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Inoculation Zero #1
Welcome to the Stone Age
Kelly, Randal, Larry, and Stephen don't know each other, they have nothing in common, they don’t know each other. They don’t even live in the same cities, yet they will all come to the same conclusion, life is over as they know it. Nothing has prepared anyone for the unimaginable hell that is about to crash into their lives. How strong is their will to live? Time will tell.
367 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 20, 2017
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May 29, 2025
TWO MEN'S COLD MORBID ATTEMPT AT REVENGE DESTROYS SOCIETY & BRINGS TEOTWAWKI.
☆☆☆☆☆
Inoculation Zero: Welcome to the Stone Age Book 1 of 2 by S.A. Ison is one of those books that will blow your mind with just how easy it would be for a few bad apples to bring the end of the world as we know it killing millions upon millions and taking out all electronics connected to the internet.
As with all the books I have read so far by S.A. Ison, this book is well written, the main characters are brought to life on the pages making it not only easy to follow the action but to the point you'll feel you can relate to them. The bad guys are evil, self-centered pricks that you will find yourself cheering when they are eliminated. Her story is told with just the right action and adventure with the right amount of drama thrown in to bring the characters to life.
This is a great book for those who enjoy suspense, thrillers, action, and just a little bit of romance thrown in to pique your interest to see what will happen next. She writes with a voice that makes her work easy to imagine you are right there in what is going on.
I have truly enjoyed reading this book and currently reading the second book in this series and can easily tell you this series is one you'll enjoy.
☆☆☆☆☆
Inoculation Zero: Welcome to the Stone Age Book 1 of 2 by S.A. Ison is one of those books that will blow your mind with just how easy it would be for a few bad apples to bring the end of the world as we know it killing millions upon millions and taking out all electronics connected to the internet.
As with all the books I have read so far by S.A. Ison, this book is well written, the main characters are brought to life on the pages making it not only easy to follow the action but to the point you'll feel you can relate to them. The bad guys are evil, self-centered pricks that you will find yourself cheering when they are eliminated. Her story is told with just the right action and adventure with the right amount of drama thrown in to bring the characters to life.
This is a great book for those who enjoy suspense, thrillers, action, and just a little bit of romance thrown in to pique your interest to see what will happen next. She writes with a voice that makes her work easy to imagine you are right there in what is going on.
I have truly enjoyed reading this book and currently reading the second book in this series and can easily tell you this series is one you'll enjoy.
May 8, 2022
The writing was generally quite good with not many editing issues. I’m not sure how one guy could engineer such an easily transmissible Ebola virus; not much in the way of security there. It would been nearly impossible to create a computer virus that would get through and destroy every system world-wide as these systems would be very different and each with their own security. If you can accept the improbability that two soulless men could destroy the world this way, the story was a very good one. It unfolds slowly by design and we see the devastation through the eyes of many different groups in different locations. The best of them cooperate to survive and others succumb. Hard to say that I enjoyed such a bleak tale, but it was very good.
September 3, 2020
A word of warning for mankind
Not all books of this type are meant to scare the reader and this one while scary also informs and educates. This was a great read and the author exposed the possibility of evil actions that could cause the downfall of society as we know it. The author also focused on humanities resilience and that people are stronger than what they know.
Not all books of this type are meant to scare the reader and this one while scary also informs and educates. This was a great read and the author exposed the possibility of evil actions that could cause the downfall of society as we know it. The author also focused on humanities resilience and that people are stronger than what they know.
March 3, 2022
Good
It was good. I just prefer a story with one set of characters.. Not jumping from certain characters and places. The pandemic reminded me of the early days of covid 19. I can picture the human race being destroyed like this. I'm glad Larry made it!
It was good. I just prefer a story with one set of characters.. Not jumping from certain characters and places. The pandemic reminded me of the early days of covid 19. I can picture the human race being destroyed like this. I'm glad Larry made it!
May 15, 2022
Enjoyed it
Interesting characters. Fun to read. A feel good book where the good guys always win. Well written. I enjoyed it.
Interesting characters. Fun to read. A feel good book where the good guys always win. Well written. I enjoyed it.
July 12, 2020
One and done
I love a book that is one and done. There is no 25 follow up books. You read this book and it concludes with a where are they now ending. It gives you closure. I also enjoyed the building up to the events. I can’t stand to read a book and I page two everything goes to $hit. It rises up like a wave. You know The Who and why. There were a few errors but it didn’t take away from the story. My only complaint ***spoiler*** is a dog dies. I HATE when that happens and I feel it takes away from a story because it hangs like a black cloud. In my mind I keep going back to that scene. I try to skip over it once I realize where it’s going. Don’t pass this one up.
