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World War Z: an Oral History of the Zombie War, By: Max Brooks
Fiction: Sci-fi, horror 342 pages, 2006

This book is a documentary on the Zombie War as told by the survivors. It looks at a war with zombies in a very serious way that a real documentarien would starting at the first cases of zombie outbreak and ending at a post-zombie war world in which people are still dealing with zombies and the destruction on the world they caused. It was clear that the author clearly defined a “science” to zombies and was working from that in the writing of his book. (Most likely contained in his earlier work “The Zombie Survival Guide”.) It was a well written book; however, it was not what I was expecting as I knew that the author was the son of the famous comedy director Mel Brooks and has worked in comedy himself in the past, so I wasn’t expecting this to be the serious sci-fi book that is in many places is. Also Paramount has gotten the rights to make a movie out of the story and it is currently in the pre-production stage.