Star Trek + Zombies...

For...the...WIN!

This story more than delivered on everything I was hoping for going into it. It met or exceeded expectations in terms of both writing (crisp, polished and very funny) and characters (genuine, endearing, and smart), and the narrative was slick, fast paced and well laid out (i.e., twas nary a boring page). In fact, the overall quality was so surprisingly high that it made me wonder why this book isn’t better known, especially given its popular ingredients.

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What can one expect from a book called Night of the Living Trekkies?

1. Freaky zombies ✓
2. Trekkies in homemade uniforms ✓
3. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, Trek references ✓
4. Serious, gory, Zombie slaying madness ✓
5. A Convention on the Edge of Forever ✓
6. Nuclear Blasts ✓
7. Twists and turns ✓
8. Plenty o' death ✓
9. A Kirk style hero and his buxom, leggy, scantily clad partner ✓
10. The obligatory, cheesy, happy-Trek ending ✓

Kevin David Anderson and Sam Stall deliver on every expectation and then throw More...

This is a book about a zombie outbreak that takes place in Houston in a hotel that is hosting a Star Trek convention.

Wait, I'm just going to say that again.

This is a book about a zombie outbreak that takes place in Houston in a hotel that is hosting a Star Trek convention.

Whatever you thought of when you read that sentence, whatever expectations entered your head at the sight of those words - hear me now. This book fulfills that promise times one hundred. I am not kidding. This is hilarious, More...

I just finished this one and while it's a bit of a mixed bag (seems to be a phrase I use a lot lately) on the whole (as is that one) this is a thoroughly enjoyable book.

This is a sort of cross genre parody seriocomic tale of the zombie apocalypse...at a Star Trek convention. There are places where the novel touches on many, many...many books and movies that you almost undoubtedly have seen and read. The best part of the book in my opinion was/is the parody. The cliches from zombie, science fict More...

Up to this stardate I've managed to avoid the zombification/vampirization-of-beloved-literary-icons genre (though I have enjoyed the GR reviews of these works) but based on Brad's review and the fact that it's Trek...well, "resistance is futile," as they say.

I'll probably warp through this over the weekend.
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A surprisingly good Zombie-Star Trek adventure. You actually kind of really care about what happens to the people in the book: J More...

I grabbed this because I love Star Trek and zombies so the idea was awesome but it was much better then I anticipated. The "zombies" were actually infected with an alien parasite (a similar idea Stephen Kings Dreamcatcher) and have an inner networking system so they can work together. The story takes places at a hotel hosting Gulfcon or as I like to think of it "Gathering of the Trekkies" (star trek fan cosplay) where a man who works there tries to go from room to room avoiding zombies to find h More...

This proved to be a fun and quick read that will really appeal to fans of Star Trek and zombies. There is a big Star Trek convention set to take place in Houston, Texas, not far from where there is a secret government research facility that has been investigating people that are experiencing symptoms not all that different than zombies. Things go horribly wrong at the facility at the facility, and some of the experiment subjects escape.

Meanwhile at the Botany Bay Hotel (where the convention is t More...

What a weird little story.

I can't not like a story with so much Star Trek culture woven in its fabric, but the authors' "OH HEY, AREN'T I COOL FOR KNOWING THIS" expository moments, and over-explanation of some of the Trek references made me roll my eyes pretty hard. It's like they were trying really hard to keep their readers who came over from the horror genre, but ran the risk of losing their readers from the Trek genre.

The narrative itself is not terribly well constructed, and the context t More...

Crossing zombies and Star Trek already limits the target audience to a fraction of all readers. Too bad for them, because this book delivers a fun rollercoaster of an adventure perfectly suited for Trekkies and for those who have not grown tired of the seemingly ubiquitous zombie genre. To be sure, it's preposterous, but...

Afghanistan war veteran Jim has returned from duty to the civilian life. He wishes for nothing more than a steady job without danger, or, more importantly, responsibility. Lit More...

