Joe Schreiber’s Star Wars horror novel now has a title and a time period… Deathtroopers, set just before A New Hope. It’s due out in November. (Thanks, Zee Zee!) Here’s what Schreiber had to say on his blog:
I had the time of my life on this one, I have to say. I’m doing the final edits now, and I’ve tried to make it into exactly the kind of book you’d want to read if you were a child of the 70s who grew up with the original Star Wars trilogy and really digs horror in the vein of The Shining and Alien, with a little dose of William Gibson mixed in.
Yay! Sounds exciting.
First SW book that I might pick up based on the title alone…
I’m looking forward to this book!
So, killer cyber-zombies, then. I’m quite certain there was a WEG adventure about this.
You don’t want to sell me Deathtroopers.. you want to go home and rethink your life!
There is a fine line between coming up with something totally new for a Star Wars novel and having to use something from the movies/EU. If this is the latter, then I can see the Emperor using the old Sith zombie-warrior creation technique to make an army of undead stormtroopers. Using a quote from the prequels as a backstory, the Emperor and Vader team up to try and unravel the mystery of eternal life, but end up with the undead?