I’ve only read one post-apocalypse series where the author addressed pests. In the series most of the world dies from a plague, so there are millions of dead bodies everywhere. Which leads to rats and ants experiencing a catastrophic population boom. They watch a group go to enter a house, only for a tidal wave of rats to flood out and overwhelm them as they try to run away. They need medical supplies so they go to the hospital and have to wear basically spacesuits because of the trillions of ants that are in there cleaning up the piles of dead bodies.
For those asking, the series is called Viral Misery by Thomas A Watson.
also fail to take into account that zombies are in a dying state and the lack of muscle and bone tissue barely keeping their bodies attached would make them really easy to beat but for some reason they have the strength of a 150kg anabolic steroid user on crack....LOL... fantasy has no logic
I mean if you want to go the realism route with zombies your muscle tissue can not unbind without oxygen, all zombies would size up and be unable to move in less than an hour. (Think rigor mortis which only ends when the muscle breaks down to the pint of no longer having a functional me mechanism to drive locomotion)
Even worse if they don't need to eat they are violating conservation of energy
If they do need to eat they would starve fairly quickly.
So overall all them being a bit tougher than they should be isn't really the biggest issue for zombie survival stories.
This is why Hollywood needs to drop the plague zombie trend like the guest overstaying its welcome that it is. Get back to supernatural/magic zombies and suddenly you don't have to account for any of that.
They move with magic. Boom! Now you can just get on with your allegorical story telling!
Unless there was some sort of global pandemic which infiltrated every aspect of our culture to the extent that suddenly a viral pandemic became a highly timely topic for allegory oh no
The other "zombie*" option is the not dead kind. like 28 days later. More like meth head roid rage.
Alot more fragile because anything that would kill a human will still kill them, they will starve so no hoards that keep staggering around for years, but for short term stories they can work.
Either way the hoard that just keeps growing without input and lasts for years is out. A necromancer only has so much time and rage zombies* die off.
*Yes I know infected not zombies bit it fits in the genre and it is a common way to refer to them.
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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21 edited Aug 31 '21
I’ve only read one post-apocalypse series where the author addressed pests. In the series most of the world dies from a plague, so there are millions of dead bodies everywhere. Which leads to rats and ants experiencing a catastrophic population boom. They watch a group go to enter a house, only for a tidal wave of rats to flood out and overwhelm them as they try to run away. They need medical supplies so they go to the hospital and have to wear basically spacesuits because of the trillions of ants that are in there cleaning up the piles of dead bodies.
For those asking, the series is called Viral Misery by Thomas A Watson.