Zombies vs. Unicorns!

Posted on by scott

In case you haven’t been following the zombie-versus-unicorn thread on the internets, it has come to a mighty climax with the announcement of:

The Zombie Versus Unicorn Anthology! A collection of zombie and unicorn short stories to settle the issue for good, co-edited by Justine Larbalestier (aka, my Justine) and the fabulous Holly Black.

Justine is, of course, the head of Team Zombie, and Holly is the head of Team Unicorn.

Here’s Justine’s announcement of it, and here’s Holly’s.

Stay tuned for an amusing video on this subject.

But first, some appearance news: Justine and I will be in Austin, Texas this Wednesday night, at the awesome bookstore known as BookPeople.

Wednesday, Nov 19
7:30 PM
BookPeople
603 N. Lamar
Austin, TX 78703
512-472-5050
800-853-9757
Click here for more.

And the next night, Justine will be appearing at a Barnes & Noble in San Antonio.

Thursday, November 20
7:00PM
Barnes & Noble
Northwoods Shopping Center
18030 HWY 281NSuite #140
San Antonio, TX 78232
210-490-0411

Hope to see you there!

And now, a short video from Lauren Myracle, she of the Scare-a-thon and (sadly) a member of Team Unicorn.

Let the battle continue!

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361 thoughts on “Zombies vs. Unicorns!”

  1. Wow, Faith-la. Who would ever want to be YOUR friend.
    Obviously Zombies are better. Who wouldn’t want to be undead?

  2. uhhh.
    i am un-dead.
    you would want to be ugly and uninviting?
    i mean your arms could break off from being so old.
    and no one wants to be around you.
    and zombies are only in existance for necrophiliac’s.
    [that means alive people like to sleep with dead people]
    but unicorns are so inviting.
    youd just want to be with them.
    and youd never know your about to be horned to death.
    i would rather on my death certificate say
    Cause of death: Horned by a Unicorn
    than
    Cause of death: Zombie at head then tore body apart.
    yeah.

  3. O..m…westerfeldism.

    Horned by a Unicorn? (Dies of laughter..good thing I’ma zombie..and the undead!)

    But when you’re a Zombie you’re also like a vampire, and human brain good

  4. see i can make you die!
    and no vampires are “easy on the eyes”
    zombies are ewwwy and gross.
    vampires never died, they just are extra-non-human.
    zombies died and somehow came back.
    plus they are cannibals.
    which is disgusting.
    i mean canabalism IS frowned apon on many societies.
    there ARE reasons for that you know.

  5. Cannibalism good. Eat people yum.

    I’m un-dead so you CAN’T make me die AND When you can live forever, what do you live for?

    (cannibalism of course!)

  6. “But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”

    (oh snap.)

  7. no.
    gross.
    i know people are idiots but i would never EAT one.
    i would be afraid i’d catch thier idiocity.

    and if you weren’t un-dead*cough*i choke on your lies*cough* you would be dead.

    and no!
    zombies are naturally on this earth so necro’s don’t feel alone and zombies feel wanted.

    it’s the natural order of things.
    duh.

  9. they are bad it’s just uni-corns are better.
    i mean i would rather face a zombie than a uni-corn.
    cause the zombie is slow and i could stick it in th heart.
    but uni-corns are fast and furious.
    so therefore uni-corns are better.

    (*coughhewantsyoucough*)

  10. (*cougheverybodydoescough*)

    With unicorns all you have to do is get a tranquilizer dart and stick them with it. There are several ways to do this. One of which is described in Specials.

  11. (*coughgoodjokecough*)
    uhm…
    not if they are evil.
    youd be dead by that time.
    cause like i said.
    they’ll lure you in with thier amazing-ness.
    and BAM!
    not expecting that huh?
    didn’t think so.
    yeah and you can never tell the bad uni’s from the good.
    ALL zombies are bad.

  12. Well, if i’m a zombie I won’t be able to see their amazingness.
    Oooh my horoscope said (*coughgosuckitfaithcough*)

  14. doesnt matter.
    youd want to eat it so youd go over.
    and before you knew it you’re horned.
    and nates not gonna help.
    he probably as much a creeper as you.
    (*coughdontbejealouscough*)

  15. (*coughnotacreeperjustjasonisandit’snotmyfaultweallmakemistakesLIKEYOMAMA!!*)
    and zombies only eat humans.

  16. omg, if you don’t agree that zombies are better, then you’re obviously just jealous and are forced to worship you stupid little unicorns because we won’t let you join us!

  18. (*coughdontdenyyourtrueidentityitsnotfaircough*)

    and what if they are in the middle of no where with nothing to eat but uni’s?
    i would say they’d eat one.
    or try at least.
    or maybe it’s a vegiterian.
    ever think of that?
    i think NOT!

  22. What?
    lost how?
    ABout the zane thing? Just ignore it and stay AWAY from spoiler zones.
    and nevermind the number dood man we like just randomly do things here.
    Thats what Westerfeldism is about.
    (Westerfeldism is a religion)(now)

  23. oh and nate-wa:
    zombies are icky.
    (like your face, but lets not get into that)
    and why would i be jeslous of ANYTHING like that?
    uni-corns live long enough.
    who wants to live forever looking/smelling like a zombie?
    fer real.

