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After a reality bomb goes off at the first ever ShatnerCon, all of the characters ever played by William Shatner are suddenly sucked into our world. Their mission: hunt down and destroy the real William Shatner. Featuring: Captain Kirk, TJ Hooker, Denny Crane, Priceline Shatner, Cartoon Kirk, Rescue 9-1-1 Shatner, singer Shatner, and many more. No costumed con-goer will be spared in their wave of destruction, no red shirt will make it out alive, and not even the Klingons will be able to stand up to a deranged Captain Kirk with a light saber. But these Shatner- clones are about to learn a hard lesson . . . that the real William Shatner doesn't take crap from anybody. Not even himself.
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"...getting a lightsaber-wielding Captain Kirk in the same room with "Boston Legal's" Denny Crane is definitely worth the cover price in comedic gold." - Wizard Magazine
"It's like Lloyd Kaufman and Sam Raimi's mutant offspring wrote a book." -Wil Wheaton, Wesley Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation
"This is surreal and weird and funny, and it's also super violent, in the same food-coloring-plus-corn-syrup-equals-fake-blood sort of way as Evil Dead 2 or Bad Taste." - THE PORTLAND MERCURY'S BLOGTOWN
"It's like Die Hard, but instead of Bruce Willis fighting terrorists it's William Shatner fighting other versions of himself... In other words, it's fucking awesome!" - CARLTON MELLICK III, author of Satan Burger
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Ever wondered what would happen if William Shatner came face to face with the incarnation of every character he ever played? Then this is the book for you.
I love the concept of this novel; would love it even more if it could somehow be put to filmed reality, but failing that this novel is a lot of fun to read, chock full as it is of bizarre and often gory situations as Shatner battles his way through the ultimate convention gone wrong. It's a little on the short side, but feels dense since so much is going on and it's fun to identify all the different Shatner roles as they pop up.
I love the concept of this novel; would love it even more if it could somehow be put to filmed reality, but failing that this novel is a lot of fun to read, chock full as it is of bizarre and often gory situations as Shatner battles his way through the ultimate convention gone wrong. It's a little on the short side, but feels dense since so much is going on and it's fun to identify all the different Shatner roles as they pop up.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Some ideas are so simple and yet so brilliantly insane that it's hard to believe they haven't been acted upon before now.
Shatnerquake, by Jeff Burk, is one such gem.
A tongue-in-cheek homage to one of the great characters of our age, the novella pits William Shatner (as the star - and only - guest at the world's first ShatnerCon) against blood-thirsty, ghoulish incarnations of his various television and cinematic personnas after a reality-warping bomb is set off by zealous, one-handed followers of Bruce Campbell (who, in a Monty Pythonesque twist, are all called Bruce).
Shatner, aided by his number one fan, Bob (who has been surgically altered to look and sound like his idol), has to fight his way through the crowded convention centre and survive a confrontation with a blood-crazed Captain Kirk armed with a working lightsaber.
Burk exhibits a deft brevity in his writing of this mind-bendingly surreal comedy, which occasionally descends into gloriously graphic Grand Guignol, and a very visual style that suggests Shatnerquake would make one hell of a mental movie (probably requiring, sadly, a prohibitive amount of expensive CGI to realise the multiversal incarnations of Shatner who would have to share screen time).
There are few other actors (except maybe Bruce Campbell, of course) worthy of this kind of treatment, but Burk has gone for the Big Kahuna and nailed his target perfectly, while simultaneously establishing a slightly skewed sci-fi metaverse for his characters to exist in.
He also manages to squash in a tidal wave of in-jokes and references to Shatner's broad portfolio of work, the insanity of convention life, fandom and science-fiction in general. All in about 70 pages.
Shatnerquake, by Jeff Burk, is one such gem.
A tongue-in-cheek homage to one of the great characters of our age, the novella pits William Shatner (as the star - and only - guest at the world's first ShatnerCon) against blood-thirsty, ghoulish incarnations of his various television and cinematic personnas after a reality-warping bomb is set off by zealous, one-handed followers of Bruce Campbell (who, in a Monty Pythonesque twist, are all called Bruce).
