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Pride & Prejudice & Zombies made waves when it came out. I read a friend's copy; it replaced wit with slapstick. The idea was better than the execution.

Other authors followed up on PPZ. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. Mansfield Park and Mummies (which I am currently reading). Emma and the Werewolves. Each by a different author which means that I should not assume that shoddy work in one implies shoddy work in the others.

I knew the undead had invaded Austen. At some point they invaded other classic works as well, for here is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim. The Undead World of Oz: L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Complete with Zombies and Monsters. Robin Hood and Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers. The War of the Worlds plus Blood, Guts and Zombies.

Yes, really.

At first, the large Google Chrome advertising campaign on the Underground bothered by because of inconsistent period use: "A new, fast browser. Made for everyone" I know, the second "sentence" is a tag line, the phrases pivoting around that central period. But that lack of a second period annoyed me at first.

Now I just ridicule them whenever I encounter them for the modest number of tabs they boast of using. 12. 14. 21. If I've made it down to a mere 21 tabs, then I have almost nothing open anymore. (I know, I have a tab problem, but they're so very useful for retaining announcement and pages for followup in a place where I won't forget and lose them.)

They're advertising at "normal" browser use, presumably, but if PR campaign for a web browser really wanted to capture my attention with an ad campaign, it would boast of the ease with which it handles hundreds of tabs.