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          <body><![CDATA[I spelled it that way because the creatures in my book are not traditional zombies. The virus-like plague that creates them is called Agent X because it strikes women first, targeting the X chromosome--hence they are Xombies.  They are also called Maenads, Exes (as in ex-humans), and Furies.]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[I've owned this book for a long time, but I never could bring myself to read it until now. Melville is a lover of technical details (in this case, the details of crewing a Man-of-War), so to appreciate him, you have to allow him to sell you on the subject, something I've resisted since plodding thro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76461448">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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