Shatner, aided by his number one fan, Bob (who has been surgically altered to look and sound like his idol), has to fight his way through the crowded convention centre and survive a confrontation with a blood-crazed Captain Kirk armed with a working lightsaber.
Burk exhibits a deft brevity in his writing of this mind-bendingly surreal comedy, which occasionally descends into gloriously graphic Grand Guignol, and a very visual style that suggests Shatnerquake would make one hell of a mental movie (probably requiring, sadly, a prohibitive amount of expensive CGI to realise the multiversal incarnations of Shatner who would have to share screen time).
There are few other actors (except maybe Bruce Campbell, of course) worthy of this kind of treatment, but Burk has gone for the Big Kahuna and nailed his target perfectly, while simultaneously establishing a slightly skewed sci-fi metaverse for his characters to exist in.
He also manages to squash in a tidal wave of in-jokes and references to Shatner's broad portfolio of work, the insanity of convention life, fandom and science-fiction in general. All in about 70 pages.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
Conceptually, this should be the greatest thing ever. William Shatner must go up against his on-screen characters in a battle to the death. Unfortunately the actual writing isn't up to it.
There seems the writer didn't even proof read their own work - the odd typo might be forgiveable but the obvious continuity errors are not. It feels like a piece of fan fiction which I may have praised if it weren't for the fact that I had to pay for this!
And if you do judge this is fan fiction, who are they a fan of? Certainly not William Shatner since not only do the on-screen characters barely resemble the ones we know and love (Denny Crane repeatedly refers to himself as the world's greatest lawyer, for example, whereas anyone who's seen the show would know that he would convey that by simply stating his name... Denny Crane) but no Shatner fan would phrase everything he says...in.... broken...shatnerian...prose. Maybe one instance of it while he was out of breath to make the joke, but not every damn time.
I wanted to much to like this book, it just seemed so wonderfully funny, but there's simply nothing here I could recommend to people thinking of buying this since the best of it, the concept, is given away for free.
There seems the writer didn't even proof read their own work - the odd typo might be forgiveable but the obvious continuity errors are not. It feels like a piece of fan fiction which I may have praised if it weren't for the fact that I had to pay for this!
And if you do judge this is fan fiction, who are they a fan of? Certainly not William Shatner since not only do the on-screen characters barely resemble the ones we know and love (Denny Crane repeatedly refers to himself as the world's greatest lawyer, for example, whereas anyone who's seen the show would know that he would convey that by simply stating his name... Denny Crane) but no Shatner fan would phrase everything he says...in.... broken...shatnerian...prose. Maybe one instance of it while he was out of breath to make the joke, but not every damn time.
I wanted to much to like this book, it just seemed so wonderfully funny, but there's simply nothing here I could recommend to people thinking of buying this since the best of it, the concept, is given away for free.
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Will the real William Shatner please stand up?
"Shatnerquake" is an action-packed fun fest starring, who else, William Shatner. This hilarious concept of William Shatner fighting his on-screen personas is original and quite... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Sarah A. Shaw
Pretty Poor
Great concept, funny the first few times, but even at a novella length it got old pretty quick
Published 14 months ago by Ginger Nuts of Horror
Awful
This is awful just awful.
First thing I thought it was a full novel. It is more of a novella. Read more
First thing I thought it was a full novel. It is more of a novella. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mr. C. J. Thorpe
Does what it says on the tin!
I thought this book was chockfull of fantastic ideas, and entertainingly written. It doesnt need to be shakespeare...it has pace, ingenuity and SHATNER (in many guises). Read more
Published on 3 Sep 2009 by Ms. A. gourlay
Dire
Could have been a good idea but the story is unimaginative after the initial premise and the book doesn't seem to be proofread at all, with things on the same page being... Read more
Published on 14 Jun 2009 by Susan
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