Comments on: Zombie Solanum is fiction.

By: MOTHERRUSSIA

MOTHERRUSSIA — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:12:38 +0000

@Iron Knight

Nice find! I tip my hat to you…this makes about 11th on my possible-infection-types list out of…say…50.

By: matt

matt — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:48:45 +0000

“Max Brooks fails to fact-check a section of his own book. About page 130, he states “…hunters have come up against walking dead who only hours before were members of their own party!”, when it is declared throughout the book that death and reanimation take approximately a day “Hour 23: Reanimation” (page 7). This is a pretty glaring mistake and should make clear that the ZSG is a work of excellent (and often humourous) fiction.”

yes it apparently takes 23 hours for reanimation but that is once they are infected. they can still be apart of the party for the next 20 so hours before they die. then it only takes a few hours from death until they reanimate. so max brooks did not make a mistake with his above statement. be sure to read and understand better next time ok? k thx bai

By: jake sp

jake sp — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:45:13 +0000

dude 23 hours isnt exact. it all depends on where the infection started. how close or far away fro the brain and how fast it gets there. nothing is exact when it comes to stuff like this.

By: Iron Knight

Iron Knight — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:23:44 +0000

Cordyceps, a type of fungus that attacks insects might be a viable candidate for zombie creation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyceps

By: 19surf96

19surf96 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:20:05 +0000

solanum isn’t found in nature but yes there are plants and whatnot whos scientific name is solanum but just read the zombie survival guide and other scientific reports just narrow down the search idiot…also google a guy named jacob tailor read everything about him

By: tentacles

tentacles — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:22:48 +0000

I could have sworn that I read something in the book about how Solanum is “not to be confused with the plant genus ” and that they only shared the same name.

By: Henry Chinaski

Henry Chinaski — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:11:16 +0000

if you liked quarentine you should check out Rant by Chuck Palahniuk. Its about the spread of a rabies strain told as a biography of the carrier.

Also, you guys should check out the site http://guerrillajournal.com they got a pretty awesome zombie series up there called How Me, Mikey, Xander and Some Stoners From the Suburbs Saved the World.

By: cyberdemon

cyberdemon — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:38:43 +0000

Max Brooks fails to fact-check a section of his own book. About page 130, he states “…hunters have come up against walking dead who only hours before were members of their own party!”,
well i know your point, but, it reads as well, “Those who die after the virus was in their body they will reanimate on the 5th hour of reanimation.
but still, he did not muck up there, the rest is fine!
at least that puts one fake virus out of the list :D

By: mike

mike — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:13:39 +0000

go check out quarentine, its main mode of infection is a new strain of rabies ,very cool movie, just ignore the overly scared main charecter

By: Mason

Mason — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:41:06 +0000

Lol thanks for helping set that straight seems like many got confused and believe everything they read ;).