Wed 7 Mar 2007
you know you’re a zombie nerd when (part 62 of an ongoing series)
Posted by rt under UncategorizedIs this AWESOME? [ \Y/ or N ]
…when you disappointed that the book about zombies you bought isn’t as realistic as you’d hoped.
OH COME ON, HOW COULD ANYONE COVER UP A ZOMBIE EPIDEMIC? I MEAN C’MON!
March 7th, 2007 at 10:08pm
Long incubation period and 100% mortality, along with a desire of the local authorities to keep it hidden. Very few people get out of an infected region, and if they do it’s a while before they want brains. This would be compounded if the disease could spread from a living carrier; at first it would seem like a non-zombie plague, and who believes in zombies?
March 8th, 2007 at 7:15am
Are you talking about “World War Z”? I thought it was quite good.
March 8th, 2007 at 11:36am
ucblockhead: yeah I am talking about World War Z. I’ll properly review it when I’m done, but the early chapters have really annoyed my existing sense of what would happen during a zombie epidemic.
ShadowNode: the problem with what you are saying is that it’s not a long incubation period with the zombies in general fiction or this book. And of course, 100% mortality is the starting point of this whole game which means that the epidemic would be incredibly difficult to contain to a certain region.