In one novel, Mark Spitz struggles to fight these creatures as a member of Omega Unit. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these creatures targeted by “sweepers” in Zone One. Max Brooks fictionalized himself as the author of a “survival guide” regarding these creatures in an “oral history” of a war involving them.
ANSWER: zombies [or skels]
[10h] This author of Zone One called Max Brooks’s World War Z his “comfort read”. This author’s first novel follows the ideological split on elevator inspection between the “Empiricist” school and the title “Intuitionists.”
ANSWER: Colson Whitehead [or Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead]
[10e] Whitehead stated that his foray into zombie fiction was partly a result of reading this author in junior high. This horror author’s novel Carrie made Whitehead want to be a writer.
ANSWER: Stephen King [or Stephen Edwin King]
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