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PLIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD What Real-Life Zombies Reveal About Our Worldand Ourselves

by | Read by Holter Graham

Contemporary Culture • 6.5 hrs. • Unabridged • © 2018

Zombies are real? Narrator Holter Graham talks about movie monsters at first, for comic effect, but science writer Matt Simon has found some real-life zombies in nature. Parasites--wasps, worms, fungi--often have properties that take control of their hosts in ways similar to what listeners have seen in movies and on TV. There's a creepy cheerfulness in Graham's voice as he tells listeners how a jewel wasp takes over a roach to host its offspring, for example. It's both humorous and horrifying. Some listeners may even feel sympathy for the roach. The stories of nature's cruelty--another example is how a beautiful butterfly spreads its wings at the expense of ants--are as fascinating as they are frightening. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2018]

Trade Ed. • Penguin Audio • 2018

DD ISBN 9780525641100 $15.00

 

Library Ed. • Books on Tape • 2018

DD ISBN 9780525641117 $57.00

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