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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War Taschenbuch – 16. Oktober 2007
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We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z is the only record of the pandemic.
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
“Will spook you for real.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Possesses more creativity and zip than entire crates of other new fiction titles. Think Mad Max meets The Hot Zone. . . . It’s Apocalypse Now, pandemic-style. Creepy but fascinating.”—USA Today
“Will grab you as tightly as a dead man’s fist. A.”—Entertainment Weekly, EW Pick
“Probably the most topical and literate scare since Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds radio broadcast . . . This is action-packed social-political satire with a global view.”—Dallas Morning News
- Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe342 Seiten
- SpracheEnglisch
- Erscheinungstermin16. Oktober 2007
- Lesealter13–17 Jahre
- Abmessungen20.07 x 12.95 x 2.54 cm
- ISBN-109780307346612
- ISBN-13978-0307346612
- Lexile-Bewertung960L
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“An ‘oral history’ of the global war the evil brain-chewers came within a hair of winning. Zombies are among us—turn on your television if you don’t believe it. But, Brooks reassures us, even today, human fighters are hunting down the leftovers, and we’re winning. [His] iron-jaw narrative is studded with practical advice on what to do when the zombies come, as they surely will. A literate, ironic, strangely tasty treat.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Max Brooks has charted the folly of a disaster response based solely on advanced technologies and brute force in this step-by-step guide to what happened in the Zombie War. He details with extraordinary insight how in the face of institutional missteps and greed, people in unexpected ways achieve unique, creative, and effective strategies to survive and fight back. Brooks’s account of the path to recovery and reconstruction after the war is fascinating, too. World War Z provides us with a starting point, at least, a basic blueprint from which to build a popular understanding of how, when, and why such a disaster came to be, and how small groups and individuals survived.”—Jeb Weisman, Ph.D.,Director of Strategic Technologies, National Center for Disaster Preparedness
“Possesses more creativity and zip than entire crates of other new fiction titles. Think Mad Max meets The Hot Zone . . . It’s Apocalypse Now, pandemic-style. Creepy but fascinating.”—USA Today
“Prepare to be entranced by this addictively readable oral history of the great war between humans and zombies. . . . Will grab you as tightly as a dead man’s fist. A.”—Entertainment Weekly, EW Pick
“Probably the most topical and literate scare since Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio broadcast. . . . This is action-packed social-political satire with a global view.”—Dallas Morning News
“Brooks [is] America’s most prominent maven on the living dead. . . . Chilling. . . . It is gripping reading and a scathing indictment of weak responses to crises real and over-hyped.”—Hartford Courant
“A sober, frequently horrifying and even moving account. . . . Brooks has delivered a full-blown horror novel, laced with sharp social and political observations and loads of macabre, gruesome imagery. . . . The real horror of World War Z comes from the all-too-plausible responses of human beings and governments to the menace.”—Fangoria
“A horror fan’s version of Studs Terkel’s The Good War. . . . Like George Romero’s Dead trilogy, World War Z is another milestone in the zombie mythology.”—Booklist
“Brooks commits to detail in a way that makes his nightmare world creepily plausible. . . . Far more affecting than anything involving zombies really has any right to be. . . . The book . . . opens in blood and guts, turns the world into an oversized version of hell, then ends with and affirmation of humanity’s ability to survive the worst the world has to offer. It feels like the right book for the right times, and that’s the eeriest detail of all.”—The A.V. Club
“The best science fiction has traditionally been steeped in social commentary. World War Z continues that legacy. . . . We haven’t been this excited about a book without pictures since–well, since ever.”—Metro
“Each story locks together perfectly to create a wonderful, giddy suspense. Brooks also has the political savvy to take advantage of any paranoia a modern reader might feel. . . . The perfect book for all us zombie junkies.”—Paste
“This infectious and compelling book will have nervous readers watching the streets for zombies. Recommended.”—Library Journal
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Leseprobe. Abdruck erfolgt mit freundlicher Genehmigung der Rechteinhaber. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
WARNINGS
GREATER CHONGQING, THE UNITED FEDERATION OF CHINA
[At its prewar height, this region boasted a population of over thirty-five million people. Now, there are barely fifty thousand. Reconstruction funds have been slow to arrive in this part of the country, the government choosing to concentrate on the more densely populated coast. There is no central power grid, no running water besides the Yangtze River. But the streets are clear of rubble and the local "security council" has prevented any postwar outbreaks. The chairman of that council is Kwang Jingshu, a medical doctor who, despite his advanced age and wartime injuries, still manages to make house calls to all his patients.]
