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Solve this puzzle for a secret look at Mira Grant’s BLACKOUT

Posted on DateWednesday, April 25, 2012 at 12:01PM

Yesterday, io9 published an excerpt of Mira Grant's Blackout, the final book in her Newsflesh trilogy. Today, an intrepid Newsie hacked into the CDC computer system and liberated another file. For this one, though, you'll have to do a little digging...

Below is a puzzle whose answer reveals one of the five codes you'll need to access the second, top-secret document.

Rumor has it that you should be hanging around these other blogs to gather the other four:

Rose-Owls and Pumpkin Girls (The Journal of Seanan McGuire)

The Mary Sue

SF Signal

Fantasy Café

Once you've gathered all five codes, you can access the encrypted document at the Orbit Books site. WARNING: Massive spoilers for Feed and Deadline ahead!

Blackout will be available May 22nd.

Let us know where you would hole up during a zombie apocalypse in the comments below, and you will be entered to win the Newsflesh triology (Feed, Deadline, Blackout)! Open to participants in the US, Canada, and the UK. Winner will be randomly selected on May 2nd!

 

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I would make my stand on a houseboat in the middle of a local lake that has a very muddy bottom. The temperate rainforest environment freezes the lake very infrequently during winter, and copious amounts of rainfall each year could provide ample drinking water. Slight downside would be that it is smack dab in the middle of a residential area with large cemetery nearby. But there is also a police depot and grocery store nearby as well.
April 26, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterColin B
build myself a small light dirigible and get off the ground. It is much easily to see why you have your supply and a small plot of land to farm on. Plus I'm usually staying near the local public library to help me to survive.
April 26, 2012 | Unregistered Commenterfrancis sullivan
My friend has a cabin in Maine that's remote enough and easily defended, large enough to fit a good sized crew and supplies, we've planned it out for years juuuuust in case :)
April 27, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterTricia
costco for the short term, in the long term I'm going zombieroo hunting, who's in?
April 27, 2012 | Unregistered Commenterantoin
I would lock myself into my local bookstore with cafe and read and snack til i die. :)
April 27, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterIzzy
Probably go with the small resort island somewhere warm approach.
April 27, 2012 | Unregistered Commenterevieg
If it'd happen on a weekend, I'd run for the elementary school not far from here.
April 28, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterJesse Lee
I'd try to make it to one of the Hawai'ian islands. Kauai, perhaps.
April 29, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterJoey
I will be hiding out at my family's cottage in [redacted]. Supplies, in a rural area, and heavily fortified.
April 29, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterEmily
I'd just go to work as usual. Plenty of zombies there and they're mostly harmless.
April 29, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterMark
The wilds of California call, I think. Good farmland. Just add solid barriers, some guns, and strong screening on whatever survivors come our way.
May 1, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterNick
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