost the right to retain hegemony over the planet and its heirs, raised without aspirations and without having known anything other than survival, must face the consequences of the decisions made by past generations. Using elements of classic dystopias, this post-apocalyptic world is postulated as a strong candidate to become our real future… probably removing the zombies (or not… you never know). We find that climate change has disrupted everything, that wars and waves of refugees have shaped new regimes and states and a new way of doing geopolitics, motivated by the fact of sharing the world with a kind of dead. living.

The novel begins in the New Mancha; a new state emerged from the forgotten ashes of ancient Europe. From the point of view of a young army cadet, we will take a revealing journey to discover what is left of the old world as we know it. The road map includes ancient cities such as Albacete, Cuenca and Barcelona, ​​many others recently created and even camps built by clans of renegades from civilization. “The bad habit of dying” invites us to discover little by little this futuristic version of our world, where we will find everything we can become.