“What disturbs me is I smashed his mouth off, I
smashed his teeth in, but he still wanted to continue in the attack
mode. I was terrified at [its] resilience.”
This gory description could have been one of many zombie survivor stories from the novel World War Z,
but it’s actually a man’s factual description the tenacity of a rabid
raccoon he beat to death with a hammer in the non-fiction book Rabid. Many people are familiar with Max Brooks’ 2006 best-seller World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (soon to be a film starring Brad Pitt), a novel about a global pandemic. People are probably less familiar with the 2012 non-fiction book by Wired Senior Editor Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy, Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus 9 (a 5,000 word excerpt can be found here). If Rabid walks us through humanity’s two thousand year history of trying (and failing) to cure this horrifying disease, World War Z shows us what the consequences of failing could be.
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