The deeper story of this zombie apocalypse didn’t begin in late September—it began years ago. To trace the moving parts of our uneventful zombie outbreak, I’ll start with the EAS.

On Oct. 23 at 4 p.m. EDT, join Future Tense, ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination, and the authors for a free online event about what zombies can teach us about surviving the apocalypse ...