![]() ![]() In this new classic of apocalyptic fiction that feels all too real, the Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. ![]() Original cast members include Alan Alda, Mark Hamill, Carl & Rob Reiner, and John Turturro. The original abridged edition, released in 2006, won an Audie Award for Best Multi-Voiced Performance. New narrators include Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese, Spiderman star Alfred Molina, The Walking Dead creator Frank Darabont, rapper Common, Firefly star Nathan Fillion, Shaun of the Dead’s Simon Pegg, and members of the casts of Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes and more! Max Brooks will be reprising his role as The Interviewer. These additional episodes feature a star-studded cast of narrators to coincide with the upcoming release of the film. The abridged versions of the original stories are now joined with new, unabridged recordings of the episodes that were not included in the original (abridged) version of the audiobook. World War Z: The Complete Edition (Movie Tie-in Edition): An Oral History of the Zombie War is a new version of Max Brooks’ episodic zombie novel. This is action-packed social-political satire with a global view.” - Dallas Morning News “Probably the most topical and literate scare since Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds radio broadcast. “Will grab you as tightly as a dead man’s fist. “Possesses more creativity and zip than entire crates of other new fiction titles. “Will spook you for real.” - The New York Times Book Review THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z is the only record of the pandemic. “Prepare to be entranced by this addictively readable oral history of the great war between humans and zombies.”- Entertainment Weekly. ![]()
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