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World War Z Facts
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Max Brooks wrote World War Z using his previous book, The Zombie Survival Guide, as a guide. This fact gives us a few extra bits of information about Brooks's zombie universe. For example, the zomb...
Steaminess Rating
PGThe characters of World War Z put a lot of thought and energy into fighting the zombie swarm and rebuilding society, but they put almost no thought into how they're going repopulate the planet. S...
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Literary and Philosophical ReferencesKarl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (2.1.24), (8.4.15), (9.2.8)—when a character comments about "the opiate/opium of the...