Night of the Living Trekkies Book

It's zombie fiction Jim, but not as we know it.

Jim Pike, former soldier and current assistant hotel manager, is looking forward to spending some time with his sister when she arrives in town to attend the Star Trek convention that is taking place at his hotel. Unfortunately for Jim, as the convention kicks into gear it becomes clear that there is far more than homemade Borg costumes to fear - zombies are attacking the hotel and having a good munch on the assembled fanboys as they do so. Channelling his inner Trekkie, Jim becomes the reluctant leader of a group of survivors who must battle through the hotel, dodging zombies at every turn, in order to escape.

This type of zombie/horror mash-up novel has been popular for a couple of years now and, while Night of the Living Trekkies isn't one of the most famous examples of the genre [I think that honour would have to go to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies], it is certainly my favourite. Certainly anyone who has attended a sci fi convention will feel at home within this book and will fondly recognise the host of stereotypes that Jim Pike has to deal with, but more casual fans of Star Trek and/or zombies should also find the book to be hilarious as well as action packed. Almost all of the action takes place within the hotel which adds a nice degree of claustrophobia to the blood and guts storyline and helps to increase the tension. As you get further into the story, the darker it gets and so Night of the Living Trekkies is really far more than a parody.

Night of the Living Trekkies is certainly quirky and more than a little odd, but I appreciated the fact that it is one of the few zombie novels to adequately [and, indeed, uniquely] explain how exactly the zombie plague happened to come about. The little nods towards realism as well as the clearly third wall breaking in-jokes really made this book appeal to me. I might have bought the book for the humour, but I stayed with it for the story.

Night of the Living Trekkies is top grade pulp nonsense. It's a thrilling, funny and occasionally bloody trek to the final frontier of zombie fiction with enough sci fi and fandom gags to keep even the nerdiest nerd satisfied.