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    The Beatles are the Latest Victims of Zombiemania

    Just How Sexy Will This Corporate Zombie Book Get?

    Neal Stephenson Gets Half A Million Dollars, But Did He Have To Switch Genres To Get It?

    Bloggers Save The World From A Zombie Uprising
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    08/02/09

    In reply to The Beatles are the Latest Victims of Zombiemania
    I am sick of zombies
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    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    08/01/09

    In reply to The Beatles are the Latest Victims of Zombiemania
    I'm just trying to figure out how they would become famous when all that classic zombies have ever been heard saying is a low pitched moan.

    Or the occasion request for brains.

    I can't see that sound becoming popular, even with an 808 drumbeat,
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    Edited by alphanumeric1971 at 08/01/09 6:21 PM alphanumeric1971 was starred alphanumeric1971 was unstarred
    Image of Torley Torley
    08/01/09

    In reply to The Beatles are the Latest Victims of Zombiemania
    Q: What are zombie books printed on?
    A: Undead trees!

    *rimshot*

    Oh, is there a cameo by the Grateful Undead?

    Despite their lack of elegance, zombies are getting great PR; just when I thought vampires continued to bask in strengthened fame, we can't resist these resurrected.

    Now, hybridized with pirates and ninjas!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    08/01/09

    In reply to The Beatles are the Latest Victims of Zombiemania
    What it means is that I'm going to completely ignore anything zombie related and instead go for something more rocket oriented.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    08/01/09

    In reply to The Beatles are the Latest Victims of Zombiemania
    Zombie literature? I'm going with the theory that some publishers feel that, what the hell print is dead, they should just give up and put out intentionally crappy books.
    'Coz it's like ironic an' stuff, get it?
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/01/09

    @Grey_Area: Sadly, that may be beyond their capacity to think. I'm pretty sure they're just hoping to cash in quick. Even the agent who sold this says it's a craze that won't last.
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    Image of Allen_Richards Allen_Richards
    08/01/09

    @Grey_Area: you've got a good point, print is dying, and the horror genre has been called dead for year. if these companies want to survive them publishers have to print what sells, which is why we now have a manga division at Del Rey, a never-ending surplus of teen-oriented vampire series, and now P&P&Z clones....

    As customers, we have to be choosier w/ our dollars. If you don't want to see crappy books, we can't support them. Unfortunately, advertising dollars are spent on writers who are easily mass consumed - no unique voice or insight - McPublishing... As genre fans who read, it's up to us to get the word out about writers and books that are worth a damn. I don't know about you folks, but thought of only being able to read from a Kindle frightens the shit out of me... I like books - their feel, their smell, the krinkly sound of the pages as I turn....
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    08/01/09

    @Allen_Richards: Bibliophiles unit! I love my books. I love collecting them and reading them and looking at them and lending them to friends. I especially love good books. Sometimes I worry that the literary peak of our civilization has already been achieved, and it’s all downhill from here. Stories like this add to that fear.

    As for the Kindle, ever since Orwellgate I've considered it only a matter of time until Amazon starts sending out firemen.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/01/09

    In reply to The Beatles are the Latest Victims of Zombiemania
    ENOUGH.

    Zombies No Mas.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    08/01/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Damn straight. Jeebus, what the hell?
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    Image of Allen_Richards Allen_Richards
    08/01/09

    In reply to The Beatles are the Latest Victims of Zombiemania
    PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES was cute as a one note gag, but this series of knock-offs sound even lamer than the Turkish STAR WARS....

    Seriously, what's next? Encyclopedia Brown Saves the Day....from Zombies?

    The Muppets Take Manhatten....and Send it to Hell?

    The Zombie Kama Sutra? (okay, I actually sorta down for that one...but only if it's a pop-up...)
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    Edited by Allen_Richards at 08/01/09 2:27 PM Allen_Richards was starred Allen_Richards was unstarred
    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/01/09

    @Allen_Richards: With the parts breaking off? Ewww. No thanks.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    08/01/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Well, it does exponentially increase the number of poses possible.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/01/09

    @crashedpc /sarcasm: *backs away slowly* Good crash, nice crash *dials 911*
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    08/01/09

    @Allen_Richards: My bets are on a book chronicling what would have happened in Stranger in a Strange Land if Valentine Michael Smith had been a zombie.
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    Image of Daumier Daumier
    08/01/09

    @Allen_Richards: You can't tell me a Muppet zombie movie wouldn't be amazing. And if you did, I would not believe you.
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    Image of Allen_Richards Allen_Richards
    08/01/09

    @Daumier: You want an idea as to the awesomeness potential? Check this out. While not zombies, and more a Sid & Marty Kroft homage than Muppets, it should give folks an idea for the craziness puppets can achieve (actually, as far as I'm concerned, any excuse to plug this is a good one)
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    Edited by Allen_Richards at 08/01/09 6:38 PM Allen_Richards was starred Allen_Richards was unstarred
    Image of Allen_Richards Allen_Richards
    08/01/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Just picture those parts breaking off as a pop-up... Publishing gold, I say....publishing gold.... ;)
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    Image of youlooklikerain youlooklikerain
    07/28/09