I love a book that is one and done. There is no 25 follow up books. You read this book and it concludes with a where are they now ending. It gives you closure. I also enjoyed the building up to the events. I can’t stand to read a book and I page two everything goes to $hit. It rises up like a wave. You know The Who and why. There were a few errors but it didn’t take away from the story. My only complaint ***spoiler*** is a dog dies. I HATE when that happens and I feel it takes away from a story because it hangs like a black cloud. In my mind I keep going back to that scene. I try to skip over it once I realize where it’s going. Don’t pass this one up.
September 20, 2019
Gosh, do I have a fever?
This book exhausted me!
Maybe Level 4 just rode it on out...
B.Y.O.B
Bring your own bodybag and settled down for a book reading.
I don't think there's enough hand sanitizer to fix this.
This book exhausted me!
Maybe Level 4 just rode it on out...
B.Y.O.B
Bring your own bodybag and settled down for a book reading.
I don't think there's enough hand sanitizer to fix this.
June 24, 2021
Good book
It's a very interesting read. I don't know what I was expecting coming in, but I did enjoy it. It had elements of survival, and team work. But the one thing I really disliked is all the people the writer tried to get you to care about. The overall gravitas of the story was lost trying to keep track of everyone. So in the end I didn't care who loved and died as long as someone made it.
It's a very interesting read. I don't know what I was expecting coming in, but I did enjoy it. It had elements of survival, and team work. But the one thing I really disliked is all the people the writer tried to get you to care about. The overall gravitas of the story was lost trying to keep track of everyone. So in the end I didn't care who loved and died as long as someone made it.
January 31, 2020
The author seems to be using the technique of Tom Clancy's interwoven stories! It is a bit ironic that we have a "flu" outbreak from China and are waiting to see what develops around the world. I am trying to figure out if this a case of 'the tail wagging the dog' or 'of two tails wagging one dog',
November 20, 2020
Story has a twist compared with most doomsday books.
Found a lot of grammar errors. But a good story. You have no doubt when reading it that it’s heading for a volume 2.
I have bought volume 2.
Found a lot of grammar errors. But a good story. You have no doubt when reading it that it’s heading for a volume 2.
I have bought volume 2.
October 11, 2020
Ebola
This is one of the better books of this kind. Well developed characters and a believable plot. Looking forward to the next one
This is one of the better books of this kind. Well developed characters and a believable plot. Looking forward to the next one
March 26, 2025
Mimi
Excellent story from a great storyteller. Can’t wait to read the next book. Hope it becomes a series. You feel like you know these people.
Excellent story from a great storyteller. Can’t wait to read the next book. Hope it becomes a series. You feel like you know these people.
May 25, 2025
I'm sorry to write that this book is one for the heap. It just plods along, moving from one disparate group to another, all in various US locations, and all, apparently, clueless. Until one or the other reads a purloined book and starts believing he can survive and thrive. It's so unrealistic, it's just silly.
I thought the characters were one-sided and universally dumb. Here and there a crisis is encountered, someone kills a couple of bad guys, and they all seem to settle in place and manage to create their own sanctuary cloisters.
It isn't realistic. From a medical point of view, as a former trauma nurse, I have never seen "antibiotic ointment" prevent infection. It actually seals tissue from life-giving oxygen, so bacteria that are within the tissue go deeper to continue to survive. IV therapy might help, but these folks have bandaids and peroxide. NOT a good combination for first aid, although I will say, probably better than nothing. It fits the bill of "being helpful" in an emergency.
Everyone becomes expert marksmen with automatic weapons and the bad guys tumble like dice from a tilted cup.
Of course, the good guys lose some members to attrition. A virus. Infection. Poison mushrooms. Firefights. Ambushes. There's something for everyone in the crisis of survival.
The characters are one sided, flat and have a strange affect of speech, without natural flow of speech patterns, contractions, conversational pauses and drawn-out emotive discussion. They just don't feel alive. I didn't like any of them, not one. The kids, I give a pass to. Because, kids. But the adults, some already well into their senior years, seem to parse out their speech as if the very words are too effortful to utter. It made for a struggle to keep the flow of the story.
I also thought parsing out different groups and locations was rather silly. If you live in Maine, how can you be aware of or concerned about what might be happening in California?
Especially with total computer silence, when nothing works anymore, who cares what's happening in the Rockies, when you are trying to survive on an outer-banks island off the coast of South Carolina? It just wasn't congruent. It felt strained.
As for the conclusion. What on earth? Everyone just sort of decides to what, be happy? The ending of the world has just taken place and you decide you're going to have BBQ rabbit for dinner and be happy? Unbelievable. Strained. Nonsense.
About the only thing I did agree with is that MRE's are incredibly salty and tasteless. It's food, so you eat. But they are, as a whole, inedible. Shame on the US government (any government, really) to provide such garbage to military members who need on-the-ground nutrition to stay alive and function. Shame.
