The 14th book of "The New Frontier" is all about a crime that Ensign Janos seems to have committed on the U.S.S. Trident. Calhoun and Kebron refuse to accept this and so the story evolves into your usual Calhoun adventure ;-) Even the Enterprise has a guest appearance.
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Star Trek: A New Frontier - Stone and Anvil
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Bulletproof Web Design
Honestly, it was more a spontanuous idea to get this book somewhen around Christmas 2005 but judging from my previous experience with Dan Cederholm's books I thought it couldn't hurt also reading his newest guide through the deep and vivid jungle of CSS based web design. Before I get to the main part of the review, I want to talk a little bit about how I got this book first:
Normally I buy all my books on amazon.de simply because it's fast, easy and cheap. First of all I went to the .com site (don't ask me why) and found out that they want something around 22$ for it. Sure I said and made myself and my bank account ready for a small investment. Since toll sucks I went to .de and ... nearly fell from my chair: 47.90EUR!!! Ok, so I went to the website of a local bookstore and was quite suprised when I saw the same book for "only" 39.60EUR. Still about twice as expensive as on amazon.com but since I would pay nearly the other half thanks to toll and would have to wait a few weeks I asked my mom to drop by there and get my a copy (was at work at that time). Can someone please explain to me, why I have to pay twice as much for the same book here compared to what it costs on the other side of the ocean (the left one)?
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Deep Space Nine: The Never-Ending Sacrifice
The summer is finally over and autumn is on its way in. And with it comes a ton of new Star Trek books in more or less every series. Even though Simon & Schuster's new website makes it really hard to find new books, I managed to find one before the new Enterprise finds its way into my hands next week: The Never-Ending Sacrifice by Una McCormack.
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Star Trek: DS9 - The Soul Key
Once again Amazon.de outdid themselves and delivered a book that shouldn't have been out for at least 2 weeks, but I don't complain ;-) At least now I had another Star Trek book to get into and it's even a DS9 book. Fearful Symmetry, the second book (or first depending on how you count them) in the current mini-series/crossover between the Mirror Universe-timeline and the DS9-relaunch didn't impress me all that much, but I was still kind of looking forward to a continuation of that story. So here it finally is.
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Red Faction: Guerilla
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Yes, I know, I already wrote about it, but now I'm through (not at 100% but anyway), so I can make this a real review. But since I already wrote about Red Faction: Guerrilla, I will try to make this review a bit shorter since I can mostly stick with my first impression: The game is a really competent 3rd-person shooter with tons of side-missions and some strong story aspects that really motivate you to finish this game. It never gets in the way of the bombing and shooting action but it just adds the right amount of atmosphere to make you please "just 5 more minutes". -
Shrek 2
Gestern abend war ich mal wieder im Kino und zur Auswahl standen Mind Hunters und Shrek 2. Die Wahl fiel auf Shrek 2 und führte zu einem sehr unterhaltsamen Filmvergnügen der etwas grüneren Art :-) Read more about "Shrek 2" ...
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A Deepness in the Sky
After quite some time I finally dared to look outside of my usual Star Trek and Star Wars books again and discovered A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge.
The plot takes place in a very distant future (thousands of years). Earth is no longer all that important and a big part of humankind consists now of traders that make their living by finding new customers on other worlds. But in all these years, humankind has never met an advanced non-human civilization.
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Transporter 2
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For tonight I had a movie slot and since I had no motivation watching the same old movies of my collection again, I got myself "Transporter 2" from the local video shop.
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Burnout 3: A review
Well, after about 30 hours of Burnout 3 I think it's now time to give a short review about this game :-)
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Starfleet Corps of Engineers: Miracle Workers
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As my first book of the series I was quite quick by reading this. This book is basically a collection of short stories (which were AFAIK previously published as eBooks) about the crew of the U.S.S. daVinchi, which is part of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers.
