zombi are sweeping the publishing diligence , with script likeWorld War ZandPride And Prejudice And Zombiessweeping the best seller charts . Up next : “ Zombies - plus ” books , with zombies - plus - something - else . What ’s behind the zombie - passion ? Maybe it ’s a metaphor for faceless terrorism .
Publisher ’s Weekly has a corking clause about the zombie craze , talking to editors at Tor Books and Quirk Books , among others , about the rise trend . ApparentlyMax Brookshas a third zombie Quran coming out , on the heel of Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z — Brooks ’ forthcoming Zombie Survival Guide : register Attacks is a graphic novel of historical zombie attacks go steady back to 60,000 B.C.
Meanwhile , other recent zombie success include David Wellington ’s Monster Island , Stephen King ’s Cell , S.G. Browne ’s snorkel breather : A Zombie Lament , andJohn Joseph Adams ‘ anthologyThe Living Dead . Zombies are moving into immature - adult and children ’s fiction , but the real cutting border , says Tor ’s Liz Gorinsky , is script that combine living dead with other stuff — there ’s George Mann ’s Affinity Bridge , a steampunk novel with reanimated corpse , Cherie Priest ’s period - Gothic architecture - with - zombi spirit Boneshaker , and even a Star Wars undead novel , Death Troopers .
Some publishing execs warn the zombi craze is almost over , since there ’s only so much you may do with zombies — as opposed to vampire , who can be romanticistic as well as shivery . ( Supposedly , anyway . ) So what caused the zombie agitation in the first place ? Publisher ’s Weekly finger the all - purpose zeitgeist explanation , the September 11 terrorist flak :
Then come the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the national fear of a faceless host of foe slavishly obedient to their objective of dish out extreme violence . on the spur of the moment , the zombie became a freak for our clock time . “ I cerebrate it ’s interesting that the spike in zombie interest occurred right around the time of 9/11 and the Iraq War , ” say [ Quirk ’s Jason ] Rekulak . “ It ’s been make ever since . ”
World War Z art by Daniel LuVisi . [ Publisher ’s Weekly ]
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