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A Star Wars Zombie Novel



More awesome than Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? I don’t know yet, but the novel Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber looks promising. Here’s a synopsis:

When the Imperial prison barge Purge–temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy’s most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thieves–breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back–bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours nearly all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine.

And death is only the beginning.

The Purge’s half-dozen survivors–two teenage brothers, a sadistic captain of the guards, a couple of rogue smugglers, and the chief medical officer, the lone woman on board–will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer amid its vast creaking emptiness that isn’t really empty at all. For the dead are rising: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.

Schreiber has a blog, where you can find pictures of his zombified Storm Troopers staggering around ComicCon, promoting his book.

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  1. LisaL
    Aug 11th, 2009 at 9:53 am

    I;m really not a big Star Wars fan, but that book sounds pretty darn interesting. I loves me some zombies!

  2. Matt
    Aug 11th, 2009 at 10:30 am

    Holy Crap! That sounds freaking awesome! If they made it into a video game, it would be like Star Wars meets Dead Space! How cool would that be?!

  3. Alon
    Aug 11th, 2009 at 11:51 am

    YES. Just, YES. Best idea for a zombie story I've seen in awhile!

  4. Kalel
    Aug 11th, 2009 at 12:01 pm

    These are not the brains you are looking for. Move along.

  5. Samsonite
    Aug 11th, 2009 at 12:16 pm

    That would make Star Wars interesting all of a sudden.

  6. SenorMysterioso
    Aug 11th, 2009 at 12:22 pm

    In the Star Wars Universe zombies are not a threat, there is too much technology to deal with them.

  7. daddymak
    Aug 11th, 2009 at 1:12 pm

    That plot sounds pretty familiar, but I can't think of what movie it was.

  8. daddymak
    Aug 11th, 2009 at 1:12 pm

    Alien maybe?

  9. Bryan C
    Aug 11th, 2009 at 6:23 pm

    Uh oh. If zombie stormtroopers don't have to rely on their terrible aim, they might actually be dangerous.

    I am intrigued. But I've always been a sucker for creepy, haunted ships.

  10. ted
    Aug 11th, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    No reason to make it a Star Wars novel at all, really. Could just be Zombies in Space.

  11. seefish3
    Aug 11th, 2009 at 7:22 pm

    No reason, Ted ?

    Try bandwagon recognition for a plotline I've seen a bazillion times.

    Has anyone made a Star Wars porno yet ?

  12. ted
    Aug 14th, 2009 at 8:03 pm

    Exactly, seefish3. It's just marketing.

  13. dbenroy
    Nov 2nd, 2009 at 3:16 pm

    Bought it yesterday. Read about half way before going to bed. Very creepy, very well done description and back story/emotions that the characters are going through. Aliens are abound, and the story is only half way done!

    Porn? Really? Nerd out elsewhere, thanks.

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