Zombies. People seem to have really fallen in love with the genre in the past few years. I remember watching both Resident Evil AND Shaun of the Dead the same night at our local theater, and then dragging my husband back to watch it AGAIN. I was at the edge of my seat during 28 Days Later (though I was partly watching to catch a glimpse of our newest Doctor…Christopher Eccelston! Yes, he had a role in that movie). Since then, I’ve become a bit zombie’d out, even annoyed. I haven’t read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies yet because, well, I don’t think even zombies can liven up that yawn-o-rama. Of course, it’s shows like The Walking Dead that restore my faith in zombie culture (and books like The Passage).
But what if zombies were real?
Brooklyn artist Ward Shelley has illustrated a 54” x 30” timeline entitled “The History of Science Fiction” covering literature, movies and television. The piece was created in 2009, and begins with the circumstances leading to the birth of science fiction, all the way to what Shelley refers to as Mainstream Styles. Other genres such as horror and sword and sorcery break away from their Gothic novel roots and into their own sections. 
