Why I Read It: Hey, it's Mira Grant! I had to read it. Plus someday I'd like to go to Comic Con and the story is set there. 
 This is the most recent novella and like "Countdown" is a prequel. The virus outbreak at Comic Con was the first major public outbreak and the end of large public gatherings. Mahir, one of the characters from the series, interviews the sole survivor from the outbreak. That interview, plus surviving camera footage, allows him to piece together a story that is not only factually true but but provides understanding about what happened. Told partly in flashback and partly as it's happening, we get both the immediate perspective and the deeper, historical perspective. I cared about the characters, and even knowing generally what the outcome was, I held out hope for more survivors. 4 stars 
 Quotes: By day three, the floor would be so jammed with bodies that getting lost wouldn't be nearly as much of a concern as getting crushed, or being swept three rows past your destination by people who were packed together too tightly for you to fight your way free. It hadn't always been that way, but since Hollywood had discovered Comic-Con, the people had come in increasing numbers every year. Tickets had been sold out for months. Only the lucky would be getting through those doors, and the lucky would number in the thousands. "Another day, another battle for survival," Marty muttered. 
 "It's that zombie virus thing that was on the news!" shouted a man in a Starfleet uniform. It was Next Generation command red, but he was running away from the danger, not toward it. Maybe that was how the command crew stayed alive. "They'll eat you if you stay here!" 
 MAHIR: The people inside? What about the Klingons? 
 LORELEI: They stayed in the lobby. It was the only way they could get the doors to close. They even barricaded them, to keep the other infected from breaking through. They must have held out for a while. They managed to lock almost all the doors between the convention center and the street before hey weren't in a position to keep fighting. There's this thing they used to say, about good days to die. I guess that was a good one to die. Because they all died, every last one of them. The worst part is, they thought they were doing the right thing. 
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