I am a guest blogger over at Savage Minds for the month of July so have not been dedicating much time to my own blog. But I wanted to take a few minutes to put together a post about zombies and hiking. And also social organization, at least kind of. ☺

I am a big fan of Max Brooks’s book World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. I loved the fact that it brought the concept of the oral history—pioneered by anthropologists such as Elsie Clews Parsons and Paul Radin—to a general audience. And it did what I think the very best science fiction always does, talk about what we should see every day but never seem to bring ourselves to admit is there.

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