Solanum zombies (The Zombie Survival Guide)
Max Brooks's first book treats a zombie outbreak as a practical problem and explains how to survive one. It introduced Solanum, the fictional virus he used again in World War Z. Publishers Weekly called it an outrageous parody of a survival guide, and reviewers were unsure whether to read it as satire.1
When did it first appear?
2003Published 16 September 2003
What the sources say
Written as a straight-faced survival manual1
Includes a system for classifying the severity of outbreaks1
Ends with a list of recorded zombie attacks through history, later adapted as a comic1
An appendix provides an outbreak journal for logging suspicious activity1
Brooks has said he regards it as self-help, not humour1
World War Z is set in the same universe, and its zombies obey the same laws1
Sources
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Zombies of World War Z (film)
Zombies of World War Z (novel)
Zombie (World War Z, game)
Inferi
Zombies of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Blackwing undead (Death Troopers)
Phoners
The grown-ups of The Enemy
Zombies of The Rising