The tagline on the book is absolutely hysterical:  They thought space was the final frontier - they were wrong. How could any Trekkie or Trekker not immediately love this book cover? And…believe it or not…there's plenty here to tickle the humor of a Star Wars fan.

Jim Pike, a former soldier who served in Afghanistan, now works as an Assistant Manager in a small hotel in Houston.  Jim cares little about his job, or even most of his coworkers.  How much he cares about hundreds of Trekkies converging on his hotel for a convention is so small it can't be measured.  But when odd and weird little events start happening, he does grudgingly try to help.  The first hint of something wrong was the mime who bit one of his coworkers.  The big one, though, was the crowd of zombies congregated outside the hotel lobby doors.

One bright spot in his weekend was his baby sister coming to visit; darkened by who she's traveling with - a real douchebag with a Kirk complex.  While Jim is dealing with the front desk manager who thinks she can communicate with the zombies, and trying to get his sister and her friends to take the crisis seriously, a woman who hires herself out to do fan films is currently tied to a hotel bed dressed as Leia in chainmail.  She's actually fine with the job and she's worked with the filmmaker several times.  What she's not fine with are the crazy sounds from the room next door and in the hall; and she's really not fine with her filmmaker leaving her on the bed to go check it out.  Obviously, he never returns.

As Jim carefully navigates the now treacherous hallways and elevators on his way to his sister's room, he finds Leia.  Together they head up to sister's room and try to figure a way out of the hotel.  Along the way, they encounter the Science Guest for the convention and he has a surprising amount of intel on what's happening and why.

Of course, the little group has to descend down to the parking garage so they can escape in the gargantuan RV that looks like a bad Star Trek Enterprise.  With the hotel and garage full of flesh-eating zombies, it's easier said than done.  In a matter of floors, relationships are redefined, goals adopted and rejected, and then comes the kicker:  the government will be sending a really big bomb to take out Houston which makes their exit from the city even more urgent.

Oh, gawd, this was just so much fun.  Between the serio-comic Star Trek references and the Star Wars quotes, it just stayed funny.  Anyone with a passing familiarity with Star Trek, Star Wars and, most particularly, their conventions will easily understand the references and get the humor. The cherry for me was the behind-the-scenes machinations of big government.  I was so happy someone gave me this copy; can't understand how I missed it all these years.  ~~  Catherine Book