Tag: book

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  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Fearful Symmetry

    Posted on July 17, 2008 at 22:00 +0200 Tagged with , , ,

    I will try not to spend too much time on this book here since I'm rather pissed right now. When "Warpath", which was released in March 2006, ended it was quite clear in what direction the next book would go: the mirror universe and the whole story behind Iliana Ghemor. This book does at least the later, but leaves the first one open to the next books ... and that's my problem with "Fearful Symmetry" by Olivia Woods. The book doesn't really progress the story. It answers basically all questions you could have had about Illiah, but the actual timeline progression is veeery minimal. I guess I couldn't even spoil anything here even if I tried.

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  • Star Trek: Mirror Universe - Glass Empires

    Posted on June 28, 2008 at 15:32 +0200 Tagged with , , ,

    Cover picture taken from OpenLibrary.orgIf you remember how the TOS episode "Mirror, Mirror" ended it had introduced a whole new universe to the world of Star Trek: The mirror universe, where everyone was more or less the evil counterpart of the universe Star Trek fans were used to. When 30 years later the Deep Space Nine episode Crossover) continued the plot, it just gave small hints of what happened in between and between the Enterprise double-episode In a Mirror, Darkly and "Mirror, Mirror". And this is exactly where the two "Mirror Universe" books, Glass Empires [OL] and Obsidian Alliances come in.

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  • Star Trek TNG: Q & A

    Posted on Jan. 14, 2008 at 21:38 +0100 Tagged with , ,

    One of the longest story-lines in the Star Trek universe is definitely the one about those almighty beings called the Q. They, together with their most well known representative Q (portraid by John de Lancie), had their first appearance right in the first episode of the second Star Trek show: Star Trek: The Next Generation and since then appeared in not only a couple of other TNG-episodes (including the last one) but also in DS9 and Voyager. With Q & A Keith R.A. DeCandido extends the world surrounding the Q Continuum with another story that brings Q again down onto Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise to finally explain some things.

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  • Gears of War Prequel as Book

    Posted on Jan. 2, 2008 at 20:24 +0100 Tagged with ,

    Just read on Joystiq about Gears of War getting a prequel book ... I'm really not sure if I should be excited about it or not. The story of the game was quite interesting for me and the end was definitely tailored in a way to make the game open to novells and stuff. Nothing heard about it yet but if this book is mostly about the background of Marcus Fenix and also about why he supposedly became a "traitor", I'm not really interested. And given that the title of the book is supposed to be "The Pendulum Wars" it's quite a fair guess :-(

    Over several decades, the Pendulum Wars took place between various human countries, and ended with the Coalition of Ordered Governments (COG) taking control of the planet. The war quickly came to an end on "Emergence Day", when a ravenous force known as the Locust Horde bursts from underneath major human cities using a network of underground tunnels.

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    So I guess nothing new about the Locust in there, something that would have been (at least for me) way more interesting.

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  • Star Trek TNG: Death in Winter

    Posted on Dec. 20, 2007 at 19:51 +0100 Tagged with , , ,

    Next book in my travel to Star Trek literature and again a TNG book. Death in Winter is set right after the end of Nemesis or even I guess after Trust yourself when all men doubt you, the last story in the TNG anniversary anthology The Sky's the Limit with Captain Picard trying to deal with his close friend and secret love (secret for whom isn't really the question here, I guess) transferring over to SF Medical.

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  • Star Trek: TNG: The Sky's the Limit

    Posted on Dec. 2, 2007 at 14:18 +0100 Tagged with , , ,

    So Star Trek: The Next Generation is now 20 years old (which probably makes it just a little bit last generation ...) and CBS and Simon & Schuster take this anniversary as an opportunity for releasing a couple of TNG-related books. The first one I got is Star Trek: TNG: The Sky's the Limit

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  • Star Trek: Vulcan's Soul II - Exiles

    Posted on Sept. 22, 2007 at 10:12 +0200 Tagged with , , , ,

    The second book of the "Vulcan's Soul" trilogy is once again a book for those of you out there, who might want to get to know the Vulcan people a little bit better. Or especially their history, for that matter. Luckily it's now also available as paperback, so you can save some money compared to the horrendously expensive hard-cover version :D

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  • Star Trek: Titan - Orion's Hounds

    Posted on Jan. 21, 2006 at 08:01 +0100 Tagged with , , ,

    Just one thing before I start writing about the 3rd entry in the Titan series: I will probably start writing about every single book I buy this year and if it's just for one single reason: When I made the topic about my Star Trek book of 2005 I had a big problem: I had actually now clue, what books I've read last year so I just picked the ones where I was quite sure that I'd got them in 2005. This time things should become easier with a post for each and every book I care to write about (I somehow doubt that any other book will become my book of 2006 ;)).

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