    In reply to Just How Sexy Will This Corporate Zombie Book Get?
    I'm not usually a zombie fan (seriously? ew!), but I liked most of Rachel Caine's Weather Warden books; they were fast-paced and usually fun. Her main characters were pretty realistic and likeable (strengths and believable flaws) - with funny inner dialog. She also did a good job with those "good or bad?" characters. I'd give the new series a chance. Thanks for the heads-up!
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    Image of Aidan_ Aidan_
    07/28/09

    In reply to Just How Sexy Will This Corporate Zombie Book Get?
    Interesting. This seems to harken back to the original West Indies zombie legends. The great fear that zombism was rooted in then was the denial of rest. For the slave even in death there was no escape, they would have to serve their cruel and evil masters.

    On the flipside, for the masters, it was the terror of being subjected to slavery after years of keeping others in bondage.
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    07/28/09

    @Aidan_: Don't bury me...I'm not dead yet!
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    Image of Gann Gann
    07/28/09

    @Aidan_: That'd be just my luck... granted eternal life only to be chained to a cubicle forever.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/28/09

    @Gann: There's a Alan Moore issue of Swamp Thing in the American Gothic arc that ends with a dead guy finding fulfillment selling movie tickets.
    "So here's your box...uh, you get all the free popcorn you want."
    "No thanks, this will be fine."
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    Image of Alasdair5000 Alasdair5000
    07/29/09

    @Grey_Area: I loved that one:) I was quite fond of the two gunslingers in the world's longest undead gunfight too.
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    Image of Starlionblue Starlionblue
    07/14/09

    In reply to Neal Stephenson Gets Half A Million Dollars, But Did He Have To Switch Genres To Get It?
    Interface was really a low point in the man's writing. Yech... The only one worse is "The Big U". Shame on Stephenson for dragging that one out after he became famous.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/14/09

    @Starlionblue: To be fair, he pretty much disowned The Big U for years. I thought it was a hoot and wish I still had my 1st edition. (Stupid Friends)
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    07/15/09

    @Grey_Area: For what I read, he didn't disowned it for years... he still has, but had it republished because people were paying hundreds of dollars for it on e-bay, and he preferred people paying a fair price for a novel that sucks (in his opinion) than people paying obscene prices for the same novel.



    Makes me wonder what happened to your first edition :D
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/15/09

    @Dirk Angry: I lent it to a friend who promptly "lost" it. Arrrgh!
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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    07/14/09

    In reply to Neal Stephenson Gets Half A Million Dollars, But Did He Have To Switch Genres To Get It?
    You would be hard pressed to call Cryptomonicon & the Baroque Cycle "Science Fiction". He switched "genres" a long time ago.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/14/09

    @BullfightsOnAcid: How about "historically sciency fictiony"
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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    07/14/09

    @crashedpc /sarcasm: I hope you're making air quotes with your fingers when you enter quotation marks on your computer or else it doesn't count.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/14/09

    @BullfightsOnAcid: I can make air quotes with my fingers while I type with my spatulate thumbs.
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    07/14/09

    @BullfightsOnAcid: I agree. CRYPTONOMICON was one of the best books I've ever read. But I was hard pressed to find any SF elements in it. Sure, it stimulated my fannish receptors. But that may have been the Perl source code.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    07/15/09

    @crashedpc /sarcasm: Historical fictional thriller? Don't get me wrong, I LOVED that book, but it wasn't REALLY scifi. Everything was completely plausible using pretty much any engineering talent.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    07/15/09

    @Chip Overclock: Yeah, even the end where they smelted the gold out using diesel fuel was totally plausible.
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    Image of Iamthe5thcylon Iamthe5thcylon
    07/14/09

    In reply to Neal Stephenson Gets Half A Million Dollars, But Did He Have To Switch Genres To Get It?
    Whatever it is, I'll read it. Man is genius.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/14/09

    @Iamthe5thcylon: Yeah, what the Cylon said!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/14/09

    In reply to Neal Stephenson Gets Half A Million Dollars, But Did He Have To Switch Genres To Get It?
    Eeehm... well, wasn't there an io9 article a while back mentioning how Anathem was marketed not as sci-fi, but as a thriller/fiction novel?
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    07/14/09

    @crashedpc /sarcasm: Yes, Stephenson hasn't been sold as SF since The Diamond Age. You'll find the entire Baroque Cycle in the mainstream novels category of your local Borders.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/14/09

    @Sproing: I found Snowcrash buried between copies of romance and Grisham novels at the local library back in high school.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    07/14/09

    @Sproing: Not at my local Borders. I know, because I was the one who had to shelve them--SF/Fantasy all the way.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    07/15/09

    @braak: You mean the tiny Sci-section next to the massive alternative medicine back shelves?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/01/09

    In reply to Bloggers Save The World From A Zombie Uprising
    Well, oookaay. But after this, no more zombie books, all right?
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    07/01/09

    @Grey_Area: "Stop trying to make Zombies happen. It's not going to happen Gretchen!"
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