My brother gave me a copy of this book as a gift, figuring I'd like it. After all, it combines two of my favorite things: Star Trek...and zombies! This was actually the first zombie novel I've ever read--and started me down the path of zombie books--and I was impressed!

The story is told in the spirit of "Dawn of the Dead" and "Night of the Living Dead." It follows all the best rules of a zombie outbreak, but it's not just a retelling of those works in the context of a Star Trek Convention. The a More...

Zombies are everywhere these days. They show up in movies, books, standard TV, on the t-shirts of infants.. They have become pervasive in all aspects of our global social-cultural circles.

It is strange because back when I was in school, Zombies were still a sub-culture. I do not know if this is purely an artifact of the internet culture, or if people have finally become desensitized to a point where flash mobs of gore covered faux-corpses is just a norm; Where a life with out zombie-fear, zombie More...

In Night of the Livng Trekkies, the zombie apocolypse hits my old hometown of Houston, and a couple of blocks from my last office as well. For me, there is always a little extra something when there is such a connection in a book or movie (like maybe Chicago natives feel during the final act of the new Transformers movie). Also, I've never been to Comic-Con or a Trek convention, but obviously the authors (self-proclaimed sci-fi geeks) have. The cosplay, panel descriptions, "booth babes", and ban More...

Where Star Trek and zombies collide--I kid you not!

Confession: I've actually been to a Trek Con. Did not dress up but stood in line for autographs and bought stuff...and more stuff. I even own a bat'leth...somewhere. I've watched Galaxy Quest and enjoyed it immensely.

Yes, I am one of those.

When I heard about this book, I had to get it. It's much different than a lot of zombie books out there--more zombies than Pride & Prejudice and Zombies, which I thought had too few zombies and needed to p More...

"In his younger years, he would have spent hours debating the finer points of Trek continuity with a man dressed as a pink were-wolf."

Once again I've had a dry spell, insofar as reading is concerned. I've had fantasy epics trying to break down my door and get in, so this was welcome, light relief.

"Speaking as someone with a really tenuous hold on reality, I think you might want to take yourself offline and undergo a full diagnostic, if you get my drift."

So, to the story: a young x-army Afghan ve More...

I won Night of the Living Trekkies through a website and held on to it for a couple of months before deciding to take a stab at it. My first recollection of the book, before I received it, was the book trailer I saw on the internet. It struck me more as a movie trailer than one for a book, and I was joking with my friends that I wanted to go see the movie and not bother with the book because it was so well done. But after checking the book out, I have to admit, it was a lot of fun and I'm glad I More...

I was sent this book by a friend with the instruction "just read it." These instructions were direct and to the point because 1) I'm not into Star Trek and 2) I'm really not into zombies. I'd never pick this book up on my own. I put it on my shelf and ignored it for a couple months.

I started reading it this past Friday afternoon and finished the book Sunday night. That's high praise coming from a guy that has read the first half of most of the books on his shelf ten times, never being interested More...

As zombies books go, this is fun, a little funny and fast. Jim Pike is a former Trekkie who spent two tours in Afghanistan and now gets a boring job in a hotel. A hotel in Houston that is having a Star Trek convention. Houston has been overrun by zombies. His sister Rayna comes to the Con.

‘“There’s got to be another way,” Rayna said. “There always is.”
“There might be if this were a Star Trek episode, but it’s not. This is a zombie movie. The rules are different.”
“Enlighten me,” Rayna said.
“Star More...

I got a copy of this book through the Amazon Vine program. It just looked too quirky and funny to pass up. I expected something moderately humorous and a bit silly, but what I actually got was something way, way better than that. This is an absolutely awesome book. It is very well written, intelligent, and actually really, really funny. This book is just non-stop action from the beginning to the end and it takes an interesting and creative twist that ties Star Trek nicely in with zombies.

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“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!”

A disaster at a secret government l More...

I was afraid, at first, that the title of this book would turn out to be better than the actual book. Fortunately, that wasn't the case. I really enjoyed this novel. It pokes fun at zombie movies and novels as well as Star Trek fans, but not in a mean-spirited way. It is all done with affection.

