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AMC’s zombie hit The Walking Dead has garnered a huge global audience. As the finale of the series’ fifth season screens, we should pay attention not to the zombies – but to the survivors.
Every generation creates a fictional enemy or monster that reflects the principal concern of the time – ours are zombies.
Your team is decimated. You’re surrounded by zombies. And they’re closing in. Normally, you lean forward, turn off your console, step away and play again once you’ve had the opportunity to regroup. But…
Zombies are undergoing a revival. Our screens have been filled with films such as “Zombieland”, “World War Z” and “Resident Evil”. Many home-made zombie will be knocking at our doors this week for Halloween…
Could a dire new infection sweep the world in a matter of weeks? Might the disease be so strange that it alters the behaviour of people beyond recognition, making them predatory and fearless? Could a great…
Amid the resurgent popularity of zombies in recent years – think The Walking Dead, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Shaun of the Dead and so on – the 2011 publication of Dan Drezner’s Theories of International…
High-tech fingerprint scanners may stop most thieves accessing a restricted area, but they have one fatal flaw: scanners can’t tell the difference between a finger that’s living or dead. Or undead. Cases…
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