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Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN13: 9780806528779
Condition: NEW
Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth...
And law enforcement is ready to take them down!
Since Night of the Living Dead, zombies have been a frightening fixture on the pop culture landscape, lumbering after hapless humans, slurping up brains and veins and whatever warm, fleshy matter they can clench in their rotting limbs. But what if they were real? What would happen if, tomorrow, corpses across the nation began springing up out of their graves and terrorizing the living?
Employing hard science and solid police work not—to mention jaw-dropping (literally!) humor—Zombie CSU is the only guide you need to make it through alive—not undead. At last you can:
Investigate zombie crime scenes, collecting and analyzing evidence of zombie attacks, and create a "murder book" Examine the psychology of the zombie and develop a perp profile. Observe medical science pros as they probe felled zombies for forensic clues. Devise a zombie apocalypse survival scorecard and more!
Complete with lists of must-see zombie flicks from around the globe and tons of tips for kicking undead butt, Zombie CSU features hundreds of interviews with real zombie experts, forensics experts, detectives, filmmakers, and more.
Special guest stars: Tony Todd, Brian Keene, Patricia Tallman, David Wellington, James Gunn, Robert Kirkman, Dr. Wade Davis, Robert Sacchetto, Zombie Squad, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Paffenroth, Jamie Russell, Michael CJ Kelly, Bruce Andy Bohne, and dozens more!
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| Fantastic Non-Fiction on Zombies |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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As an avid zombie reader/watcher/teacher this is my number one resource for anything to do with zombies. It even beats out the Zombie Survival Guide in my opinion. Packed with interviews of experts in various different fields, Mayberry takes the reader through exactly how a zombie outbreak could actually happen--and our chances of surviving it. A great read which also has a lot of other info about other zombie books, movies, comics, organizations, etc. If you own just one zombie book, this would be the one to own.
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| Boring book that just rambles on |
| Customer Rating: 1 out of 5 |
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I bought this book due to my love of all things Zombie. What a disappointment. It took forever to get to the point. It looked like the author was copying information from a book on typical police procedure. He would then awkwardly adjust the data to fit in a Zombie reference. Don't waste your money, their are plenty of other good Zombie books out their.
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| Fascinating read, with a few minor problems |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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I'm a sucker for fantastic ideas treated realistically, so books like World War Z, which look at zombies and attempt to place them in our world are pure gold to me. This looked like the same sort of thing (though obviously not a narrative, more of a long essay), but from a completely different perspective, and I wasn't disappointed.
The focus here is on law enforcement, and other government and medical authorities. Experts in these fields are interviewed and asked to imagine various zombie scenarios and comment about the response to it, and the final outcome. This is both the greatest strength, and greatest weakness of this book.
The strength is obvious, these people know what they do inside and out, and are far more qualified than most to imagine these scenarios. The SWAT and legal experts, in particular, had some detailed and interesting ideas. That's why I devour books like this, to see what actual experts with real world experience will say.
The weakness comes from the fact that most of these experts seem incensed at the idea of being overtaken by the undead. To take this book's word for it, every cop is expertly trained and always cool under pressure. Most probably are, and they usually do get unfair treatment in zombie stories, but I've met enough cops to know that not all are (one actually told my friends and I that we made him nervous... and I am NOT a scary or aggressive person). I also thin that a bit too much faith is shown in the abilities of the CDC and WHO to react to and contain a fast spreading virus. Not that I doubt their abilities so much as I don't really buy that they could react fast enough to most of the zombie scenarios depicted in movies. There are dissenting opinions present, which is good, but the author is definitely on the side of "the authorities will handle it."
Finally, some points are raised that have been addressed in some works, but those works are not referenced. One specific example is the fact that zombies will eventually rot to the point of not being able to move. In the World War Z world (which is referenced other places), the zombie virus retards the decomposition process by making the flesh of the undead inedible to bacteria. Maybe not a likely scenario, but it would have been nice for that to be mentioned, rather than holding up eventual decomp as a likely way we would win.
I don't mean this to sound as negative as it does, I loved this book start to finish. The ideas and perspectives presented are fascinating, and the artwork scattered throughout is mostly of very high quality. It gets you thinking in new ways about old scenarios, and that's worth the price of admission right there.
PS: One last, minor quibble: The author mentioned the old "science can't explain how bees fly" notion to suggest that while science is exact, is it incomplete. The sentiment is right on, but the example is all wrong. We can explain exactly how bees fly, there is no mystery there (their wings create a tiny vortex above then that essentially sucks them up), we just couldn't explain it back when linear aerodynamics (which can explain how birds fly) were all that was known. Foolish ideas like this, and the idea that we only use 10% of our brains, just refuse to die.
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| Definitive and expansive...a must for horror and zombie fans. |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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Maberry takes you through the history, culture, and the possible science behind zombies...as well as spending well researched and supported theory on how an actual zombie epidemic would play out in the real world. Very detailed and a fun read.
i personally found some topics and debates trite....particularly when trying to rationalize Romero's early "zombie rules" with seemingly different ones in subsequent movies. Guys, he was was just making it up as he went along, primarily in the first movie....the whole "are they afraid of fire?....did they evolve as the movies went along?"...Romero really wasn't putting that much long-term thought in to those details. He just wanted to make a scary movie with some social commentary.
As great as this book is...it does show how some people just get a little too "nerdish" about horror and sci-fi and create debates about things that the original writers really weren't concerned with.
Simpsons really lampooned this in one of their Tree House of Horrors episodes when Lucy Lawless was being interviewed at a comicon about her Xena work.
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| GREAT INVESTMENT |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I was amazed by the information in this book. It is humorous, informative, and draws a great deal of perspective to an odd subject matter. After reading the book, I realized I would have paid twice the price I actually paid.
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