Horror
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Told as a collection of interviews gathered years after a global zombie plague, this novel lets survivors from many countries describe how it began, how governments failed and how humanity fought back.
- First published
- 2006
- Pace
- Medium
- Length
- Medium
- Pages
- 354
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you like zombie stories that read like a global history, with variety across places and voices.
Skip this if you want one central hero or a single driving plot, since it's a mosaic of accounts.
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