Night of the Living Trekkies—merging Roddenberry’s culture with Romero’s
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Journey to the final frontier of sci-fi zombie horror!
“A fun, highly readable action tale packed with obscure Trek references, all wrapped in a sturdy, fast-paced and cinematic story.” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Jim Pike was the world’s biggest Star Trek fan—until two tours of duty in Afghanistan destroyed his faith in the human race. Now he sleepwalks through life as the assistant manager of a small hotel in downtown Houston.
But when hundreds of Trekkies arrive in his lobby for a science-fiction convention, Jim finds himself surrounded by costumed Klingons, Vulcans, and Ferengi—plus a strange virus that transforms its carriers into savage, flesh-eating zombies!
As bloody corpses stumble to life and the planet teeters on the brink of total apocalypse, Jim must deliver a ragtag crew of fanboys and fangirls to safety. Dressed in homemade uniforms and armed with prop phasers, their prime directive is to survive. But how long can they last in the ultimate no-win scenario?
“I love the zombie genre,” Night of the Living Trekkies co-author Kevin David Anderson said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. “It’s one of my favorite horror subgenres. But I never really wanted to write anything in that genre other than a short story unless it could be something different.”
Anderson talked about how watching the documentary Trekkies helped him come up with a plan. “About that time I was watching it, and I was really just trying to come up with some original idea for a zombie novel, and I saw these people—and I’m a Star Trek fan, too—and I saw how passionate they are and how organized they were. I could see people looking at them and cracking jokes and really not seeing that. But in the right situation, that being a zombie apocalypse, these people could be the heroes, and that’s where the idea came from—melding the Roddenberry world and the Romero world.”
Night of the Living Trekkies
By Kevin David Anderson, Sam Stall
Quirk Books
Categories: Mashup Fiction; TV, Movie & Game Tie-In Fiction; Horror Literature & Fiction
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KEVIN DAVID ANDERSON is a former marketing and public relations professional turned fiction writer and a lifelong Star Trek devotee. His short stories have appeared in the pages of Dark Animus, Dark Wisdom, Darkness Rising, and a bunch of other publications with the word “dark” in the title. He lives in California. Night of the Living Trekkies is his first novel.
SAM STALL is the author of more than 20 books with a total of more than 1 million copies in print. He has published both novels and nonfiction, including several pet ownership and dog books.
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