In what is the biggest undead author cameo since Zombie Shakespeare, George R.R. Martin makes a brief appearance in an upcoming episode of the zombie apocalypse series Z Nation. In his cameo, the A Song of Ice and Fire writer plays a zombified version of himself, sentenced to a lifetime of imprisonment in a small room and using his muscle memory to autograph novels. I have hundreds of these! Im gonna make tons of money when eBay comes back, his captor brags.
In the world of Z Nation, Martin is turned into a zombie after attempting to flee Comic-Con after the outbreak. Remarkably, this isnt the first time a dead/undead Martin has appeared on SyFy: The author was previously killed offthis summer in Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No, a decapitation sequence that was inspired by the fate of Ned Stark in Game of Thrones. The Martin-featuring episode of Z Nation will air Friday on SyFy.