★ Bronze Medal — Adult Fiction, Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2024 ★We were promised an AI-powered paradise... until the zambies showed up.Zambies: the reanimated remains of millions of people who brain chipped into the new tech and never came back. AI-controlled. Coordinated. Relentless. And they're just the opening act.Grace and Suede were living the dream — van life millennials with zero responsibilities — when the world ended on a Tuesday. Fleeing a city dissolving into chaos, they fall in with the most improbable survival crew imaginable: boomer Colin, who is all strong opinions and failing senses; Donna, a gen-X mum who will need to be more dangerous than she looks; and Ava, her teetotalling vegan gen-Z daughter, who seems to be the responsible one.If they survive the zambies, drones, humanoid bots and quadrupeds will be waiting for them. It seems some terrifying intelligence is pulling the strings and the survivor humans are no longer required. While their chances of survival aren’t great, their banter is first class.Fast, funny, and genuinely terrifying — Zambies! is the first book in the Next Level: The Robot AI Zambie End Game trilogy (with book three launching in May 2026). Almost makes you wonder why we invented super intelligence in the first place. Sigh.Perfect for fans of Zombieland, iRobot, and Bobby Adair's Slow Burn series.*Part proceeds from every sale donated to find a cure for Rett Syndrome.