Beware, for the zombies are coming...
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World War Z!
- Thread starter Grimm Reaper
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I'm sorry to say that I do own a copy of "Warday." A more dated book you'll never find.
Diamond
Banned
Doesn't mean it isn't a good read. For it's time, it held up very well, and even now it's a very entertaining and thought-provoking story. But I'm not comparing World War Z to Warday in content, merely in the 'feel' of it.
So it's got that same wistful, wishful tone that Warday had? That was one thing I did appreciate, even if some of the background was a bit ASBish. I guess I could see that sort of thing. Is it worth getting?
Diamond
Banned
It's composed of dozens of 'personal' stories - the experiences of ordinary people from all over the world, from Taiwan to the Amazon to Finland - living through a decade-long zombie apocalypse. Brooks has done a good job giving each vignette it's own 'feel' - it doesn't read like one narrator describing events. It's very well written, but it doesn't have the same vibe as Warday; I meant only that it's composed in a similar way. Warday is the only somewhat relevant analogy I could think of.
Anyway, it's definitely worth getting.
I remembered somewhere in the beginning it said that Lhasa (part of the People's Republic of Tibet) is now the most populated city in the world. At only 200,000 + inhabitants (as of 2006), that's pretty small. Refugees might have swelled the population a bit, and this is in the future, but throwing in the zombie infection, I wouldn't expect the population to be above 175,000. What this says for the rest of the world, I'm not sure
Diamond
Banned
The zombies were frozen by cold weather, so I would imagine Tibet became a kind of 'refugee central', with people flocking there from all over central and SE Asia; that's probably the main reason.. I would imagine the population has swelled considerably after the War, since for probably 8 or 9 months out of the year, it's a safer place to be than, say, lowland China or India...
Admiral Matt
Gone Fishin'
Just got it Saturday night, finished it in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. Very good, overall. I had rather high expectations, but I am satisfied. I thought he did an astonishingly good job of making objective predictions of how things would turn out (by which I mean government shifts and technology). The only iffy bits I saw were towards the end: The idea of a solid line of infantry stretching from Canada to the Gulf is... out there. Do you have any idea how many people that requires, even if you thin out to the most ridiculously hazardous levels? I also thought there wasn't enough attention put into the altered ecology in a world where zombies have eaten almost every animal on land, and most of the bottom-dwelling sea life. Just nit-picks, really.
I think that's pretty much the idea, with Tibet. Also, there's the matter of zombies not being able to walk up steep slopes. So while infected could get into the country and spread the disease, full blown zombies would be easy to fend off.
Which is important when there are hundreds of millions of zombies wandering India, China, and Central Asia.
I think that's pretty much the idea, with Tibet. Also, there's the matter of zombies not being able to walk up steep slopes. So while infected could get into the country and spread the disease, full blown zombies would be easy to fend off.
Which is important when there are hundreds of millions of zombies wandering India, China, and Central Asia.
Which was in turn based on Studs Terkel's "The Good War: An Oral History of WWII".
Nature's End is as dated as Warday, perhaps more as it's set in 2015...
Darkest
Banned
The book is awesome, especially in a geopolitical sense. You can get a vague description of the post-WWZ world at the wikipedia article. For any of those looking forward to read the book, PLEASE DON'T LOOK AT THIS ARTICLE. I read just a little and it totally spoiled a major part of the book.
Anyway, Hendry (SPOILERS AHEAD), France had quite a time clearing out the Parisian Undercity. A quarter million poured into the catacombs, started creating their own tunnels, and generally widened the whole system, before being totally infected. When the French went on the offense, they had to clear the tunnels, leading to Underground divisions (and subterranean aquatic zombie-hunter specialists, as some areas were flooded) that had the highest casualty rate of the entire war.
Interesting things include Mexico becoming Aztlan, the transformation of the Russian Federation into the Holy Russian Empire (sorta believable actually, after the events of the war), the greater unification of the European Union (the Czech Republic is referred to as a 'province'), the United States of South Africa, the Pacific Continent, the United Federation of China after the Chinese Civil War, the West Indies Federation, and Cuba becoming a democratic republic.
Anyway, Hendry (SPOILERS AHEAD), France had quite a time clearing out the Parisian Undercity. A quarter million poured into the catacombs, started creating their own tunnels, and generally widened the whole system, before being totally infected. When the French went on the offense, they had to clear the tunnels, leading to Underground divisions (and subterranean aquatic zombie-hunter specialists, as some areas were flooded) that had the highest casualty rate of the entire war.
Interesting things include Mexico becoming Aztlan, the transformation of the Russian Federation into the Holy Russian Empire (sorta believable actually, after the events of the war), the greater unification of the European Union (the Czech Republic is referred to as a 'province'), the United States of South Africa, the Pacific Continent, the United Federation of China after the Chinese Civil War, the West Indies Federation, and Cuba becoming a democratic republic.
Darkest
Banned
Lol, Susano...
No, there was just a change in government, and they renamed Mexico to Aztlan. They didn't say whether it was a republic, confederation, or even a flipping theocracy, but they did say the name. The Southwest US was actually very important for the American Reconquista of the east.
No, there was just a change in government, and they renamed Mexico to Aztlan. They didn't say whether it was a republic, confederation, or even a flipping theocracy, but they did say the name. The Southwest US was actually very important for the American Reconquista of the east.
Hendryk
Banned
That was the kind of detail I had in mind. So what was the casulaty rate overall? And how well did China do?