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Shameless Self Promotion

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Ok Guys, Looks like the cover art for my novel is out……and it looks pretty snazzy…..

LAST STAND ON ZOMBIE ISLAND

Christopher Eger

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Original limitations:

• Unlimited trade paperback.

• 26 signed and lettered hardcovers.

• eBook

WELCOME TO THE END OF THE WORLD!

Disease-K has decimated the world leaving its victims shambling homicidal maniacs. And nestled along the warm Gulf waters sits Gulf Shores…the last outpost of civilization. With looters and thieves preying on the shocked survivors, it’s up to the retirees and bank tellers, phone repairmen and charterboat captains to put the town back together.

THE SHADOWS ARE GATHERING OUTSIDE OF TOWN!

There, in the sands and marshes of the Gulf of Mexico, the citizens of Gulf Shores along with scattered military units, a downed Air Force pilot, and a lone Coast Guard cutter form the last line of defense against the amassing horde of the infected marching its way toward the sea destroying what is left of humanity along the way.

As summer gives way to the fall and the cold winds blow off the sea, Gulf Shores draws the line and prepares to make the…

THE LAST STAND ON ZOMBIE ISLAND!

Available in May/June.

Post Apocalyptic Housing Options

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The turtle carries his home on his back. But the turtle’s needs are simpler than ours – he doesn’t depend on electricity, for example, or get sick when he lacks access to filtered water.

Designer Domaretskii Volodymer’s Mobile Life Container Concept is, essentially, a turtle shell for humans, containing just about everything your average Joe or Jane needs to get by, come the Zombie-pocalypse.

Home design for the zombie-pocalypseAs you might imagine, Volodymer’s concept design calls for something a little bigger than a turtle shell – it calls, in fact, for a structure that requires a semi to haul it. But this is no McMansion on wheels. 

It is, rather, whatever your civilization-on-the-move might happen to need, be it a home, hospital or school.

Volodymer’s Mobile Multifunctional Modules (assembled within the Mobile Life Container) fit together in different ways with different facades, offering a range of layouts suitable for different living and work structures.

Whatever the function chosen for the modules, the Mobile Life Container provides juice for basic human life functions (appliances, telecommunications, Angry Birds) via a series of lightweight, flexible solar panels and a handy wind turbine that goes up on top like a flagpole.

Anti-Zombie Warclub/slingshot

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Jorge Sprave, the oddball and heavily accented Slingshot channel guy, makes some pretty oddball looking stuff. This includes slingshots that fire 38mm 750-gram (1.5-pound cannon balls), shrapnel slingshots, et al. If you watch the video with him shooting 8mm-38mm stainless steel balls into ballistic gelatin he is getting something like 30-40cm of penetration…which is pretty respectable.

Here is a warclub/industrial slingshot that he made for, of course, Zombie Applications, with head ejector. It actually seems to have a lot of potential.

Common Myths to Debunk Before a Zombie War

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Things I fear the most:  spiders, walking sticks (bugs), and zombies.  While I know how to deal with the first two threats, I must constantly study how to off a zombie before I become one.  Yet, the hardest part of studying good tactics for a zombie war is that it hasn’t happened yet; there is no comparison to base how one would destroy these creatures.  The only thing we have to prepare ourselves for a possible zombie war is sound logic.  That’s when it becomes necessary to debunk the myths that many horror movies show, however, make no sense when you are really thrust into a world of zombies and survival.  So here are the most basic myths that should be dismissed:

Sadly, they both missed the online blowout Christmas specials.

MYTH:  Zombies run as fast as humans, if not faster.

Well, no and yes.  Unlike the movies, when a zombie is first turned they undergo a stage when their bodies physically die.  Immediately after the death occurs the zombie suffers rigor mortis (a stiffening of joints and muscles) for the first few days until the muscles eventually return to a permanently altered state.  The ability to run down or slowly slide to a living person depends on the state of the zombie before they were changed.  If a person was a runner before being changed then they will most likely be a good runner in the undead realm, if not better.  The reason I say that zombie might now be a better runner is that muscle fatigue will no longer affect the body.  Therefore, the ability to feel no pain will keep the zombie running until the living person is devoured, moves from the sensory range of the zombie, or until the muscles eventually shred themselves to pieces.

Yet, the chances of meeting a sprinting zombie are as slim as meeting a triathlon neighbor in today’s society.  Luckily, this is the rare moment when I would actually thank America for being out of shape.  Yet, the flip side of this is that based on America’s low health scores many of us wouldn’t even be able to out-walk a zombie without overly frequent rest stops.  This brings me to my next point….