It has been twelve years. Twelve years since Marc and I first put fingers to keyboard and typed the words "Kill Them Dead." We started the original series in 2013 with a book called Genesis — a space-based zombie apocalypse that we genuinely believed was a unique concept at the time. Zombies in space. Yes, freaking space.
The original series ran to five books. We were proud of it. Then life happened. Publishing ventures, app development, other projects, other pressures. The Kill Them Dead universe got parked, and we moved on.
But the world never left us. The characters, the stations, the lore — it kept showing up. In conversation. In ideas. In the occasional "remember when we wrote about…" moment over coffee. So in late 2024, Marc and I sat down and asked each other a question we had been avoiding for years: are we actually done with this?
The answer, it turns out, was no.
The First Event
The new project is called Kill Them Dead: The First Event. It was originally conceived as a prologue to the entire series — a piece that explained where the infection actually came from, how far back it went, and what the true origin of the Kill Them Dead world looked like. We cut it from the original publication because it felt too disconnected from the main story.
Now we think it is exactly the right entry point for a new generation of readers. A standalone story that does not require you to have read anything else, but rewards you deeply if you have.
Where the Universe Goes
Once we started pulling at the thread of The First Event, we realised how much universe was still left unexplored. The original series covered one corner of the Kill Them Dead world — Orion station, the Photon-II, a specific window of time. But the lore goes much deeper.
We have mapped out several directions we want to explore:
- The original timeline continuation — what happens after Book 5
- A post-apocalyptic far-future setting
- A zombie hunter focus — survivors who became something else entirely
- Multiple character perspectives across different locations
- Stories set on other stations — Phoenix and Caitin have their own histories
A Taste: London, 1599
To give you a sense of where The First Event goes, here is a fragment of the prologue we have been working with:
