In honor of George Romero's birthday, I am giving away an ARC of Feed to one lucky commenter. This is a random draw giveaway. At noon Pacific tomorrow, I will use my magical random number generator and select a winner. They will then have until noon Pacific on Sunday to send me their mailing information (through my website), or I will pick another winner.
So please! Comment! Tell me your favorite thing about zombies, or why you want to read Feed, or what you'll do if you win, or whatever. (I mean, a comment beyond just "comment" is nice, but not strictly required.)
George Romero gave the world zombies. In honor of his birthday, so do I. Because zombies are love.
My favourite thing about zombies is the many different explanations as to how they exist, and figuring out what infectious diseases could mutate enough to cause a zombie apocalypse.
I want to read Feed so I can tell all my zombie-loving friends, including Fallon, who is six, that I have a book about zombies, they can't have it, and it'll be in stores soon. :p And then I'll probably tell LJ (or at least my LJ, and statements) how full of squee I am.
my favorite thing about zombies has to be the movie trailer for dead snow. not the movie itself, just the trailer. i'm sure the movie is awesome but i haven't watched it yet. nazi zombies popping out of the snow and running around to beethoven's ode to joy...yeah someone went there
Though I am likely not eligible to win, I'd like to throw a proxy in on behalf of my stepson who would benefit from an ARC in his attempts to woo a woman.
Zombies are awesome precisely because they aren't awesome! Totally makes sense! And their demands are so simple! They want none of this venti half-caff 1% nonsense; just brains, if you please. And also I can fight zombies, unlike the massive amounts of snow that insists on falling on me. Stupid weather, daggum kids on my lawn... ...wait, what was I talking about?
*waves* Me! Having read the back-cover copy, I covet the chance to read this book, and sooner would be nicer.
I don't normally covet horror books. In fact, I normally give them a very very wide berth.
I covet this one. I want to pet and snuggle and READ it. (When I get to - and sooner or later I will, if not in ARC then after it's published - I suppose that while I am snuggling it, it will probably bite my face off. Because, well, that's oddly appropriate....)
(I was going to mention this in your previous post, but what the heck, free SM books are fabulous things.)
Funny you should mention NotLD's invention of the zombie genre, as I was just thinking of it the other day (without knowing his birthday was coming up). But you missed a critical point, I think. The main new thing that the movie put into the pot was the concept of it being contagious. Undead making more undead at an accelerating rate. Sure, vampires could reproduce, but by whatever twist of the legend a given vampire movie was using, they didn't ever do it en masse. That being suddenly and rapidly over-run was the brilliant innovation.
Zombies scare me. They are a relentless, implacable enemy. Zombies feel no pain and are immune to reasoning. Unlike animals, they cannot be wounded or frightened; they do not follow behavioural patterns that can be used to circumvent attack, and unlike people, their motivations are not intellectual. They want to feed, and shuffle, and chase - that's it. Somehow, the fact that they don't run is worse than if they did. In my teenaged nightmares, the men in suits who inevitably followed me down the three-tined road alongside the ocean and shot me in the back never sped in pusuit, even when they had a car; they *prowled*, because I was prey, and they could afford to go slowly, because escape was not an option.
But this is why I like zombie stories, even as they terrify me: because they tell me what weapons to find, and where to aim the death-blow, and how long I have to disinfect a bite (or not) before I rise, and whether zombie-Dobermans are an issue, like in the first Resident Evil movie, or if a loved one can be cured. In case of the inevitable Zombie Apocalypse, they contain a Plan. And given how fucking scary zombies really are, that's something I endorse wholeheartedly.
I'd love to read a good zombie story; I've never thought they sounded particularly interesting, well, in the way of reading about them, and definitely not interesting if they ever moved into the neighborhood, hehehehe. Anyway, I'd like to feel the zombie love that so many here in your f-list seem to feel, so, there you go.
btw, thanks for doing these drawings and things, it really adds to the fun of blogging :)
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zombies :)
February 5 2010, 02:30:39 UTC 7 years ago
February 5 2010, 02:38:40 UTC 7 years ago
Like your Feed...like Mike's Zombie Mama....like my son's battle plans.....like ammo-throwing plants....creative love baby!
February 5 2010, 02:40:26 UTC 7 years ago
-Zombies
-Evil Genius Mira Grant
How could I NOT want to read Feed? :-)
February 5 2010, 02:51:15 UTC 7 years ago
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February 5 2010, 03:14:13 UTC 7 years ago
At least I feeel like one. Braaaaains!
February 5 2010, 03:53:29 UTC 7 years ago
February 5 2010, 04:13:00 UTC 7 years ago
I don't normally covet horror books. In fact, I normally give them a very very wide berth.
I covet this one. I want to pet and snuggle and READ it. (When I get to - and sooner or later I will, if not in ARC then after it's published - I suppose that while I am snuggling it, it will probably bite my face off. Because, well, that's oddly appropriate....)
February 5 2010, 04:26:14 UTC 7 years ago
February 5 2010, 04:31:19 UTC 7 years ago
Funny you should mention NotLD's invention of the zombie genre, as I was just thinking of it the other day (without knowing his birthday was coming up). But you missed a critical point, I think. The main new thing that the movie put into the pot was the concept of it being contagious. Undead making more undead at an accelerating rate. Sure, vampires could reproduce, but by whatever twist of the legend a given vampire movie was using, they didn't ever do it en masse. That being suddenly and rapidly over-run was the brilliant innovation.
By the way, have you seen this?
http://kevan.org/proce55ing/zombies/
February 5 2010, 06:13:46 UTC 7 years ago
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Lola
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But this is why I like zombie stories, even as they terrify me: because they tell me what weapons to find, and where to aim the death-blow, and how long I have to disinfect a bite (or not) before I rise, and whether zombie-Dobermans are an issue, like in the first Resident Evil movie, or if a loved one can be cured. In case of the inevitable Zombie Apocalypse, they contain a Plan. And given how fucking scary zombies really are, that's something I endorse wholeheartedly.
February 5 2010, 15:08:12 UTC 7 years ago
February 5 2010, 15:18:23 UTC 7 years ago
btw, thanks for doing these drawings and things, it really adds to the fun of blogging :)
February 5 2010, 15:56:39 UTC 7 years ago
February 5 2010, 16:07:47 UTC 7 years ago
(h/t
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