This anthology has come in for more than its share of disdain. I once saw an editor for the later published Strange New Worlds express contempt for it. These stories, after all, have a fanzine feel, several were first published in fanzines, as you might know seeing them mentioned in Star Trek Lives!...
I loved The Price of the Phoenix, the book this is the sequel to, in all its cheesy glory and its slashy subtext. It might have helped I was a teenage girl when I first read it, and a fan of the original series before it was reborn in film and new franchises such as Next Generation. Back then, books...
I wasn't sure how to rate this, because it's both a favorite, but a guilty favorite; not exactly the best science fiction, or even Star Trek fiction, has to offer: it's melodramatic and over the top with slashy overtones between Kirk and Spock. But it's very memorable, and I remember eating it up as...
I once saw an editor for the later published Strange New Worlds express contempt for the New Voyages anthologies. These stories, after all, have a fanzine feel, several in the first volume were first published in fanzines, as you might know seeing the titles mentioned in Star Trek Lives! the book ab...
This was the first official collection of original Star Trek short stories. "Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited" and "Face on the Barroom Floor" are the real standouts for me. All are a tad dated and obviously written as proto-fan fiction, but the book is a fun read for any Trekked.
*3 Stars* (close to being 2.5)*The Gush* What makes this book Star Trek, the philosophy surrounding the plot, is really good. The idea, the historical examples used, and the arguments given by many of the characters are thought provoking and really quite good. It's the rest of the plot that...doesn'...
*5 Stars* I can't believe it but I have to.*The Gush* OH THANK GOD! Just as I was about to give up all hope and abandon Star Trek novels for good (see review for Covenant of the Crown), this book showed up next in the series to reaffirm my faith in 'trekness' and help me jump on the bandwagon for mo...
An astonishing book, no less so because it has that same inability to realize concrete detail, the same abstraction of characterization that I have noticed in this pair's other stuff. And the reason for this is absolutely clear - in the first 20 pages, we have things which most writers would shrink...
[These notes were made in 1983:]. I think I more or less expended my comments on The Price of the Phoenix. This is more of the same. The setting has changed from the labyrinths of an underground settlement to the labyrinths of an "anomaly" in space, but the labyrinths of emotion are identical. Th...
[These notes were made in 1983:]. The ladies strike again! Although, in fact, two of the stories this time around are by men, the dominant sensibility of this volume is - even more strikingly than the last - that peculiar insistence on personal emotion which reaches its absurdest (and most gratifyi...
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