Death Troopers
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The chilling tale of the undead in a galaxy far, far away.
“This is the Star Wars of every horror fan’s dreams—gory, funny, and brimming with a blood-spattered cast of swashbucklers and space-zombies.”—Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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 part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting 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 will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer. For the dead are rising: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.
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The thing this book most reminded me of was Snakes on a Plane. When I first heard about both SoaP and Death Troopers, my first reaction was “That's an amazing idea and should be tons of fun! Why did no one think of this sooner?” Both situations ended up being similarly disappointing, though, although of the two Death Troopers was an order of magnitude more disappointing.
DT was disappointing because the only time it felt like a Star Wars novel was when Han Solo showed up, and even that felt kind of contrived (and seriously, if this only takes place a year or two before ANH, wouldn't Han at some point in that movie have said “Blow up a Death Star? Wow, that's almost as crazy as that time I had to fight a bunch of zombies last year”?). It was also disappointing as a zombie novel because the best (non-comedic) zombie stories are visceral, bloody things; this one felt mostly clean and antiseptic in comparison.
I still really like the idea of zombies in space, so hopefully this won't stop someone else from writing a similar (non Star Wars) book in the future.
