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Barf Factor Three, Mr. Sulu

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies publisher Quirk Books will soon bring out Night of the Living Trekkies by Kevin David Anderson reports io9. In Anderson’s novel fans rally to fight off an undead horde unleashed at a Star Trek convention.

Quirk Books’ associate publisher Jason Rekulak says:

“I’ve always felt that a giant convention of fanboys (like the San Diego Comic Con) would be a delightful setting for some kind of genre fiction: mystery, romance, horror, something.”

Dang, great idea! Nobody ever thought of setting a story at an sf convention before except Gene DeWeese and Buck Coulson (Charles Fort Never Mentioned Wombats and Now You See It/Him/Them), Richard Purtill (Murdercon), Bill Warren and Allan Rothstein (Fandom Is a Way of Death), and Sharyn McCrumb (Bimbos of the Death Star and sequel Zombies of the Gene Pool).

(Did I leave anyone out?)

[Thanks to Janice Gelb for the link.]

Wait, Wait Slash

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Even the official “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!” blog loves this fan fiction about an episode of the NPR quiz show set during a zombie apocalypse, titled “Wait Wait Don’t Eat Me!”

CARL: “I am tired of these m-f’ing zombies in my m-f’ing White House!”

PETER: That was a slightly edited version of a quote from which world leader, in response to the zombie threat?

STEVE: Brains?

PETER: No, I’m sorry, it was Vice-President Joe Biden, who went, and we quote the vice-president again, “all Samuel L. Jackson on their asses.” President Obama, meanwhile, defended the West Wing with a functioning lightsaber that the Pentagon had apparently built for him in secret.

[Via James Hay.]

Austin Road Sign Warns of Zombies

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Austin zombie road sign

You think your commute is dangerous? Want to trade those snowdrifts for what some Texans were facing this morning?

Austin drivers making their morning commute were in for a surprise when two road signs on a busy stretch of road were taken over by hackers. The signs near the intersection of Lamar and Martin Luther King Boulevards usually warn drivers about upcoming construction, but Monday morning they warned of “zombies ahead.”