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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Deep Space Nine: The Never-Ending Sacrifice
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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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Focusing on reading instead of reviewing ...
First of all, sorry that there haven't been any reviews for the last 22 days, but I've been more busy with reading books and doing stuff for work and university than writing about books ;) So at least you can now look forward (if you want to that is ;) ) to reviews of "Daeadalus" and "Daedalus's children" by Dave Stern as well as "Missing in Action" by Peter David. If I find the time I will perhaps also write a short review of the first book of the Deep Space Nine Millennium series which I'm currently re-reading (because it took Amazon too long to deliver the third book of the "Worlds of Star Trek Deep Space Nine" series ;)).
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S.D. Perry's "Unity" (Part 1)
First of all: This will probably only interest StarTrek-fans as this weblog entry will be around S.D. Perry's latest addition to the DeepSpaceNine universe.
With some months of delay "Unity" finally was released a few weeks ago and I got it as soon as possible. It marks the latest book of the post-TV-series timeline of DS9 and is therefor esp. interesting if you know at least the 6th and 7th season of DS9.
I won't give a spoiler here, so everyone interested in buying this book can be sure that s/he won't miss anything after reading this and then the book :-P
I'm now somewhere around the middle of the book and it's nothing but thrilling :-) If you've read the last book of the series you'll probably know what will happen in this book ;-) Chaos, mysteries and again a lot about the religious and political situation on Bajor. But I have the impression that the situation at hand within the Federation is the focus of the first half of the book. Some aspects of the threat are cleared up, esp. some historical ones and you get to know more about the Trill and their way or un-way of interacting with other species :-P You'll also notice some strange new couples ;-) so everyone that is on the edge of buying or not-buying this book: Buy it. It's quite expensive (and only available hardcovered :-( ) but it's definitely worth the money :-)
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Unity (Part 2)
Yesterday night I finished "Unity" and it was great At least for me nearly every mystery of the original tv-series was cleared up, but now new ones are there to be solved. Also who Wex is is cleared up which was at least for me quite a suprise.
The seconds half of the book offers more action but also more psychology. IMO it is a very good mix so my statement from Part1 stays: Buy it ;-)
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Again one table removed ;-)
1080 Avalanche
If you've bought the game and are not really motivated to play it at least to the final challenge of the Expert-Races: Do it. The final challenge is alone worth nearly 20? of what you paid for the 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.
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Star Trek: Vanguard - Harbinger
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"Star Trek: Vanguard" (VAN) is a new book series telling a story about a space station in the timeframe or Kirks first 5-year mission. Starbase 47 "Vanguard" is one of the latest space stations of the UFP build in a border region more or less between the Klingon and Tholian empire called the Thaurus Reach. And no: In my opinion this isn't really a DS9 clone. True, both are about a space station somewhere on the edge of known space etc. but while DS9 has Bajor to put most of its plot in relation to, Vanguard seems to live from the exploration of a whole sector but with more or less known enemies like the Klingons and the Tholians. But the plot will probably also introduce a new power ... In DS9 it was also very clear from the beginning, why the UFP wanted to get a foothold in this sector, while in VAN it's a secret that only the reader and some people of the command staff know about. VAN in my opinion smells more like a spy/thriller story to me than the more soap oriented DS9 ;-)
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Star Trek: New Frontier - After the Fall
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Long time no read, Mr. David. Seems like Peter David thought so too and made a nice little jump in his great book series about the adventures of Captain Calhoun and the crews of the USS Excalibur and USS Titan. In fact the storyline of the latest installment of the "New Frontier" series is situated about 3 years after the events of "Stone and Anvil". Much has happened since then. For example Shelby is now an admiral, and Kebron is now a counselor ... I won't tell you much more here since part of the whole joy of reading this book came from getting to know the new-old crew, what has changed, and what not.
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Again new books on the horizon...
There are once again some new books on the horizon for me :)
- "Daedalus" by Dave Stern
- "Worlds of Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Cardassia and Andor"
- "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman
The last one in this list is actually something completely new for me. Normally I don't just look into a genre and take a book that got good reviews, but here I go. I also don't want to bore you only Star Trek books ;) This was also the book that took me the longest to put into my shopping cart since I couldn't decide whether or not I should get the german translation since this would have been 3 or 4 EUR cheaper. But just a few days ago I thought about this whole "getting translations" thing and decided for myself, that I would only then buy a translation of a book, if I simply see now chance of understanding it with or without a dictionary ... which actually means, that I will try to get books written by English, French or German authors in the original versions.
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Worlds of Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Cardassia and Andor
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All the "Worlds of Star Trek Deep Space Nine" books consist of two stories around one planet each. The first story of this book takes place on Cardassia where Chief Miles O'Brien and his family are trying to make a new home and helping the Cardassian people. During this story the reader also meets some other familiar faces like Garak and the former Gul Macet. Nice story but in my opinion nothing really special. Especially the ending somehow simply was too quick.
