Land Down Undead

by John E. Normal

Australia is a vast open country, blackened and decaying, and now more dangerous than it ever was. The population barely survived the first wave of the plague, then the rest of the world dumped their undead in Darwin. Soon after the entire country was crawling with flesh eating foreigners. Australia's citizens fled to New Zealand and Australia was left behind as the Land Down Undead.

Over the years the military have created a few safe zones and begun rebuilding the nation. The burgeoning zombie tourism industry is creating jobs to attract people to return home. Young backpackers want to see the undead up-close for themselves. It is the world's most sought out adventure holiday tour: from the beaches to the outback, drinking beer, getting laid and killing zombies. Whether you want to join a guided tour or go-it-alone, this backpacker's guidebook will show you everything the Land Down Undead has to offer.

Read more on the Land Down Undead website
http://www.landdownundead.com

70 pages, Paperback

First published September 20, 2012

Reviews

[Daniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Are you planning your next vacation? Then come visit the zombie infested country of Australia! The Land Down Undead is a very entertaining book, written as a travel guide book. It is a really great parody of how people advertise travels. Inside this book, your narrator John explains how the zombie plague started and how it later became a tourist attraction in Australia. While the book is written to have humor in it, I found that the book also has a critic on us as a society. I think the book is trying to tell us how if a zombie plague would happen, we would somehow take advantage of it, just to make some money. Our narrator John, comes off a changed person after the zombie plague. He becomes a tour guide in the zombie infested Australia. He makes jokes about how cool it is to kill things. It seems John has lost his mind. There is a part in the book that sticks out to me. There is a part where zombie government politics are still fighting with each other. I feel the author was trying to make a point here. Is he saying politics are like zombies?

In the end I did enjoy reading The Land Down Undead. It has humor,and zombie kills. It also felt like this really was a travel guide, and that I was reading this because I was interested in going there. I recommend this book to any zombie fan out there that is looking for humor. Fans of Zombieland will surely enjoy this book.

[Alexander Miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

if you can easily guess a salient context for the phrase 'firm breasted undead' then you probably wrote this book, just like John e normal. with a flurry of well deserved backhanded insults to various australian locales, normal manages to achieve a fancy ballet of classic croc-dundee blokey snipes and flippant gore-peddling. I found myself hoping the bus would take a quick detour to my home town in country NSW, just for the satisfaction of imagining my old adversaries being molotov'd and chainsawed. more please.. x