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|title=The Fury: The Director's Cut

|sort=Fury: The Director's Cut, The

|publisher=Faber and Faber

|date=July 2013

|website=http://www.alexandergordonsmith.com/index.html

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|summary=An apocalyptic fiction novel unlike anything I have ever read before, that will appeal to adults every bit as much as to teens.

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I chose The Fury expecting a zombie novel. It isn't what I was expecting at all. The official press release describes the Fury as ''a zombie book without zombies''. This book has several things in common with the zombie genre; a group of survivors, in this case all children struggling to survive against a world that wants to destroy them. Unlike the typical zombie book, those affected by the fury are not the mindless living dead. They are ordinary people who go about ordinary lives with one exception. When they get near one of these children they are gripped by an uncontrollable urge to rip them apart, and everyone on the planet, other than a very small group is affected. Parents murder their children, other children will kill their best friends and total strangers will give up everything to destroy them. After they have killed them, they will go back to their ordinary lives. The world will continue unchanged - at least for now. What makes these children different? Why does the whole world want them dead? Who is infected - and with what?