Purist zombie fans may not like S. G. Browne’s Breathers: A Zombie Lament as it puts a new spin on zombies. Instead of menacing the living and taking over the planet as they do in most other zombie novels and movies, Browne’s zombies are the ones threatened and terrorized by humans.
Called “breathers” in the…
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Even if a zombie infection starts with a single patient, there is still a tremendous possibility that the world could end up in the hands of zombies. If he bites and infects one victim, that would mean a 100% increase. If both of them do the same thing, that is another 100% and it’s four…
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The first book in the As the World Dies Trilogy, The First Days documents the initial outbreak of the zombie plague that upended the world. It relates the story of two very different women forced to struggle together in a crumbling world.
Jenni was a battered wife preparing to leave her abusive husband, Lloyd. One…
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Max Brooks’ first book “The Zombie Survival Guide” focused on a world that was on the verge of a zombie attack, provided useful information and instructions on how to defend yourself, your family, and home from the dreaded flesh-eating monsters. His second book, “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, written three…
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Oasis is a deceptively small and sleepy desert town. There was actually something big going on but is so hush-hush not too many people were on to it. It was literally happening underground with only the top brass of the military and a research group at the Oasis Medical Center knowing about it.
Corbin Saint Laurent,…
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Jane Austen is one of England’s most beloved writer of romantic fiction. Her works, written in the late 18th Century, continue to arouse interest among modern readers and have inspired other books as well, including pastiche and parodies.
Today, Jane Austen lives. Not as a zombie, but through books she has inspired. Indeed, one of…
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A short introduction of the story explains that several notes and illustrations written in the form of a journal are found in a remote cabin in the town of Churchill, Manitoba more than a year after the final entry. The notes belong to Dr. Robert Twombly, a hematology and oncology specialist in Seattle, Washington. An…
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Plenty of zombie stories found in books and video games dwell on how humans deal with the threat posed by the dead that have recently risen from their graves not to haunt but to hunt them for food. With the number of zombies continually increasing as their victims become like them, the stories focus on…
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In spite of the almost universal acceptance by the scientific community of the concept of Evolution, certain sectors continue to denounce it as ultimately anti-God. The debate continues, but in the meantime, there is this group of creatures that have evolved since they were introduced to the public consciousness by George A. Romero.
Zombies became…
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Zen is a philosophy of Mahayana Buddhism that emphasizes the role of self-contemplation, meditation, and intuition in the attainment of true enlightenment. It relies less on theoretical knowledge, depending more on experiential wisdom. Zen, therefore, is a way of life.
When Scott Kenemore talks about the Zen of zombies, he is proposing to study…
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