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Seven years after a zombie apocalypse has transformed mankind into zombies, a nice zombie family struggles to adapt to the strange New Society.
SYNOPSIS:
ZOMBIED takes place in Provo, Utah, in the year 7 A.Z. (Anno Zombulus), seven years after a highly contagious zombie pandemic left sixty percent of mankind dead, with the survivors zombified. Five years after the outbreak, Homo Zombulus emerged from the mental fog of zombiedom, and although everyone still looks like your typical zombie - minus all the damage we’re used to seeing - most of their mental processes were reclaimed intact. Most, but not all. Lost were the emotional highs and lows of the human experience. Lost, too, were all tendencies toward violence and crime, greed, and ambition. Unfortunately, creativity, dreams, and sex drive never made it out of the fog, either.
The story is about four brothers - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Parsons - and their surviving family members, and how they try to adapt to the New Society with their new ways of looking at the world. Matthew, a professor of Philosophy at the University, is thrilled at the changes. No wars, no crimes, no hunger, no sickness, no monetary system… it’s a philosopher’s paradise. Mark, a gifted bio-chemist, sees the transformation as a biological nightmare, a genetic affliction that must be reversed. Luke is a psychiatrist, dedicated to helping his patients adjust to their new realities, and John is the city’s Sheriff, a vestigial job from an era when crime still existed.
The peaceful world of the New Society is dropped on its head when a picnicking couple is found murdered at a remote canyon. John is called in to investigate and eventually tracks down the shooters - Otis and Allison Herbert, now believed to be the last two human beings on the planet. John brings them in, explaining the new order of things. Prosecution of crimes is a thing of the past because crimes no longer exist, outside the double zombicide, which was to be considered a tragic misunderstanding. Mark convinces the Herberts to provide him with blood samples to help him with his research, only to discover that they are already infected. The Z-spore is not as dormant as had been believed. The Herberts are fully zombified within a day, but as he watches the destruction of their blood samples by the spore, Mark has a revelation.
Unsettled by Mark’s sudden optimism, Matthew takes his concerns to the Mayor. A decision is made to stop Mark’s research until adequate deliberation can occur. Mark does not take the news well, and disappears with his samples and lab equipment. The brothers, the Mayor, and several city councilmen finally locate Mark at the family cabin. When they open the door they find Mark standing there, naked but human, again! Amazement gives way to chaos when Mark launches himself like a brain-starved zombie at the Mayor, hissing and snarling, tackling him to the ground and tearing a hunk of flesh from the Mayor’s throat with his teeth.
Mark is placed in the Sheriff’s jail, where John can babysit him for the next five years to see what’s left when The Fog recedes.