I love zombies. I enjoy Star Wars. You’d think I’d be dancing on ceiling with Lionel Richie when I heard about the concept behind Death Troopers. Instead, just a giant meh.

Death Troopers is a recently published book set in the Star Wars universe and brimming with zombies. Although from briefly scanning the Amazon reviews, it looks like no lightsabers make an appearance.

From the blog entry:

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 seems to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party 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 will 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 onboard the Star Destroyer amid its vast creaking emptiness that isn’t really empty at all. The dead are rising, soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.

Had this book been released a few years back, I think I might have bitten (har har), but as it stands these days, I’m a little Star Wars’d out.

‘Star Wars’ Gets Into The Halloween Spirit With Stormtrooper Zombies In ‘Star Wars: Death Troopers’ (moviesblog.mtv.com <- new window)
Death Troopers @ Amazon (amazon.com <- new window)