The book is designated satire, as it has a combination of horror, drama, and sociopolitical commentary. It is written as a collection of interviews with survivors and important figures telling the story of a Zombie war that nearly causes the extinction of mankind. In this world, zombies come about through a virus called Solanum , which is spread via bites from a zombie or fluid-to-fluid contact.
The zombies themselves are non-living beings, and can only be stopped by direct injury to the brain. Brooks has also released the short story "Closure, Ltd. In it, Max interviews the head of a company dedicated to finding closure for survivors of the zombie war—namely, by killing their zombified loved ones. This has now also been published in a very short short story collection Closure Limited and Other Zombie Tales which includes another story explicitly set in the World War Z 'verse The Wall , one which may be and another which is completely disconnected featuring zombies versus vampires.
This page refers to tropes found in the novel only. For tropes relating to the film, go to this page. He bought a large and showy Desert Eagle purely for intimidation and never practiced with it; he was aiming for the chest but was unprepared for the recoil. Luckily for him and everybody else present, his shot went wild and by pure chance hit Mueller in the head. Actor Allusion : More or less. The German version of the Redekker plan is the "Prochnow Plan".
In the audiobook version Jurgen Prochnow provides the voice of Philip Adler who tells about abandoning civilians as part of the plan. After the End : The framing interviews take place approximately 20 years after the Zombie Apocalypse began, roughly 10 years after humanity retakes the planet.
The stories themselves take place during it. Alien Blood : Zombie blood is black. One of the ways to tell a Quisling from a regular Z is that Qs bleed red. The Alliance : When the Chinese Politburo is completely obliterated by a rogue sub's nuclear strike on their compound, the Rebels and Loyalists unite against the zombie threat, with much more success than before. All There in the Manual : Though it's not exactly necessary to read The Zombie Survival Guide , the book does expound on the history of the solanum virus and the ways to combat it.