This two-part series finally stumbled to a sappy and silly ending, and everyone was happy. Until the next snow flew, I guess.
I think I wasted my time to read this silliness.
I do not think this was up to the author's usually high standards of work.
And as an aside, this E-text is riddled with poor grammar, punctuation, spelling and syntax. What happened to the editorial staff? Were they stricken by a mysterious virus?
I thought the characters were one-sided and universally dumb. Here and there a crisis is encountered, someone kills a couple of bad guys, and they all seem to settle in place and manage to create their own sanctuary cloisters.
It isn't realistic. From a medical point of view, as a former trauma nurse, I have never seen "antibiotic ointment" prevent infection. It actually seals tissue from life-giving oxygen, so bacteria that are within the tissue go deeper to continue to survive. IV therapy might help, but these folks have bandaids and peroxide. NOT a good combination for first aid, although I will say, probably better than nothing. It fits the bill of "being helpful" in an emergency.
Everyone becomes expert marksmen with automatic weapons and the bad guys tumble like dice from a tilted cup.
Of course, the good guys lose some members to attrition. A virus. Infection. Poison mushrooms. Firefights. Ambushes. There's something for everyone in the crisis of survival.
The characters are one sided, flat and have a strange affect of speech, without natural flow of speech patterns, contractions, conversational pauses and drawn-out emotive discussion. They just don't feel alive. I didn't like any of them, not one. The kids, I give a pass to. Because, kids. But the adults, some already well into their senior years, seem to parse out their speech as if the very words are too effortful to utter. It made for a struggle to keep the flow of the story.
I also thought parsing out different groups and locations was rather silly. If you live in Maine, how can you be aware of or concerned about what might be happening in California?
Especially with total computer silence, when nothing works anymore, who cares what's happening in the Rockies, when you are trying to survive on an outer-banks island off the coast of South Carolina? It just wasn't congruent. It felt strained.
As for the conclusion. What on earth? Everyone just sort of decides to what, be happy? The ending of the world has just taken place and you decide you're going to have BBQ rabbit for dinner and be happy? Unbelievable. Strained. Nonsense.
About the only thing I did agree with is that MRE's are incredibly salty and tasteless. It's food, so you eat. But they are, as a whole, inedible. Shame on the US government (any government, really) to provide such garbage to military members who need on-the-ground nutrition to stay alive and function. Shame.
This two-part series finally stumbled to a sappy and silly ending, and everyone was happy. Until the next snow flew, I guess.
I think I wasted my time to read this silliness.
I do not think this was up to the author's usually high standards of work.
And as an aside, this E-text is riddled with poor grammar, punctuation, spelling and syntax. What happened to the editorial staff? Were they stricken by a mysterious virus?
May 3, 2020
Edits
The fact that they didn’t officially existed helped a lot, but one never knew.
Kelly knew well she did, so kept herself busy in her craft room, a six by six-foot room that held multiple shelves and stacks of boxes filled with paints, yarns, fabric, and all notions of bric-a-brac for cross-stitching, applique and quilting.
The two were closer than brothers, and would Alisa tolerate him in the middle of their family?
It was one of the few bars that allowed smoking, many having gone by the politically-correct wayside. — really not smoking is politically correct? I thought it was just smart.
The dress she wore didn’t do her body justice, and hide the curvaceous form beneath.
I’ve heard rumors that some killing anyone turning up with the virus.”
Here he was on a ship full of guest, trying to escape the sadness and forget what was happening around them.
The fact that they didn’t officially existed helped a lot, but one never knew.
Kelly knew well she did, so kept herself busy in her craft room, a six by six-foot room that held multiple shelves and stacks of boxes filled with paints, yarns, fabric, and all notions of bric-a-brac for cross-stitching, applique and quilting.
The two were closer than brothers, and would Alisa tolerate him in the middle of their family?
It was one of the few bars that allowed smoking, many having gone by the politically-correct wayside. — really not smoking is politically correct? I thought it was just smart.
The dress she wore didn’t do her body justice, and hide the curvaceous form beneath.
I’ve heard rumors that some killing anyone turning up with the virus.”
Here he was on a ship full of guest, trying to escape the sadness and forget what was happening around them.
January 23, 2020
Because I can't give zero. Just nope.
A near simultaneous engineered Ebola pandemic and cyber attack would be bad news, but the gratuitous killing of kids and dogs and assisted suicides is just lame. George R. R. Martin fanboy much? Plus do some research, planes, ships, subs, and power plants can survive without computers. Everything has a manual backup and people train for that. The vignettes showing how gross people are in spreading a virus also gratuitous. Also, merging flu virus and Ebola virus would make a virus and the antibiotics wouldn't help "with the respiratory part of it". Antibiotics only work on bacteria. Just lame. Time I won't get back.
