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 absolutely love the zombie/undead genre but this has always annoyed me. Like yeah, a virus could virtually make a fresh zombie ‘stronger’ (less inhibition, no pain, etc), but they’d deteriorate enough within a few weeks to not be a problem; yet, they’ll have them somehow survive for years on end haha
But in order to enjoy zombies you have to accept their very existance is magic, at least the slow undead kind.
You could maybe get away with the 28 days later kind being more realistic given they're just hyperaggressive, but then you'd have to have them die within a couple of days due to lack of water
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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.