![]() ![]() Read our complete interview with Seanan McGuire below, in which she explains how a virus can reanimate a corpse, why the Defense Department has a real-life zombie contingency plan, and how hookworms can be good for you. “After about the 17th time,” says McGuire, “I called and said, ‘If I did this, this, this, this, this, this and this, could I raise the dead?’ And got, ‘Don’t … don’t do that.’ And at that point, I knew I had a viable virus.” ![]() Still, it took more than a dozen calls to work out the details of her zombie contagion. Fortunately, the receptionist recognized McGuire as the author of “ The Black Death” - a folk song about the devastating plague that hit Europe in the 1300s - and offered to put her in touch with the experts. Initially the people at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were unsure how to field questions on a zombie virus. The first two books - published under the pen name Mira Grant - were nominated for the Hugo award. ![]()
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