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.
(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.
geeky
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