Books

[dsrtao]

_World War Z_, Max Brooks

In 1984, Whitley Strieber (who was to go on to, erm, lesser things) and James Kunetka published a book called _Warday_. It was a fictional oral history of a limited nuclear war between the US and the USSR.

_World War Z_ is an extremely similar book, only it's about the zombie war.

There are some good stories, some interesting vignettes, some standard horror stories, and some boring bits where I wondered about the magical nature of zombies in an otherwise rational world.

Comments

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

I had forgotten Warday.

I loved World War Z.

You know who the author's dad is?

[evilnicola.livejournal.com]

I really liked it, personally.

[dsrtao]

Mel, I think.

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

Yep.

I also learned last night that Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle have published a hard-cover sequel to "Inferno," called "Escape from Hell."

I liked "Inferno" a lot.

[seawasp]

As I mentioned on r.a.sf.w, I can't see the title without imagining that it's a crossover between Turtledove's "World War" alien invasion series and "Dragonball Z".

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Some concept art (and rumors of a movie) for WWZ:

http://io9.com/5140561/world-war-z-concept-art-rocks-the-battle-of-yonkers

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

...and there was just a live-action(!) trailer for the latter, when I was at the movies last.

[seawasp]

Well, no, for "Dragonball: Evolution", which owes its ancestry MUCH more to DragonBALL than to DBZ. DBZ would be the natural follow-on, if it does well.

I am setting my sights VERY low on this one, as while they have picked a number of good cast members, the changes are so extreme that I'm going to be having the same cognitive dissonance with this movie that I have with the new Battlestar Galactica: yeah, you got the names, a few similar visuals and the REALLY broad plot outline, but after that...