A near simultaneous engineered Ebola pandemic and cyber attack would be bad news, but the gratuitous killing of kids and dogs and assisted suicides is just lame. George R. R. Martin fanboy much? Plus do some research, planes, ships, subs, and power plants can survive without computers. Everything has a manual backup and people train for that. The vignettes showing how gross people are in spreading a virus also gratuitous. Also, merging flu virus and Ebola virus would make a virus and the antibiotics wouldn't help "with the respiratory part of it". Antibiotics only work on bacteria. Just lame. Time I won't get back.
March 9, 2024
The book predominantly reads like an obituary column, chronicling the demise of characters and the timing of their deaths. It's only in the latter part of the book that a discernible plot begins to unfold. I found the approach to be rather basic and simplistic for the genre. Virtuous characters survive, while antagonists meet their demise by gunfire. Overall, I rated it two stars—it was passable, but just barely.
November 21, 2019
Fun, Exciting, and Strangely Comforting Read
This is a well-written apocalyptic novel, frightening in its portrayal of the ease with which modern technology can be eliminated. Man’s inhumanity to man is realistically displayed. But, the author shows how human beings can endure and survive, with their humanity and ability to love intact. Looking forward to reading Book 2.
This is a well-written apocalyptic novel, frightening in its portrayal of the ease with which modern technology can be eliminated. Man’s inhumanity to man is realistically displayed. But, the author shows how human beings can endure and survive, with their humanity and ability to love intact. Looking forward to reading Book 2.
December 25, 2019
Started this book hoping it would be one I could read to the end.
This book grabbed me and took off. Read this in a day and a half. Great characters and action, but not over the top. Introduces you to characters before events really take off. Kept me interested to the end. Pick up a copy.
This book grabbed me and took off. Read this in a day and a half. Great characters and action, but not over the top. Introduces you to characters before events really take off. Kept me interested to the end. Pick up a copy.
February 28, 2020
Good read.
It was a little slow to start. It is the story of four groups and what they go through to survive first a pandemic then a computer virus that takes down everything. How the different situations are handled are solid.
It was a little slow to start. It is the story of four groups and what they go through to survive first a pandemic then a computer virus that takes down everything. How the different situations are handled are solid.
November 13, 2022
the ending,
The ending was a little disappointing. So much action from one setting to another and then the ending seemed too quickly over. I really enjoy your style of writing. Easy to read
The ending was a little disappointing. So much action from one setting to another and then the ending seemed too quickly over. I really enjoy your style of writing. Easy to read
December 12, 2019
Very good
Very hard to put down. Well written don't know if I would make it that world hope I never have to find out.
Very hard to put down. Well written don't know if I would make it that world hope I never have to find out.
January 27, 2021
Well, despite almost binning it, I pushed on. About half way things start to come together and it sped up. Would I read it again? Maybe not.
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February 3, 20214.25 of 5 Stars
October 31, 2022
Dual Calamity
Enjoyed this book immensely. The character development and the way the book progresses makes you continue reading to finish and crave more.
Enjoyed this book immensely. The character development and the way the book progresses makes you continue reading to finish and crave more.
July 14, 2024
Excellent story. It is well written with good characters and a believable story line. I downloaded book 2 already!
October 13, 2024
worth a read.
I enjoyed this story quite a bit.
I did get lost somewhat trying to keep track of the characters at the beginning but otherwise it’s a good well written story.
I enjoyed this story quite a bit.
I did get lost somewhat trying to keep track of the characters at the beginning but otherwise it’s a good well written story.
November 15, 2024
No Thank-you Please
I did not like this novel at all, no redemption . I read and read then couldn't stand it skipped to the end, Boo!
I did not like this novel at all, no redemption . I read and read then couldn't stand it skipped to the end, Boo!
November 8, 2023
Totally Not what I was expecting
After reading all of the Authors other books I just couldn't get into this one. Read the first chapter six times and wasn't interested in seeing how it developed! I felt betrayed. I fell in love with Ison's other books and characters but this was BORING.
BUT I STUCK WITH IT....AND THE LAST HALF OF THE BOOK FINALLY BEGAN TO MOTOR ALONG INTO INTERESTING CHARACTERS AND SITUATIONS. GONNA READ BOOK TWO NOW.....
After reading all of the Authors other books I just couldn't get into this one. Read the first chapter six times and wasn't interested in seeing how it developed! I felt betrayed. I fell in love with Ison's other books and characters but this was BORING.
BUT I STUCK WITH IT....AND THE LAST HALF OF THE BOOK FINALLY BEGAN TO MOTOR ALONG INTO INTERESTING CHARACTERS AND SITUATIONS. GONNA READ BOOK TWO NOW.....
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