Urban Survival
 
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Exciting news. We have launched our Urban Survival Podcast. 

Currently, we have done a soft release with Episode 0 as an introductory urban survival episode. The full show will  not begin till February 1st 2011. After that shows will be released on a weekly basis.

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Just about a year ago closest friend insisted I read World War Z by Max Brooks. At the outset I had been extremely averse. Zombie type material really wasn’t my thing. Soon after much goading, I came around and bought a copy. A section into it and I was not able to put Wold War Z down; I had become hooked. Shortly afterwards, I rushed through several other related books. What ultimately infatuated me about Zombie Apocalypse fiction was the likeness amongst real world situations and what a variety of writers such as Max Brooks were churning out. Finally it struck me the reason why such large numbers of people in and around survival communities often had an interest in Zombie Apocalypse Fiction and would often proclaim crazy expressions such as, “When the Zombie Apocalypse comes.” I now have an understanding of that for them, and these days for me personally, Zombies became a metaphor.

If you merely supplant Zombie Apocalypse with financial failure, pandemic, or natural disaster you would probably still have practically the very same experience. This is why Zombie Fiction renders such a compelling metaphor for modern-day survival, and particularly Urban Survival. It does not matter if we are debating about undead hordes or rioting mobs, the basics are all the same. It has become a method for several people to share the same essential idea about two apparently different topics of survival.

The euphemism of Zombies makes having a conversation a little less complicated. It’s far easier to say, “When the Zombies Apocalypse comes” and sound like a dork than it is to say, “When X happens” and sound like a tin foil hat-wearing nut. We can theorize about it, play with it, and it’s all in jest. Hypothesizing about real life situations that can come about is far more difficult. You eliminate the sentiment from the dialogue when you’re talking euphemistically.


Zombie Apocalypse Fiction gives modern Survivalists the opportunity to get close to their concerns without touching them downright. It’s one thing to browse a horrific tale about Zombies becoming the dominant species and mankind caught in a war for our very existence. It is quite another to read a narrative about the collapse of a country and its citizens engulfed in a struggle for their existence. When you close the Zombie novel, the battle is over or at least paused. It’s easy to state, “That could never happen” and dismiss the tale adequate to sleep with ease. This is much tougher to do when the scenario is nearer to home. In the end, Zombie Fiction enables the readers to venture through a hypothetical series of scenarios without having the concern of getting eaten by them.