fighting the lack of good ideas
I made a mistake 4 years ago. I said vampires and zombies couldn’t [long] coexist. Because they’d be competing for the same – dwindling – food source: the living (vs them both being undead). But I was wrong. If the universe in which they exist is a mash-up of that of Twilight and iZombie ……
As you all know, I am a huge zombie fan. And, as you probably know, I was a CIS/CS major/minor at Elon. A concept I was introduced to at both Shodor and Elon was ant colony simulations. And I realized today that many people have been introduced to the basics concepts of ant colony simulations…
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A few years ago I wrote about why I like good vampire and zombie stories. I had an epiphany this week related to that, that I thought you’d all find interesting. If vampires exist, zombies can not exist [long] in the same universe. Why? Because they’d be eliminating the only source of food for the…
It had such promise. Or, should have. How could you go wrong? Slow zombies. Arnold Schwarzenegger. A plot. It was also [almost] direct-to-video. What am I talking about? Maggie. The worst movie Ahnold has been in since End Of Days (and boy was that one bad). No, it was worse than End Of Days. I don’t…
I finished the Newsflesh trilogy this week, which culminated in Mira Grant’s book Blackout. The basic storyline and character development continued apace, and the story does end admirably. If you’ve read the first two, you should finish the trilogy. This one adds human cloning as a core plot point, and does it well. However, I…
Many people recently have asked me why I like [some] zombie and vampire stories (and, more generally, why they’re so popular right now), and after taking the time to think carefully on the topic and explain it to them in person, I thought I’d do my 3 readers a favor and write it out here…
I read Feed (review) a few weeks ago, and just finished the 2d installment in Mira Grant’s Newsflesh trilogy, Deadline. The frenetic pace of book 1 was upped a level in book 2 (along with some more language). Mira is a fantastic author, and I cannot wait to read Blackout (it’s on my library queue)….