The Price Of The Phoenix
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780552105804 (0552105805)
Publish date: 1977
Publisher: Corgi
Pages no: 182
Edition language: English
Series: Star Trek Adventures 0 (#4)
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...
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...