Zombies got their teeth into me way back in high school when I caught George Romero’s classic 1968 Night of the Living Dead on cable, soon followed by a midnight showing of Romero’s 1978 Dawn of the Dead. I was bitten, and I got the zombie bug bad.
In the intervening years, I’ve spent an embarrassing number of hours watching the undead stumble around on screens big and little alike, and by and large I have enjoyed every minute of it – even the schlockiest of the schlock. But one nit that continuously picked at me was the thought that pretty much every zombie movie or show immediately (or almost immediately) advances to the apocalypse phase. Civilization falls, supplies run low, humans turn against humans – bang-bang, blah-blah, lights out, End of Times.
What bothered me (and what inspired this site) was the thought that, what if zombies weren’t the cause of immediate societal collapse but were just part of the hostile background environment of our world along with many other potential causes of death and mayhem, like rabies or coronavirus or drunk drivers or choking hazards. What if society didn’t collapse and we all just had to go about living our lives with the undead as just one of the many daily threats to our well-being?
If we lived in that kind of world, surely there would be scientists studying zombies and the zombie virus(es), as well as various aspects of society, public policy and popular culture as they relate to zombies. And in that world, those scientists would need a journal – a bulletin, if you will – where they could share their findings and learn about other developments in the world of the undead. That was the inspiration for this thing you see before you now, The Bulletin of the Zombie Scientists.
So consider yourself invited to join an exploration of this world where zombies are a thing, but not the thing that ends civilization as we know it. The writings here will sometimes be amusing, sometimes include Romeroesque winks at social commentary, and always will be just whatever comes out of my head on a given day as I give voice to my inner zeke.
I hope you enjoy, and if you do, please like/share/follow. Comment, but please keep it civil and constructive. Topic suggestions welcome, too, although I might not be able to get to every suggestion that comes into the box.
Thank you for reading!
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