I just ordered a copy. Because that's the most amazing thing to happen to the world since, well, William Shatner.

That sounds like it could be beyond awesome, or absolute shit.

I'm hoping for the former, but will try to keep my expectations low in case it turns out to be the latter.

Shouldn't you be using this for FFF, since it will obviously have a tender love-making scene between the Shat and Chris Pine, both in their Starfleet uniforms?

Honestly, I think they're trying to tap into the Pride & Prejudice & Zombies market. Unless this is superbly written, I think it's going to be crap.

That being said, if we're going to take a Sci Fi icon and make the "real life" version of said icon into a novel's protagonist, let's use Philip K. Dick. Like this:

http://io9.com/5217907/the-third-fictional-coming-of-philip-k-dick

Imperfect cover art? You are... kind. The only similarities between that guy and William Shatner is that they are both old, white, and male. Beyond that they really couldn't be more different. If the name Shatner wasn't on the cover 4 times, I would never have thought to connect the two.

OH if only he fought zombies. Someday my dream will come true. The magical dream of "Zombishat" the novel.

Hopefully that's as far as they take it because a Zombishat porno sounds like a nightmare.

Well Gass, obviously this guy and the Zombie Jane Austen dude need to collaborate.

Also, are the title and plot supposed to be plays on Vonnegut's Time Quake? If so, WTF?

you, my friend, are an American Hero!

"all of the characters ever played by William Shatner are suddenly sucked into our world"

Is this even possible? It would be like "The Alternative Factor" where the two versions of Lazarus, or in this case, the Great and Powerful Shat meet and the universe shudders out of existence for a second. I wonder if that is part of the story. The universe would explode from awesomeness.

Now we just need a film version a la "My Name is Bruce"!

Oh, so if you're part of a terrorist cult that worships Bruce Campbell all of a sudden you're "crazy"! Pfft!

I have had a extraordinarily terrible day and the triple "William Shatner" byline was enough to improve it 300%. Danke.

Does that mean Denny Crane as well? Even if it doesn't, dear god I must own this, now.

Torn between being horrified and having to own this now.

The iffy image may be due to a legal issue.

LOVING IT.

Live long and prosper, bitches.

Looks who's in it... beyond freakin aweosome!

Featuring: Captain Kirk, TJ Hooker, Denny Crane, Rescue 911 Shatner, Singer Shatner, Shakespearean Shatner, Twilight Zone Shatner, Cartoon Kirk, Esperanto Shatner, Priceline Shatner, SNL Shatner, and – of course – William Shatner!

I'm sorry, but if Captain Kirk and Denny Crane exist in the same universe, this might seriously rape my brain.

I'm buying this book NOW

This sounds awesome! I bought my copy at Amazon.com

I'm kind of expecting this book to be terrible but if there are a number of favorable reviews I may buy it, even if everyone hates it I'll still probably get it out of curiosity.

For some reason if this book becomes a big hit I wouldn't be surprised if they did a film adaption.

The two Shatners left standing at the end of it all? Captain Kirk and Shatner from "Kingdom of the Spiders". I'm calling it now.

Hi, everyone! I'm the author, Jeff Burk. Thanks so much for the interest in the book!

If you want to get a copy of Shatnerquake
Amazon also has it here

William Shatner is, quite simply, a god who walks the Earth.

And Jeff, I'm gonna have to check this out.

I think Denny Crane would HATE James T. Kirk.

That's just my opinion.

I just checked out Jeff's website. It has a reading from the book . . . . and it's really funny! I had no idea that the "bizarro fiction" genre even existed. Check out the Machoponi book on the bizzaro fiction website. I'm tempted to order that one too!

"Shatner" doesn't even look like a real word by this point in the comments. I'm looking at it going, "No. That's not his name. 'Shatner' isn't really a name.

Check out the other books at bizarrocentral.com. They have The Faggiest Vampire, The Haunted Vagina, and Rampaging Fuckers of Everything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere. Great stuff.

I'm sure he forgot Shanter's character in Columbo. He played an actor who committed murder.
The Columbo-Shatner was gloriously wicked.

...did the author forget to include Jake Cardigan from the TekWar teleseries, or did the blurb just miss him out?

ALL the characters?

Don't forget the overacting possum from Over The Hedge.

Also, Evil Kirk from "Mirror Mirror".

They should so get Chris Pine for the movie version.

Hoserlu on youtube (and hoserlu.com) has a couple Mego-based Trek shorts up, and one of them has Kirk being defended by Crane.

It's a two-parter, beginning is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DbKJ-eh6z0

Any Star Trek action figure enthusiast will tell you that Shatner's face is a very difficult one to accurately render in art. None of the Kirk figures ever produced really look like Shatner, while many of the other characters resemble the actors.

Shatner! The man is a genius! Who else could have made a living essentially playing... himself. And what a great sense of humor he has, too. ;)

For anyone who enjoys fiction about SF fandom, check out "Loving Who" from Mojocastle Press, now available in paperback at Amazon.com as well.

Did you by any chance get permission from CBS to use Kirk in this book? If not and since you are selling it, you will be considered guilty of copyright violation. Also did you get permission for all the other characters Shatner has played as well?

Just started the book...fucking hilarious.

Just started the book. It's about 74 pages of actual print and it's not very well written (nor is it at all funny). I give Burk props for getting his stuff out there, but the concept is 100 times better than the execution.

My wife just got us 2 copies, and it was glorious... and from the "colorful" list at the end of the book, we'll have new reading for quite some time (for a teaser, see Avantpunkarmy's post above)

Интересный пост, спасибо вам. Интересует только вопрос - будет ли продолжение? :)