They Thought Space Was The Final Frontier - They Were Wrong.

bookchick@evpl — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:59:00 GMT

Do you remember the episode of Star Trek where Mr. Spock has his brain stolen? I’ve just read a book where he gets his brain stolen and then…. eaten! Night of the Living Trekkies, by Kevin David Anderson and Sam Stall is the perfect book for Star Trek fans and readers of zombie fiction. In other words a super nerd book! (makes me a super nerd)

The book comes complete with a 50s inspired serial cover and is surprisingly well-written. I admit I wasn’t expecting much and was pleasantly proven wrong. True fans will find nods to the franchise throughout including an ending that could have been written by the shows creators.

I don’t want to give away too much of the plot so I will just say that if you ever attend a Star Trek Convention you might want to pay careful attention to the Targ heart. It just might be real…

Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter ---- better than it sounds

this.is.not.here@evpl — Thu, 27 May 2010 03:43:00 GMT

Yes I know it sounds awful. But------surprisingly it held my interest. I downloaded the book Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter from Overdrive and listened to it on my mp3 player. There was just enough historical information so that it stopped short of being totally ludicrous. Once you got past the vampire backstory where Abraham Lincoln was avenging his mother's death not from the alleged "milk sickness" but actually from a vampire's bite, the tale became quite the page turner. Grahame-Smith has produced a novel full of action, suspense and intrigue. It even touched on the mysterious disappearance of the Roanoke settlers who vanished without a trace. In fact that story provides a bit of sympathy for one vampire in particular who saves Lincolns life and then helps him identify and destroy the bad vampires.

The author Seth Grahame-Smith also penned Pride and Prejudice and Zombies which I have not read. Now if anyone ever read any of my earliest blogs you will find that I am really afraid of Zombies. Especially flesh-eating Zombies. I walked out of the movie Dawn of the Dead in the mid 70's and most recently after about 10 minutes I walked out of Zombieland. I guess the reason I'm not as afraid of these vampires is that they attack very quickly and violently and just as quickly they are destroyed with one blow to the head by Abe's axe. Whereas zombie's are just so slow and sneaky and dare I say it ----eat the living. So Gross!!!!!!!!

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They Thought Space Was The Final Frontier - They Were Wrong.

Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter ---- better than it sounds