Strangers from the Sky
In the twenty-first centruy humanity has united after countless years of warfare, and turns toward the stars. But when an alien spacecraft crashlands in the South Pacific bearing visitors from another world, the Vulcans, Earth must decide whether to extend the hand of friendship, or the fist of...
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In the twenty-first centruy humanity has united after countless years of warfare, and turns toward the stars. But when an alien spacecraft crashlands in the South Pacific bearing visitors from another world, the Vulcans, Earth must decide whether to extend the hand of friendship, or the fist of war. In the distant future, horrible dreams torment Admiral James T. Kirk, dreams prompted by his reading of "Strangers From the Sky", a book about that historic first contact. He dreams of an alternate reality where he somehow changed the course of history, and destroyed the Federation before it began.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9781416524632 (1416524630)
Publish date: August 25th 2006
Publisher: Star Trek
Pages no: 402
Edition language: English
Series: Star Trek: The Original Series 3
An incredibly convoluted book and yet excellently done. I could not put this book down.
Longer and more complex than the standard ST novel, Strangers from the Sky is a novel within a novel; that is, Strangers from the Sky is also the title of a work of purported non-fiction concerning the first contact of Vulcan and Earth. The reading of this text triggers suppressed memories in Kirk a...
[These notes were made in 1987:]. One of the better Star Trek books I've read, this is an ambitious tome of over 400 pages. It covers three times in the ST universe: mid twenty-first century, just before first contact was made with the Vulcans; early in the career of Kirk and Spock, just before the...
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