Can't believe folks here don't pick up on the obvious.
This is talking about a "wild and wooly" PLANET. This is a future SF world being depicted here. "Mizar V" is, in this universe, a "boom planet" that has chosen to minimize legal authority, shall we say, which attracts the more nefarious types to the place, a world where you can go to sort of "disappear," make a new life for yourself.
The guy who mentioned Jack Vance is almost certainly spot-on.
"You zombies" is a probably a reference to the Robert Heinlein story "...All You Zombies..." from the 50s. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Zombies%E2%80%94) The plot of the Heinlein story bears little in common with the story of the SD song, and is probably just a name-check kind of thing, just like the allusion to the Vance story.
Most of SD's stuff is autobiographical; this is likely a sort of acknowledgment of the role played by pulp SF in the youth of either Donald or Walter. Or maybe both.
@Illbay Heinlein's zombies referred to the fact that every one of the characters who had a part in molding the main character's life were actually time-traveling versions of himself; that he was both his own mother and father, and therefore that his very existence in the real world was ultimately inexplicable -- hence they were all unreal zombies. I suspect SD was just using "zombie" in the sense of a gang member, like "enforcer," "soldier," "collector," etc., as a guy whose identity has been wiped.
@Illbay Heinlein's zombies referred to the fact that every one of the characters who had a part in molding the main character's life were actually time-traveling versions of himself; that he was both his own mother and father, and therefore that his very existence in the real world was ultimately inexplicable -- hence they were all unreal zombies. I suspect SD was just using "zombie" in the sense of a gang member, like "enforcer," "soldier," "collector," etc., as a guy whose identity has been wiped.
Can't believe folks here don't pick up on the obvious.
This is talking about a "wild and wooly" PLANET. This is a future SF world being depicted here. "Mizar V" is, in this universe, a "boom planet" that has chosen to minimize legal authority, shall we say, which attracts the more nefarious types to the place, a world where you can go to sort of "disappear," make a new life for yourself.
The guy who mentioned Jack Vance is almost certainly spot-on.
"You zombies" is a probably a reference to the Robert Heinlein story "...All You Zombies..." from the 50s. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Zombies%E2%80%94) The plot of the Heinlein story bears little in common with the story of the SD song, and is probably just a name-check kind of thing, just like the allusion to the Vance story.
Most of SD's stuff is autobiographical; this is likely a sort of acknowledgment of the role played by pulp SF in the youth of either Donald or Walter. Or maybe both.
@Illbay Heinlein's zombies referred to the fact that every one of the characters who had a part in molding the main character's life were actually time-traveling versions of himself; that he was both his own mother and father, and therefore that his very existence in the real world was ultimately inexplicable -- hence they were all unreal zombies. I suspect SD was just using "zombie" in the sense of a gang member, like "enforcer," "soldier," "collector," etc., as a guy whose identity has been wiped.
@Illbay Heinlein's zombies referred to the fact that every one of the characters who had a part in molding the main character's life were actually time-traveling versions of himself; that he was both his own mother and father, and therefore that his very existence in the real world was ultimately inexplicable -- hence they were all unreal zombies. I suspect SD was just using "zombie" in the sense of a gang member, like "enforcer," "soldier," "collector," etc., as a guy whose identity has been wiped.