{"id":52845,"date":"2026-06-06T07:50:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52845"},"modified":"2026-06-20T11:20:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:20:51","slug":"zombies-of-the-gene-pool-by-sharyn-mccrumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2026\/06\/06\/zombies-of-the-gene-pool-by-sharyn-mccrumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Zombies of the Gene Pool by Sharyn McCrumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 22 of 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/29f62d77-9b55-4ed6-b934-f162d9320e96\"><cite>Zombies of the Gene Pool<\/cite><\/a> by Sharyn McCrumb.<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: Apparently I\u2019d read this one 15 years ago and entirely forgotten. A sequel to the somewhat notorious <cite>Bimbos of the Death Sun<\/cite>, it\u2019s a bit more reserved, swapping snarking on \u201880s SF fandom to looking back on \u201850s Golden Age fandom. It has much of the same obvious mix of affection for and exasperation with the SF scene, but also has many of the same drawbacks as <cite>Bimbos<\/cite>, particularly where women characters are concerned. As with <cite>Bimbos<\/cite>, it\u2019s an enjoyable but definitely flawed bit of fluff that would be better if it spent more time laughing <em>with<\/em> its subjects (as <cite>Galaxy Quest<\/cite> does for Star Trek) instead of <em>at<\/em> them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6187.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Zombies of the Gene Pool.\" title=\"IMG_6187.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:17330,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/29f62d77-9b55-4ed6-b934-f162d9320e96&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 22 of 2026: \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: An enjoyable but definitely flawed bit of fluff that would be better if it spent more time laughing _with_ its subjects instead of _at_ them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[4210],"class_list":["post-52845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-sharyn-mccrumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52868,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52845\/revisions\/52868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}