Quirk Books is adding a new zombie tale to their collection with Night of the Living Trekkies, a novel by Kevin David Anderson and Sam Stall which sees Trekkies at a convention meet the undead!
The publisher, which is known for its literary monster mash-ups like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, hails the book as the “strange lovechild of Galaxy Quest and Dawn of the Dead.”
When hordes of the undead come to feast upon the attendees at a Star Trek convention, a group of Trekkies fight for their lives using everything they’ve learned from old Star Trek episodes.
Quirk plans to release the new book — which is available now for pre-order — on September 1, 2010.
There’s no final artwork for the book at this time. The header here at top is part of the preliminary cover.
Read more about the book here below.
About Night of the Living Trekkies
This sci-fi/zombie/comedy/adventure follows a group of rag-tag Trekkies getting together for the fifth annual GulfCon (billed as the “largest Starfleet Convention in the western Gulf Coast region”).
Our heroes are dressed in homemade uniforms and armed with prop phasers-but soon find themselves defending their hotel and convention center against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Suddenly, all of their useless knowledge about particle physics and old Star Trek episodes has genuine real-world applications! And while hotel employees and regular civilians are dying left and right, our Trekkies summon strength and courage by emulating their favorite starship-voyaging characters.
Packed with hundreds of gags referencing Star Trek, Star Wars, comic books, and fan conventions, Night of the Living Trekkies reads like the strange lovechild of Galaxy Quest and Dawn of the Dead. Journey to the final frontier of zombie science-fiction satire!
KEVIN DAVID ANDERSON and SAM STALL are lifelong Trekkies. Mr. Anderson lives in California and Mr. Stall lives in Indianapolis.
*This is an original work of parody and is not officially sponsored by, affiliated with, or endorsed by the owners of the Star Trek® brand.
[Source: Quirk Books]
If by “old Star Trek episodes” they mean Real Trek, then the geeks have a chance. If they mean Lesser Trek, then they are doomed (you can’t have conferences, or negotiate, with zombies.)
Tex
(Executive Producer of Star Trek-The Zombie Generation, a documentary on fans of Jar-Jar Trek)
ah, but you can’t have sex with zombies, which was the old trek way to solve problems.
Plus the old fist-a-cuffs approach of the old Trek could only go so far. You’d get your brains eaten out instantly if you tried to brawl a group of zombies. A more cerebral approach would go further.