Zombie Bits by Scott Nicholson

Author:Scott Nicholson [Nicholson, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal, Horror, zombie, living dead, Anthology, Fantasy, short stories, monster, postapocalyptic, walking dead, Jonathan Maberry, dark fantasy, pulp fiction, horror anthology, apocalypse, supernatural, Monsters, Zombies, jack kilborn, creatures, undead, flesh eating, Science Fiction
Goodreads: 8633279
Publisher: Haunted Computer Books
Published: 2010-07-19T00:00:00+00:00

FAST, THINKING ZOMBIES RISING BECAUSE OF A GOVERNMENT EXPERIMENT GONE WRONG.

This is the Return of the Living Dead model, and it has other tweaks on the model. The infected die over a period of a few hours and then reanimate as fully cognizant zombies. They can think, talk, strategies and work cooperatively. They also have a desire to eat only human brains, and their own bodies are remarkably difficult to kill.

Even severed limbs are active, as if every cell in the body has become a separate being. How this works with an arm detached from the central nervous system, not to mention the supportive and cooperative structures of the rest of the shoulder’s tendons and bones, is a bit hard to explain (which is why even as a kid I always thought that films like The Crawling Hand were just plain silly).

POTENTIAL FOR GLOBAL PANDEMIC: If we accept the mythology in its entirety, then the spread of the disease begins as a standard one-to-one outbreak with pandemic potential; but when we add to this a deliberate and hostile intelligence then it becomes a battle on the level of ethnic genocide.

LIMITS TO DISEASE SPREAD: Whomever has the best weapons will win; but with an enemy that can never be completely destroyed (even ash from incineration is a contaminant), there is no foreseen limit to the spread of the disease.

LIKELIHOOD OF SUCCESSFUL HUMAN OPPOSITION: Unless it starts on an island or in some place that can be contained without using incineration (and that depends on how fast we can erect a fifty-foot high concrete wall around an entire town), then our chances of stopping it would be very small.

LIKELIHOOD THAT WE’RE ALL TOAST: Isolated communities capable of fortification may survive until the zombies acquire weapons. And even that fifty-foot high concrete wall will yield to a tank or fifty determined thinking zombies with jack-hammers.

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