The Zombie Survival Guide

The Zombie Survival Guide, published in 2003, is a non-fiction book that acts as a survival manual dealing with the fictional potentiality of a zombie attack. Its author, Max Brooks, lays out detailed plans for the average citizen to survive zombie uprisings of varying intensity. The book is divided into seven separate chapters, plus an appendix. The first chapter is entitled Myths and Realities. It lays down the specific ground rules that are referenced repeatedly in the book. The most important of these describes "Solanum", the fictional virus that creates zombie, along with detailing how it is spread, treatment of the infected, and why the zombie infection does not spread to non-human organisms. The second chapter, Weapons and Combat Techniques, discusses the weapons at the reader's disposal and weighs them against the various threats that may be faced during confrontations with the undead. The third chapter, On the Defensive, looks at options for an individual to stay in a... full article at wikipedia