When a meteor carrying the Zombie virus hits Earth it triggers the potential end of mankind. The last chance for humanity is the spacecraft full of Alien scientists tasked with tracking the interstellar virus, one that has wiped out many other planets. "A movie for the eyes and a treat for the imagination." - Fandom Post "Read it right now! Seriously, right now." - Project-Nerd "Aliens vs. Zombies is fun, plain and simple." - SnapPow

The Aliens have arrived... They are draining the life out of everything and conventional weapons don't work. Sidney, a call support center rep, is tasked with finding Sam, the leader of the zombies, Earth's only chance of defeating the invasion. That's the easy part. Convincing him to fight, on the other hand, is going to take a miracle because the ultimate price of defeating the aliens is the death of the zombies. Can Sidney help Sam reconnect with his lost humanity and find a reason to fight? And even if she can do that, the aliens won't go down easily. It will take humans working with zombies to defeat the invasion. Can Sidney convince the leaders of humanity and zombiekind to put aside their distrust and work together to defeat the aliens? If she doesn't, life as we know it will end.

The newly expanded and revised edition of The Hollywood War Machine includes wide-ranging exploration of numerous popular military-themed films that have appeared in the close to a decade since the first edition was published. Within the Hollywood movie community, there has not been even the slightest decline in well-financed pictures focusing on warfare and closely-related motifs. The second edition includes a new chapter on recent popular films and another that analyzes the relationship between these movies and the bourgeoning gun culture in the United States, marked in recent years by a dramatic increase in episodes of mass killings.

Get the story of the mulchifying super hit Plants vs. Zombies™ from the zombies' point of view. Part zombie memoir, part celebration of zombie triumphs, and part antiplant screed, this treasure trove of never-before-seen concept art covers Plants vs. Zombies, Plants vs. Zombies 2, Plants vs. Zombies Adventures, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, and more! * Part art book—part zombie memoir! * Eighty-eight pages of "behind-the-leaves" material! * The original Plants vs. Zombies game has been installed over 100 million times and has 16 million active users!

Parenting is difficult under the best of circumstances--but extremely daunting when humanity faces cataclysmic annihilation. When the dead rise, hardship, violence and the ever-present threat of flesh-eating zombies will adversely affect parents and children alike. Depending on their age, children will have little chance of surviving a single encounter with the undead, let alone the unending peril of the Zombie Apocalypse. The key to their survival--and thus the survival of the species--will be the caregiving they receive. Drawing on psychological theory and real-world research on developmental status, grief, trauma, mental illness, and child-rearing in stressful environments, this book critically examines factors influencing parenting, and the likely outcomes of different caregiving techniques in the hypothetical landscape of the living dead.

Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile reaches beyond American fiction to reveal a spectrum of Jewish imagination. The chapters in this collection cover speculative works by Jewish artists and about Jewish characters from a broad range of national contexts, including post-Holocaust Europe, the Soviet Union, Israel, South America, French Canada, and the Middle East. The contributors consider various media including novels, short stories, film, YouTube videos, and fanfiction. Essays explore topics ranging from the ancient Jewish kingdom of Khazaria to modern university classes and the revival of Yiddish to the breadth of LGBTQ+ representation. For scholars and fans alike, this collection of essays will provide new perspectives on Jewish presences in speculative fiction around the world.

Steven Williams is a normal teenager. He makes great grades, and is proud of that. One simple day he and his best friend get an invitation in the mail. This one piece of paper will change their entire high school experience.

The author writes this book out of her experience with a few NRI friends, the stretch of imagination and also a bit of concern for the NRI child. The book is about the NRI teen, Donald Goswami, who had a comfortable and happy life at US along with his friends and hobbies. At 13 years of age, Goswami happened to shift to India suddenly because of his fathers change in employment. Goswami, being brought up and stayed in US for quite a long time had lot of apprehension to come back to India and face various challenges. After coming back to India, he had to overcome the change in the school environment, attitude of teachers, friends and relatives. Every day and every step initially was a challenge to him and he had to face it with lot of patience especially in teen age. But due to his strong will power, moral support of his mother and a few good friends he overcame all the challenges. Goswami wrote the happenings in a diary. Readers, let us see what are the challenges Goswami has to face, how he overcame it and was he happy and comfortable in the end.

A fascinating read for anyone from general readers to hardcore fans and scholars, this encyclopedia covers virtually every aspect of the zombie as cultural phenomenon, including film, literature, folklore, music, video games, and events. The proliferation of zombie-related fiction, film, games, events, and other media in the last decade would seem to indicate that zombies are "the new vampires" in popular culture. The editors and contributors of Encyclopedia of the Zombie: The Walking Dead in Popular Culture and Myth took on the prodigious task of covering all aspects of the phenomenon, from the less-known historical and cultural origins of the zombie myth to the significant works of film and literature as well as video games in the modern day that feature the insatiable, relentless zombie character. The encyclopedia examines a wide range of significant topics pertaining to zombies, such as zombies in the pulp magazines; the creation of the figure of the zuvembie to subvert decades of censorship by the Comics Code of Authority; Humans vs. Zombies, a popular zombie-themed game played on college campuses across the country; and annual Halloween zombie walks. Organized alphabetically to facilitate use of the encyclopedia as a research tool, it also includes entries on important scholarly works in the expanding field of zombie studies.

From automatons to zombies, many elements of fantasy and science fiction have been cross-pollinated with the Western movie genre. In its second edition, this encyclopedia of the Weird Western includes many new entries covering film, television, animation, novels, pulp fiction, short stories, comic books, graphic novels and video and role-playing games. Categories include Weird, Weird Menace, Science Fiction, Space, Steampunk and Romance Westerns.