Elder Tull is a Puke, one of the few left unconverted. Without a stem, he has been discarded by society. Mankind has been altered; the stem has transformed the planet. Those modified now feast directly on electricity, with no more need for food. A cybernetic device has replaced their stomachs, leaving only a power socket above the skin. The world's food economy has collapsed. What food is left is fought over by the remaining Pukes. But mainstream, Stem society, freed from the shackles of basic sustenance, has risen to great, new heights: everyone is healthy, everyone is beautiful, everyone is thin. There's no more sickness, no more hunger. The stem regulates everything. Until the day it all comes crashing down. Stem: A Zombpunk Novel reinterprets the classic zombie genre with a postmodernist edge, drawing inspiration from our media obsessed, instant gratification culture, and those that find themselves living outside of it. Zombpunk fuses the ethos of cyberpunk (high tech, low life) with survival horror. Here the ranks of the walking dead are filled with the beautiful, fit and haute couture'd. The disheveled, forgotten and despised are left to battle against the zombie menace. When the world finally runs out of food, will the living envy the (un)dead?