Spirituality and fantasy color Signe Pike '03's newest Faery Tales

The Sun interviews author John Cotter, who will be reading a Buffalo Street Books Saturday, Oct. 23.

Who’s Spencer Wells?

Dr. Spencer Wells is a celebrated geneticist, who studies human diversity.  He is the author of 41 papers and two books, the author and presenter of the PBS/National Geographic documentary Journey of Man: a Genetic Odyssey, as well as several other documentaries for National Geographic, the director of the Genographic project, a popular explorer and lecturer, and the new Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor.

You can't make a story like this up. In fact, you really can't introduce it. So here it is: "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", a novel scheduled for release in June 2009.

While there is scant information on the novel, author (or is it co-author?) Seth Grahame-Smith estimates that 85 percent of the book is the original Jane Austen text of "Pride and Prejudice", with the other 15 percent being the zombie storyline. This text-hybrid turns the five Bennet sisters into zombie slayers and Mr. Darcy as a ninja expert, as they attempt to vanquish the zombies that have risen up in their village as the result of a plague.