So Now You’re a Zombie: A Handbook for the Newly Undead and Humour: A Book Review

Author: John Austin.

Reviewed By Ed Sum

There’s plenty of information available to the masses to warn of the zombie pandemic and how to survive it. But there’s always the one overlooked question—just what happens if you become the zombie and the tables have turned?

Just don’t ask Max Brooks, author of Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z. He’s rooting for the humans. Sadly, there’s no one supporting the new race, the new credo of those that’ll inherit the earth. That’s all changed with John Austin (author of Miniweapons of Mass Destruction) penning So Now You’re a Zombie, A Handbook for the Newly Undead.

For the uninitiated to the land of the brain dead, this published work reads like a children’s illustrated book and it all written in fun, to educate readers of what life must be like as a zombie. There’s plenty of visual guides for one to digest and if the reader is one who’s just slowly succumbing to the madness of zombieitus, the book is a quick read before infection sets in.

Once the reader becomes a full on zombie, the only memory they’ll retain are those that have been set in life—that mundane job which makes many readers no better than what they’ve become and that last trace memory of what was read. With luck, this book will serve everyone well. It has all the information needed to keep a zombie alive and kicking.

The ultimate question is will the information be retained? Austin writes this piece with tongue-in-cheek humour and there’s enough information to even give a zombie a headache.The only one problem one can find here is that cooperation will never happen between mankind and zombiekind. After all, why can’t everyone be friends? Shaun in Shaun of the Dead could do it, and why can’t you?

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John Austin Books

The book is reasonably priced and available through Amazon:



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