title: The Zombies: Hung Up On A Dream
author:  Claes Johansen 
description: Chris White, founder member of The Zombies had this to say about the book: <P>"It was a great pleasure to read Claes Johansen's book The Zombies - Hung Up On A Dream. Firstly it read like a novel - something rare in the field of pop biography. This different approach made it as irrepressible as the Harry Potter books are, in style and interest. Secondly, Claes takes a very specialised, personal viewpoint in his examination of the songs in the Zombies short, but lasting career. This personal analysis is quite fascinating because it even made me go back and listen to the songs again just to see how they appear to another musician's 'eye' and ear. It is also humbling and gratifying to read about our influence on other artists and writers, people for whom I have the greatest respect and admiration. In short, I've read it through three times now and still find his viewpoint refreshing and irritatingly accurate."
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  IAN R. MacLEOD - Verglas
  
  
  The first week after Marion and the kids left I kept busy around the base,
  clearing tunnels, tidying up their chambers, storing things away, taking in
  great gulps of memory. But even then I felt restless. I spent a long afternoon
  digging their graves by hand; trying to lose myself in working up a sweat,
  whacking the hot blade of the shovel through gray-tufted tundra into the
  course peat below. Then I went to seal up their bodies for the last time. They
  looked so beautiful lying inside their half-open sleepsuits with the
  stillfield showing through their veins in tiny threads of gold. I kissed
  Marion's mouth and her cool white breasts. I touched the bruise that still
  showed on Robbie's forehead from the day he fell chasing the silver-backed
  pseudocrabs soon after we landed. I drew my fingers through Sarah's pale
  yellow hair. There was a faint but palpable sense that, even though it was so
  slow as to be undetectable, they were still breathing. 