The first outbreak I saw was in a remote village that officially had no name. The residents called it "New Dachang," but this was more out of nostalgia than anything else. Their former home, "Old Dachang," had stood since the period of the Three Kingdoms, with farms and houses and even trees said to be centuries old. When the Three Gorges Dam was completed, and reservoir waters began to rise, much of Dachang had been disassembled, brick by brick, then rebuilt on higher ground. This New Dachang, however, was not a town anymore, but a "national historic museum." It must have been a heartbreaking irony for those poor peasants, to see their town saved but then only being able to visit it as a tourist. Maybe that is why some of them chose to name their newly constructed hamlet "New Dachang" to preserve some connection to their heritage, even if it was only in name. I personally didn't know that this other New Dachang existed, so you can imagine how confused I was when the call came in.
The hospital was quiet; it had been a slow night, even for the increasing number of drunk-driving accidents. Motorcycles were becoming very popular. We used to say that your Harley-Davidsons killed more young Chinese than all the GIs in the Korean War. That's why I was so grateful for a quiet shift. I was tired, my back and feet ached. I was on my way out to smoke a cigarette and watch the dawn when I heard my name being paged. The receptionist that night was new and couldn't quite understand the dialect. There had been an accident, or an illness. It was an emergency, that part was obvious, and could we please send help at once.
What could I say? The younger doctors, the kids who think medicine is just a way to pad their bank accounts, they certainly weren't going to go help some "nongmin" just for the sake of helping. I guess I'm still an old revolutionary at heart. "Our duty is to hold ourselves responsible to the people." Those words still mean something to me . . . and I tried to remember that as my Deer bounced and banged over dirt roads the government had promised but never quite gotten around to paving.
I had a devil of a time finding the place. Officially, it didn't exist and therefore wasn't on any map. I became lost several times and had to ask directions from locals who kept thinking I meant the museum town. I was in an impatient mood by the time I reached the small collection of hilltop homes. I remember thinking, This had better be damned serious. Once I saw their faces, I regretted my wish.
There were seven of them, all on cots, all barely conscious. The villagers had moved them into their new communal meeting hall. The walls and floor were bare cement. The air was cold and damp. Of course they're sick, I thought. I asked the villagers who had been taking care of these people. They said no one, it wasn't "safe." I noticed that the door had been locked from the outside. The villagers were clearly terrified. They cringed and whispered; some kept their distance and prayed. Their behavior made me angry, not at them, you understand, not as individuals, but what they represented about our country. After centuries of foreign oppression, exploitation, and humiliation, we were finally reclaiming our rightful place as humanity's middle kingdom. We were the world's richest and most dynamic superpower, masters of everything from outer space to cyber space. It was the dawn of what the world was finally acknowledging as "The Chinese Century" and yet so many of us still lived like these ignorant peasants, as stagnant and superstitious as the earliest Yangshao savages.
I was still lost in my grand, cultural criticism when I knelt to examine the first patient. She was running a high fever, forty degrees centigrade, and she was shivering violently. Barely coherent, she whimpered slightly when I tried to move her limbs. There was a wound in her right forearm, a bite mark. As I examined it more closely, I realized that it wasn't from an animal. The bite radius and teeth marks had to have come from a small, or possibly young, human being. Although I hypothesized this to be the source of the infection, the actual injury was surprisingly clean. I asked the villagers, again, who had been taking care of these people. Again, they told me no one. I knew this could not be true. The human mouth is packed with bacteria, even more so than the most unhygienic dog. If no one had cleaned this woman's wound, why wasn't it throbbing with infection?
I examined the six other patients. All showed similar symptoms, all had similar wounds on various parts of their bodies. I asked one man, the most lucid of the group, who or what had inflicted these injuries. He told me it had happened when they had tried to subdue "him."
"Who?" I asked.
I found "Patient Zero" behind the locked door of an abandoned house across town. He was twelve years old. His wrists and feet were bound with plastic packing twine. Although he'd rubbed off the skin around his bonds, there was no blood. There was also no blood on his other wounds, not on the gouges on his legs or arms, or from the large dry gap where his right big toe had been. He was writhing like an animal; a gag muffled his growls.
