Zombies meet trekkies in new Quirk Books title

Kevin Anderson's
Night of the Living Trekkies is set to be published by Quirk Books, announced industry resource
Publishers Lunch on March 4. Due out in September 2010, the mash-up novel, "mixing a zombie apocalypse with the enduring mythology of Star Trek," will join such Quirk Books titles as
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and
Android Karenina.

According to a description posted on Sea of Stories, an intellectual rights agency site, Night of the Living Trekkies "follows a rag-tag group of 'Trekkies' en route to an annual Star Trek convention. Arriving with homemade uniforms, glued-on prosthetics, and plastic phasers, these fanboys know more than any rational adult should know about Kirk, Spock, Next Generation, particle physics, and black holes. But when aliens release a zombie plague upon the Earth, all of this 'Starfleet training' suddenly becomes a lot more relevant."

The hit Quirk Classics series, thought up by editor Jason Rekulak, combines "popular fanboy characters like ninjas, pirates, zombies and monkeys" with classic public domain book titles. Quirk Books' first title, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith, is now being made into a feature film. A prequel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith, is due out on March 30, and in June the group will publish Android Karenina by Ben H. Winters, who also wrote the team's 2009 book Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.