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title = "Night of the Living Trekkies - Kevin David Anderson"
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date = 2018-08-28
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["books", "kevin david anderson", "reviews", "star trek", "zombies",
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"fiction", "5 stars"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7884969-night-of-the-living-trekkies):
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Jim Pike, the disillusioned manager of a hotel that is hosting a Star Trek
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convention, finds himself leading a ragtag crew of survivors as a strange
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virus turns the convention-goers into zombies...
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{{ stars(stars=5) }}
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I'm not a fan of zombie movies/books. But I'm a Star Trek fan. And oh boy,
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this is a fun book.
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While some events in the story may be too cliché (specially in the zombie
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genre), the way the author interweaves with Star Trek philosophy and Trek
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fandom is brilliant. And also gets bonus points for not doing "A red shirt on
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the Enterprise gets infected with a virus and starts zombifying everyone";
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instead, it takes the *fandom* and infects its.
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And while the cliché parts, although cliché, fit the story, the fact that the
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author also goes into deep in what Star Trek is and what it represents to its
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fans, it's pretty damn amazing.
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I really really liked it.
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