We have a great deal of books, movies, TV shows, and video games that take place during the beginning and the height of a zombie outbreak. You know the meta: a mysterious outbreak begins somewhere, stores get looted, people run around in panic as zombies chase them. After the chaotic opening, the entire plot revolves around the height of the outbreak as the protagonist tries to survive.
But is there a zombie book that breaks this meta? A book that takes place after the outbreak after the zombies have decomposed, when the final zombies are just a few that can barely do anything except crawl on the ground or just stay on the ground. After so many people have died that the clan wars cease because there is now plenty of land and resources for anybody.
Think of it as a book that revolves around the psychological state of the protagonist after they pull themselves out of the height of the storm. With no constant danger to distract them, they are left to confront the things they lost. The shared trauma of humanity is so overwhelming that when two humans meet each other seeing another human for the first time in months while walking through desolate, corpsefilled streets they neither greet each other nor pull guns. They just walk past dismissively in apathy.
Or maybe the story could focus on the rebuilding efforts. I'm not sure.
by 0Realman0
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So not about the zombies themselves, but about the aftermath they leve behind.