I am amazed at how many zombie romances are out now. For example anthologies Hungry for Your Love
, the Loving Dead and My Zombie Valentine
. Not to mention full on zombie erotica like for the Love of the Dead: Gay Zombie Erotica
. There is zombie romance for the young adult crowd (Generation Dead
), and well frankly the list could go on and on.
, the Loving Dead and My Zombie Valentine. Not to mention full on zombie erotica like for the Love of the Dead: Gay Zombie Erotica. There is zombie romance for the young adult crowd (Generation Dead), and well frankly the list could go on and on.And now it seems some of them are going the next step--to the big screen.
- Breathers: a Zombie's Lament
by S. G. Browne, is has been picked up by Fox Searchlight.
- While director Jonathon Levine is developing another zombie romance novel, Warm Bodies
by Isaac Marion.
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This, I do not get.
At all.
Been encountering zombie erotica for at least 15 years. There was some in the Hot Blood series. In Grub-girl, she was dead, but aware, sentient and narrating the story. In the other they were voodoo zombies, basically rendered mindless by chemicals and not rotting.
I got picked up for Zombiality, A Queer Take on the Undead, which should come out later this year. Lesbian truckers in a post-zombie apoc. No zombie sex.
I called it a year ago. Vamps are over. Zombies are the next big trend.
Makes perfect sense. What else is a zombie but an outward manifestation of the virulent conformity that consumes independent thought? For everyone waiting around for the zombie apocalypse, it already came about twenty years ago, when cube farms started infecting office buildings and corporate casual became more than just a small section of JCPenney.
Sorry, I can't see how a zombie can be a romance lead... I'm with Jenn, I don't get it.
While I understand Xandra's comments about the zombie apocalypse, and get that shapeshifter heroes have literal manifestations of their animalistic sides, I just don't see the appeal of a hero (or heroine) who is a mindless consumerist drone. Heroes and heroines should be shooting those things in the face with shotguns, not falling in some kind of decaying love with them.
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