If you're on the hunt for the perfect book get your Halloween spirits up, recall the Probe droids and search no further, young Skywalker. Our Top Halloween Read is so horrifyingly enticing, we're sure to be confused with a Sith Lord.
I mean, let's face it -- nothing's more popular than Star Wars. Unless it's Zombies. (You're like: Well, duh!) And the only thing more popular than zombies is --- Star Wars' Zombies!!!
Toss Halloween into that pop culture cauldron and you've got Star Wars: Death Troopers. It doesn't take take a genius (hell, it doesn't even take a vegetable) to understand why Troopers is one of the most anticipated sci-fi / fantasy books of the year.
(Even still, you've got to wonder if good ol' George doesn't feel like he's suddenly 'jumped the shark'.)
Horror writer Joe Schrieber penned this latest addition to the immensely popular Star Wars line from Lucas Books and Del Rey. Death Troopers is the first horror book of the series, but judging by fans' reactions to the book since it hit bookstore shelves just one week ago, a Jawa Zombies vs the Ewok Undead is probably just around the corner.
I'm liking this book a lot, but I'll let you be the judge. Here's the official description for Death Troopers:
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 appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned.
But when a boarding party from the Purge 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 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 aboard the Star Destroyer amid its vast creaking emptiness that isn’t really empty at all. For the dead are rising: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.
If you feel the sudden urge to scroll down the blog and pick up your discounted copy of Star Wars: Death Troopers at the PM Comics Amazon Bookstore, that's just your good common sense kicking in.
That, or me using my trusty Jedi Mind Trick.
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