At first the villagers tried to hold me back. They warned me not to touch him, that he was "cursed." I shrugged them off and reached for my mask and gloves. The boy's skin was as cold and gray as the cement on which he lay. I could find neither his heartbeat nor his pulse. His eyes were wild, wide and sunken back in their sockets. They remained locked on me like a predatory beast. Throughout the examination he was inexplicably hostile, reaching for me with his bound hands and snapping at me through his gag.
His movements were so violent I had to call for two of the largest villagers to help me hold him down. Initially they wouldn't budge, cowering in the doorway like baby rabbits. I explained that there was no risk of infection if they used gloves and masks. When they shook their heads, I made it an order, even though I had no lawful authority to do so.
That was all it took. The two oxen knelt beside me. One held the boy's feet while the other grasped his hands. I tried to take a blood sample and instead extracted only brown, viscous matter. As I was withdrawing the needle, the boy began another bout of violent struggling.
One of my "orderlies," the one responsible for his arms, gave up trying to hold them and thought it might safer if he just braced them against the floor with his knees. But the boy jerked again and I heard his left arm snap. Jagged ends of both radius and ulna bones stabbed through his gray flesh. Although the boy didn't cry out, didn't even seem to notice, it was enough for both assistants to leap back and run from the room.
I instinctively retreated several paces myself. I am embarrassed to admit this; I have been a...
Produktinformation
- ASIN : 0307346617
- Herausgeber : Random House Worlds; Reprint Edition (16. Oktober 2007)
- Sprache : Englisch
- Taschenbuch : 342 Seiten
- ISBN-10 : 9780307346612
- ISBN-13 : 978-0307346612
- Lesealter : 13–17 Jahre
- Abmessungen : 20.07 x 12.95 x 2.54 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 530,404 in Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Bücher)
- Nr. 1,996 in Action - Krieg & Militär (Bücher)
- Nr. 3,267 in Kriegsromane
- Nr. 5,959 in Abenteuer - Science-Fiction
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Max Brooks, geboren 1972, ist der Sohn von Mel Brooks und Anne Bancroft. Er lebt als erfolgreicher Comedy Autor in New York City, ist nach eigenem Bekunden aber stets bereit, von heute auf morgen an einen abgelegenen Ort zu ziehen, der leichter zu verteidigen ist.
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Brooks berichtet in Form einer Dokumentation mit fiktiven Interviews mit Überlebenden vom Untergang der Zivilisation wie wir Sie kennen. Die Welt wird von Untoten, ausgehend von China überrannt. Das ganze Geschehen wird dabei aus vielen verschiedenen Blickwinkeln betrachtet und der Leser erhält ganz persönliche Einblicke in die Erlebnisse einzelner Personen. Das sind Ärzte, Soldaten, Wissenschaftler, Journalisten und ganz "normale" Menschen, die von der Katastrophe überwältigt werden.
Trotz dieser eigenwilligen Erzählweise (komplett mit teils ebenso fiktiven Fussnoten !) entfaltet sich ein erschreckendes Szenarium . Klar, man benötigt schon einiges an Phantasie und muss sich auf das Buch einlassen, ist das aber erst einmal geschafft, lässt es einen nicht mehr los.
Einziges Manko: Die Ereignisse spielen nicht in der Gegenwart oder Zukunft, sondern von uns aus gesehen in der Vergangenheit (es gibt z.B. noch eine Sowjetunion...). Aber so wissen wir wenigstens, dass es eben doch nicht passiert ist :-)....
Umso mehr warte ich jetzt etwas ungeduldig auf den Filmstart.
Nachtrag 27.06.2013: Gestern habe ich nun den Film gesehen. Hmmm.... Eigentlich sind nur die Idee und ein paar Fetzen des Inhalts und der Handlung übriggeblieben. So z.B. eine Szene, die das Eindringen der Zombies in das hermetisch abgeriegelte Israel schildert. Auch die Protagonisten (ein UN-Ermittler: Brad Pitt), seine Familie und eine israelische Soldatin, die mit dem Helden (Pitt) auf der Suche nach einem Gegenmittel und dem Ursprung der Seuche um die Welt hetzt, haben wenig bis nichts mit dem Buch zu tun. Übriggeblieben ist ein High-Speed-Schocker, der ganz auf Effekte und Tempo setzt. Nichts von der langsam sich entfaltenden Szenerie des Schreckens, die sich bedrohlich durch die einzelnen Erzählstränge und den dokumentarischen Erzählstil des Buchs entwickelt. Zum Schluss findet der Held tatsächlich das Gegenmittel (was, verrate ich nicht - DIE Idee ist gut, hat aber mit dem Buch auch nichts zu tun) und rettet die Welt. Der Film endet mit den Worten: "Unser Krieg hat gerade erst begonnen...". Da beginnt eigentlich das Buch. Na ja. Trotzdem ein kurzweiliger Abend und einigermaßen gute Unterhaltung.
