Real Guidebooks To Fictional Matters
A few guides to fictional places have also been published. The 1996 book Paris out of hand, by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Barbara Hodgson, and Nick Bantock, is a guide to a fictionalized version of Paris. There are guidebooks to the fictional countries of Molvanîa: The Land that Dentistry Forgot (2003), Phaic Tăn: Sunstroke on a Shoestring (2004) and San Sombrèro: A Land of Carnivals, Cocktails and Coups (2006), written by Tom Gleisner, Santo Cilauro, and Rob Sitch.
The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks offers advice for survival in the event of an attack by the living dead. Based on its popularity, similar guides have been written offering tips for surviving alien invasions, robot uprisings, and assorted cinema-inspired apocalypses.
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