  24. oh, wait…nvm…what if there just so happens to be a vegetarian restaurant/nounicornsallowedbecausethey arestupid,pointless,weak,andjealousofzombies café in this “middle of nowhere?”

  25. omg, faith-laa, have you seen I Am Legend? (no racial comments, puh-lease) not all zombies are decomposing robots that can only do what their basic instincts of survival tell them to do. they have brains, they can be powerful!

  26. and come on.
    i am legend they arent zombies you idiot.
    they’re more vampires than anything.
    duh!
    everyone who has a BRAIN knows that.
    you should look into it.

  29. actually, i fail to see how they ARENT zombies. just because your dissalusioned into thinking that they were vampires just because they had a major allergy to sunlight considering the mutation in the virus that infected 99.99% of the nation!

  30. and why would there be a zombie cafe anywhere?
    and if there was i guess he’d go there.
    common sense.
    i thought egyptions were supposed to be smart.

  31. man my computer sucks. Internet. gah. and uhhh..h…ohkay
    and the creatures in I am Legend (which nate-la stared in) were ZOMBIES because they ate the whole being not just the blood.

  33. Oh, I’d like to point out that Faith-la, Nate-wa and myself are all friends. So like, we’re not being malicious(completely)

  34. but they never DIED!
    zombies dont have blood er whatever.
    they dont need thier organs.
    but the VAMPIRES need that junk.

  35. my internet sucks too. but yeah, i did star in I am Legend, so i think i would know. and faith-laa, im not sure who you were talking about being in the middle of nowhere…and my mom agrees that unicorns SUCK…its a long story

  36. And the I am legend thing isn’t what we REALLY should be discussing, just the basic things about zombies. because as we know the aliens came down and scrambled our brains so that way there we wouldn’t be able to pick out the zombies/vampires/specials/faires easily.

  37. and any one who didn’t cooperate got beamed up and then eaten by zombies, while all the unicorns were locked up in cages because they can’t wash themselves.

  38. you really need to look up zombies more before you start to diss them faith. the only good thing about unicorns is that they are not as awesome as zombies.

  39. and i know.
    nates a creeper,
    just like yourself,
    who obsesses over things like world domination and all that junk.
    and obsses over books and things only creepers obsses about.

  40. didnt you know? zombies were created by god so that there would be something so we could ask ourselves “what would a unicorn do” and then do the opposite

  41. Good night and a due.
    I’m right.
    Faith’s wrong.
    It’s just the way the universe works.
    (Like the fact that Scott-la is an alien who escaped the evil wrath of the zombies and told us about the future through many great books. There are several versions of the future ’cause the aliens/zombies keep going back in time and messing around. Stupid aliens/zombies)
    Deal with it.

  42. (good one nate)
    (and faith, you just dissed like ALL the people who comment on here. Including yourself. So all of your statements for unicorns are now void.)

  43. conformists.
    unicorns are awsome.
    you can:
    ride them.
    pet them.
    brush them.
    kill with them.
    play with them.
    love them.
    use them for world domintion.
    show them off to others.
    take the to school.
    you know the usual.
    not zombies.

  45. well we’re not talking about monkey zombies no are we?
    and now im going because im right and your an idiot.
    and sadly i have to see you at school.
    i get enough of your annoying-ness there.

  47. dude, are u kiding me, zombies are so much better then unicorns.Zombies end up takeing over the world, and killing everyone in sight. What do unicorns do?!?!?! Zombies are dead cannibals that start attacking you if they see you. Then if their the ones from Dawn of the dead, they run. WTF dude, that is flipping scary. IDK, go read the Zombie survival guide, and World War Z, u will learn a lot more. And how messed up they actually are. but yeah what does a unicorn actually do. just prounce around with thier lil horn. and eat hay all day. wow. scary. a zombie is decaying and it eats flesh!?!?! u tell me which is scarier

  48. whatever zack-LA.
    its not about whos SCARIER.
    its about whos BETTER.
    and i think evil uni-corns are bagillions times better.
    i mean good uni-corns are good.
    but they searve no purpose.
    but they are pretty.
    and i dont know what your guyses obsession about zombies is about.
    but like i said.
    who wants to be around a decaying gross smelly ewwy zombie?
    not me.

  49. Uni-corns are the buuilding blocks of fun, they represent magic and the ability to believe in the impossible (the good imposible) unlike Zombies because zombies are just a way for the government to make us be fearful and keep us in line. SO Uni corn are freaking amazing zombies look like decomposed retards ( or decomposed nates) and they are all like MAAAA and if you hit them hard enough there head fall off. AND they can talk or use mind control or read minds or any of the things like uni-corns can do. yea. AND zombies are only seen on halloween but unicorns are subliminally messaged in to our brains by big corporations that are the good kind and not the ones that want to take over the world!!!!
    PLUS nate-wa liking zombies doesn’t make sense since ur a veg.
    ~~~Nate-wa:Vegetarian
    ~~~~Zombies:Carnivore
    So obviously nate-wa should be against zombies….just like hes against me for being a carnivore,….but other then that Jay-wa is just crazy and Zack Attack is stupid because he took my nick name for him (which is Zack Attack) and Faith la and I are freaking amazing so thats why Unicorns are way better and always will be….

  50. Well, for those of us that WANT to rule the world and make the government into Prettism, then zombies are good for keeping miscreants in line.

    Personally, I want a hoverboard not some horse with a horn.

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