Für alle, die sich jetzt vielleicht darüber aufregen, dass ich hier noch auf den Film eingegangen bin: klar, das hat hier eigentlich nichts zu suchen. Ich fand es nur ganz interessant, mal zu schildern, was aus einem wirklich guten und spannenden Buch von H'wood gemacht wird.
Mein Tip: Erst den Film, dann das Buch !
Unbedingt lesen und 5* !
Manche Sachen waren großartig (z.B. David Moody mit Autumn, Spiele wie Last Night On Earth oder natürlich All Flesh Must Be Eaten), aber wie es bei viele gute Ideen ist wurde der Markt auch mit arg mittelmäßiger Dutzendware überschwemmt.
Der klassische Zombie-Apokalypse-Survival-Horror wirkt beim 180sten Aufguss eben auch ein wenig sehr vorhersehbar, daher muss ich sagen dass ich mich zwar über das Comeback unser aller Lieblingsuntoter gefreut habe, mitunter aber etwas genervt über das wurde, was an Zeug herauskam.
Ähnlich wie bei den Vampiren in den 90ern wurden die gleichen Klischees immer und immer wieder neu aufgekocht, was mache Romane und Filme einfach fürchterlich öde machte - zumal Zombies ja auch nicht für totale Originalität stehen.
Wie dem auch sei - einer der ersten bei dieser Welle des Zombie-Comebacks war ja Max Brooks mit seiner Zombie-Survival-Guide... einem bierernst geschriebenen und schrägen Führer für den Kampf gegen die Untoten. Das Buch zeichnete sich durch eine bemerkenswerte Glaubhaftigkeit aus, Brooks nimmt sich des Themas sehr ernst und gründlich an.
Im gleichen Stil geht es mit WORLD WAR Z weiter. Einige Jahre nach der globalen Zombie-Apokalypse, die die Menschheit nur knapp überlebte, berichten die Veteranen aus ihrer Sicht von diesem Krieg. Das Buch besteht aus einigen Dutzend chronologisch geordneten Interviews und Berichten vom Kampf gegen die Zombies.
Auch hier gilt: Brooks nähert sich seinem Thema authentisch und ohne jeden Klamauk, sondern schreibt durchaus ernste Interviews, das Buch liest sich direkt realistisch.
Brooks nimmt sich vor dem Hintergrund des Krieges gegen die Zombies zahlreiche Themen vor: so lässt er seine aus allen ethnischen Hintergründen stammende Protagonisten lange über moralische Themen debattieren, wirtschaftliche Abhandlungen halten und geht allgemein sehr auf die Psychologie des Krieges und des Überlebens ein. Jedes Interview ist dabei vielschichtig und nimmt sich einen neuen Aspekt vor - und bemerkenswert, wie subtil Brooks den Schreibstil variieren kann.
Letztlich schildert WORLD WAR Z nicht den "normalen" Zombie-Suvival-Horror (sprich: eine Handvoll Überlebende gegen die wandelnden Toten, mit schwindenden Resourcen und internen Streitigkeiten), sondern macht die Zombie-Apokalypse GLOBAL.
Ich selbst halte WORLD WAR Z für eines DER definitiven Highlights dieses Zombie-Comebacks.
Genauso wie die ebenfalls sensationell gute Audiobook-Version (mit einem echten Staraufgebot, u.a. Henry Rollins, Mark Hamill und John Tutturo) ist WORLD WAR Z einfach ein intelligent gemachtes Vergnügen, bei dem sowohl Fans der Zombie-Apokalypse wie auch allgemein an Phantastik Interessierte auf ihre Kosten kommen werden. Selten wurde in der SF der Beinahe-Weltuntergang authentischer und detaillierter geschildert - und die zahlreichen Abhandlungen zu anderen Themen (z.B. wie Kriege ökonomisch und nicht militärisch gewonnen werden, welche Auswirkungen permanenter Kampf hat etc.) sind inspirierend geschrieben und einfach interessant präsentiert.
Alles in allem ein grandioses Buch - für alle Fans einschlägiger Bücher eine unbedingte Kaufempfehlung!
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Overall, ranging from paper quality to font size and reader experience, its a 5 out of 5.