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bililoquy
07/30/09

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I am so tired of this cheap, wretchedly written book. It might have made a good tweet. At best.
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Anekanta - Go Play!
07/30/09

In reply to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Gets Graphic
You know, I've yet to read any Jane Austen... this could be my way in :)

I also love how everything is better with Zombies. Pride and prejudice, and Zombies. Mila Jovovich, and Zombies. Shopping Malls, and Zombies. Two scoops of double fudge mint ice cream in a waffle cone, and Zombies!...
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GreyHammer
07/30/09

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honestly this sounds like the worst thing ever. and i fucking love zombies. its a cash in type deal. where is my WWZ movie?!
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Dash_Stryker
07/30/09

@GreyHammer:Seconded, novellty is the reason John T's from the mall is out business. This stuff is all novellty no substance.
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Grey_Area
07/30/09

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Just stop it stop it stop it stop it please stop it stop it stop it stop it already stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it just stop it stop it stop it stop it stop why won't somebody it stop it just stop it stop it stop it please stop it stop it please.
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alphanumeric1971
07/30/09

@Grey_Area: No.
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Grey_Area
07/30/09

@alphanumeric1971:[sobbing incessantly]
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alphanumeric1971
07/30/09

@Grey_Area: [/gleefully rubs hands]
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cletar
07/14/09

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Yes, of course, 9/11. That's how we got "Omega Man," as a matter of fact. Terrorists traveled back in time and scared the crap out of Charlton Heston.
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Ghede
07/14/09

@cletar: It's the sudden resurgence of zombie fiction they are referring to, not any previous incarnation of the zombie craze.
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phoenix
07/14/09

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Ugh - does this mean that all we need is another catastrophic event to get us off this Zombie kick?

Bleh. I'm so conflicted now. Okay, not really, but man I'm so tired of zombies.
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FrankenPC
07/15/09

@phoenix: Zombies and Vampires. Let's move onto the next fad. But we keep True Blood...I like that one :D
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iCurmudgeon
07/14/09

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Hmmm.... guess it's time to dust off my old manuscript of "Dawn of the Dead Plus More Zombies" and send it off to Tor.
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WLDaywalker
07/14/09

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Just read an article about a military robot called the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) that can fuel itself "by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find -- grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies."

Final solution to the zombie problem?
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cletar
07/14/09

@WindowlickinDaywalker: Yes, robots that acquire a taste for human corpses. Nothing can go wrong there, no sir.
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Hamslicer
07/15/09

@WindowlickinDaywalker: Until it runs out of "dead" tissue... RUN!
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WLDaywalker
07/15/09

@Hamslicer: Methinks the researchers are hoping we can outrun the miniature chainsaw on the robots' grasping arm until they get bored and go back to cutting/eating the grass. Better dust off your cross-trainers.
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SinisterBill prints in color on both sides
07/14/09

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I see the Zombie craze more as a result of environmental fears than terrorists. At least I thought WWZ seemed to come more from that angle.

***Edited to say I'm displeased with the new comment system.***
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redpiller
07/14/09

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In my bookstore, Zombie Survival Guide sells more often than any other book, except for maybe Fear and Loathing in LV. And I do not operate in the States either.

The 9/11 thing seems like a tenuous connection to make, since as comatoes points out they've been around and in pop culture for quite some time. I like to think that Shaun of the Dead is responsible for it all.
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alchemisto
07/14/09

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If you look at a number of scary/horror/action movies in the 90's, (at least from my memory) you tended to see a lot more movies about individuals in terror: aliens, predator, silence of the lambs, even terminator & true lies only seemed distantly concerned with Armageddon (more focused on immediate survival). The exception was 12 monkeys, which focused on end of the world through a prism of sanity & personal fate.

Since 9/11, the Apocalypse has come back in a big way. The fear of bioterrorism naturally leads into zombies, but then there are still a lot of non-zombie movies/shows too purely about survival AFTER the Apocalypse. Battlestar, Jeremiah, Heroes, the road, and a half dozen other armageddon tv shows focused on a end times event (or survival afterwards).

And then there's the dozen or so good zombie movies. I always thought zombies (like the invasion films) represented getting lost in a sea of individuals. The fear that not only is the public indifferent to your survival, they're actually teaming up against you.
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MonkeyT
07/14/09

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Zombies don't represent mindless hordes coming to kill you. They represent the mindless hordes that already surround you who can be so easily manipulated into turning against you. Turning the harmless and oblivious into monsters: That's not done by terrorism, that's done by politics. To be convinced that everyone else who disagrees with you have been duped and turned into something hostile, that's where zombies come from. When your duly elected leadership has a popularity rate in the low twenties but you still can't figure out how to get rid of them, then they obviously have infected the genial masses and turned them into something monstrous. Never yourself, of course. Just THEM. What makes it worse is that "it's not really their fault."
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His_Steveness
07/14/09

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Or maybe it's because zombies are just awesome.
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comatoes
07/14/09

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Overblown, sensationalist, blatant attention grasping "journalism" by any chance?

Zombies = terrorists? Give me a break. Night of the Living Dead, 1968. Dawn of the Dead, 1978. Zombi 2, 1979. Day of the Dead, 1985. Oh and don't forget about a little story called Frankenstein.

Zombies are nothing new. Attaching them to something like 9/11 is just pathetic. Zombies are more popular now for one simple reason: horror in general is more mainstream. But the average person still wants to see a happy ending, so zombies make that an easier possibility than a serial killer like Jason or Michael that could spawn a series.
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Alasdair5000
07/14/09

@comatoes: On the one hand I think it's fair to say some zombie novels have been influenced by current events, but that rings true for all popular culture. The zombies/terrorists things doesn't fly for me either.
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van_line
07/14/09

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First it was Ninjas, then Pirates, then Zombies.

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RandomFrequentFlierDent
07/14/09

@van_line: And now it’s Vampires.

What’s next? Werewolves? Leprechauns? Chupacabras? Only time will tell.
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