Playing God... of Zombies

19-Nov-08 at 7:40 PM
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One of the best things about writing fiction is that you are god. You can make the occupants of your stories dance like puppets on the strings of your whimsey. The down side is that when the strings of your whimsey are too long your puppets lie there dead gathering dust, or rotting a little...

Maybe the rotting is a good thing if your creating a story about zombies, which is what I'm trying to do, but the strings of my whimsey are still too long to get even old ratty corpselike puppets to shuffle around with any coherency, so I look to my excellent community of voxers for ideas.

If you were going to create a setting in which the dead rise up and bite the people you don't like, how would you justify it? Would it be a zombie disease? Alien invasion? Magical occurrence? Corporate experiment gone wrong? (or right..) Would there be anything peculiar about your zombies, humorous, frightening, grotesque... Personally I've always fancied the idea of unscrupulous individuals sewing zombie bits together Frankenstine-style to create grotesque monstrosities, I've just never been able to include that in an original setting.

So, how would you make your zombie puppets dance?

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How about corpses of people who ingested genetically altered food? The law of unintended consequences.

Yes, I'm with ancora impara. GE crops or cloned meat or something along those lines.

Parasites that meld with your brain/nerves and are able to control your body after you die? This could be cool because they could remain dormant while you're alive - you might never know if you'll turn into a zombie until after you die.

I also like the "corporate (or military) experiment gone right" - attempt to make volunteers or unwitting subjects mindless/brainless, trainable automatons for a job/soldier, only to find out that they are co-opted by an evil plotter and/or set upon humans by some twist of fate...

not sure about the humourus thing within a zombie set up, all I ve seen where these two go along did not sound right.

ancora and red pen s idea I like...

then again, you could get together the corporate experiment & the magical experience...

oh dear, I'm not too good at sci fi

oh, I wanted to say, yesterday, and forgot again:

I LOVE this banner of yours!

Thanks. The banner is going to be the cover of a book from my favorite RPG series. I thought it captured the "flights of fantasy" look well.

Playing God... of Zombies

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