And the story -- an apparent virus hits a Star Trek convention and turns most of the attendees into flesh-eating zombies -- is action packed and gripping as well as funny. The main character, Jim, is a di More...

I know what you’re thinking right about now, “Josh…reviewing a Sci-Fi novel?” The answer is yes, yes I am. My secret is out — not a horrible secret, really. I’m proud of the fact that I’m a Sci-Fi geek and a fan of Star Trek. Also, this book is about zombies. ZOMBIES! How could I not read this?

Night of the Living Trekkies combines George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead with Star Trek. Taking place at a Star Trek convention — who hasn’t been to one of those? — the undead begin to rise from the More...

I love the original Star Trek series, as well as the Next Generation, but I am far from a Trekkie (or “Trekker”, to be as politically correct as this book suggests) and even less so a fan of zombie films and books. Nonetheless, I found Night of the Living Trekkies thoroughly enjoyable and extremely engaging; I was glad that I was flying and had an excuse to keep reading, because otherwise I might have had trouble finding an excuse to put it down. That is not to say that I have universal praise: More...

I haven't read many zombie-themed books. Before reading Night of the Living Trekkies, I've read World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War which I enjoyed and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies which I didn't. So I was 1-1.

Anderson and Stall's breezy novel has all the zombie tropes with Star Trek and a bit of Star Wars thrown in. No need for a synopsis here but suffice it for me to say that despite the well trodden paths taken by the authors to tell their story, it still came out as something More...

I've never been a big zombie fan, but this book is an absolute work of art. It was actually This absolutely amazing book trailer that convinced me to read it in the first place...and although the trailer is a tad bit different from the actual book, it is equally epic.

The main character Jim has a lot of baggage riding around on his shoulders from when he was in the military and was unable to save his squadron from a bomb, and therefore wants absolutely no responsibility where he is in charge of More...

I completed this entire book in about 7 hours, which is pretty rare for me. Typically, no matter how interested I am in what I'm reading or how much I like it, I can't keep my concentration on it for more than 1-2 hours. My mind inevitably starts to wander and I end up having to take a break from reading. But I didn't have that problem with this book.

I've been a fan of Star Trek since before I lost all my baby teeth, though, admittedly, I'm not quite as well versed in The Original Series (TOS) a More...

I really started reading this thinking I was on for a shitty book, but I was fortunately wrong! Kevin David Anderson does exactly what the cover title proposes: a campy zombie novel with a twist — a twist where no man has gone before.

This is no Death Troopers, mind you, but it's very enjoyable (specially having only 256 pages), although the reader should meet certain qualifications to really enjoy this book: first, you have to know your Star Trek. I mean it. The text is packed with obscure refer More...

For Afghan vet Jim Pike it started as just another day. Having separated from the Army after growing sick of the things he saw in combat, Jim thought that running security at the Botany Bay Hotel would be a good job. But when the Star Trek convention rolled in, things started to get a little hectic. Still, all was under control.

But after he saw a Klingon running from the bathroom with a trail of blood behind him, Jim figured things were about to go bad. He didn't realise just how bad, until he f More...

I was wondering how I'd find this, never having seen an episode of Star Trek, but I have a feeling that's to my advantage - the handful of over-explanations would have been even more wearying if I already knew the things it covered. I get the impression that Anderson and Stall either didn't quite trust their audience - usually they do okay, but really, I'm sure than 99% of the people who even consider reading this book will know what a redshirt is.

Aside from that, this is amazing; a brilliant, h More...

I remember seeing this book when it came out and then it slipped my mind. Stephen's review put it squarely back in the middle of my radar. To be fair, Stephen's reviews are always good reading, but this one was so darned enthusiastic that I paid extra attention.

If you hate both Star Trek and Zombies...

I don’t know what to tell you. You obviously have made some wrong decisions in your life that have led you to this unfortunate circumstance. Maybe you should go and take a long hard look at yoursel

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