John Sears | June 25, 2011
I’ve seen quite a bit of Young Adult oriented Zombie fiction crop up over the last couple of years; mostly bad stuff, from a Zombie Rights perspective, about some heroic teen triumphing over the adversities of having to share a planet with Zombies. You know, bigoted stuff. Still, sometimes a bit of understanding can come [...]
John Sears | June 21, 2011
(the book in question) We wrote about the hateful and odious piece of Anti-Zombie propaganda directed at children from our nemeses at the ZRS before here on the ZRC blog: I’m sorry, but this is just heinous, intentional Anti-Zombie indoctrination of children. That’s absolutely unacceptable; teaching children to *hate*? To hate Zombies? Even their own [...]
John Sears | June 4, 2011
Yes I know this story came out months ago… I think we were told about it in February. Still, news of the day often takes precedence, and besides, I foolishly wondered, how much more could Max Brooks really contribute to the canon of Living Supremacist fiction? As it turns out, quite a bit. The premise [...]
John Sears | June 1, 2011
Author and alleged ‘Zombie expert’ Scott Kenemore has kept busy over the last few years putting out books about Zombies. Well, kind of, anyway. He’s most famous for ‘The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead’, one of the first books I actually bought for the ZRC. Longtime readers may be aware that it’s [...]
John Sears | May 31, 2011
Well this sounds very promising and is definitely going on the ZRC’s Amazon wishlist: If you’re expecting the traditional zombie genre canon, you won’t find it here. Robert Swartwood’s Dishonored Dead describes a world in which zombies roam the relatively undead inhabited planet, live in cities, have families, drive cars and human’s, those that remain, [...]
John Sears | May 30, 2011
I don’t know how I missed this appalling little picture book but io9, frequent purveyors of Anti-Zombiism, had a small feature on it a while back: Check out some exclusive pages from Z is for Zombie by Adam-Troy Castro, with illustrations by Johnny Atomic, coming next week from Harper Voyager. As John Scalzi says, “It’s [...]
John Sears | May 28, 2011
Not much seems to be available about this movie yet, but it definitely seems to be a unique take on the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’: Here’s the trailer for an indie film being shot in Athens, GA. They are making a zombie film where the zombies have no real interest in the living unless they are provoked. [...]
John Sears | May 20, 2011
I’m not sure if this is supposed to be sly commentary on the elderly in America, on trendy energy drinks and pharma cocktails, or simply fearmongering about Grandma munching on younger skulls: An energy pill called Kilt turns the elderly into overactive, dangerous zombies. Time for the walking dead to GET KILT. The description is [...]
John Sears | May 20, 2011
Just what the world needs, right? Another bit of historical fiction infused with Zombies? Well, maybe: Ater being announced last year, Los Angeles-based entertainment venture Sham Productions has acquired the film rights to author Alan Goldsher’s acclaimed Beatles/zombie remix novel, Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion. Sham President Barry M. Greenberg will produce Goldsher’s [...]
John Sears | May 13, 2011
I’ve been meaning to get to this review for a while now but had to let it digest a while, so to speak. ‘Zombie High Yearbook ’64′ is a very unusual piece of alternate universe fiction cleverly disguised as a primary artifact from that same parallel history; in a world where the Undead were predominantly [...]