Beware, for the zombies are coming...
http://www.amazon.com/World-War-Ora...9/ref=pd_sxp_f_pt/104-2666733-0147926?ie=UTF8
http://www.amazon.com/World-War-Ora...9/ref=pd_sxp_f_pt/104-2666733-0147926?ie=UTF8
So I just got my copy in, and started reading it at lunch. Verdict so far: Excellent! It's written rather in the style of Strieber/Kunetka's 'Warday' - first person accounts of the 'Zombie War'.
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.I'm sorry to say that I do own a copy of "Warday." A more dated book you'll never find.
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.
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.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?
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...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
So I just got my copy in, and started reading it at lunch. Verdict so far: Excellent! It's written rather in the style of Strieber/Kunetka's 'Warday' - first person accounts of the 'Zombie War'.
That was the kind of detail I had in mind. So what was the casulaty rate overall? And how well did China do?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.