Archive for the ‘Reviews of books’ Category
Star Trek: SNW — The Scorpius Run
{4.5/5} “If our new crewman has taught us anything today… it is that logic without empathy is illogical.” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — The Scorpius Run by Ryan Parrott & Mike Johnson, published in 2024 While in the region known as the Scorpion, Captain Pike and the Enterprise respond to a distress call. They […]
To Guard Against the Dark
{4.5/5} “AllThereIs did not forget, nor forgive. There were ‘entities’ within it, Sira’d warned, who reacted to threat. When the Hoveny breached their home with devices designed to feed from its energy, those entities responded. Their defense had ended the vast Hoveny Concentrix.” To Guard Against the Dark by Julie E. Czerneda, published in 2017 […]
The Gate to Futures Past
{4.5/5} “Now we know they didn’t die off. Instead, the Hoveny hid themselves so well other spacefaring species had no idea they still existed or where. And a thousand years later, a new generation sent ships like this to Cersi — and who knows where else — in what I assure you was a very […]
This Gulf of Time and Stars
{4.5/5} “We never should have taken from them… Never ruined their minds and used them. We could have renounced the M’hir and Power; been happy as we were. Greed took us down a path with only one ending. You — were inevitable.” This Gulf of Time and Stars by Julie E. Czerneda, published in 2015 […]
Star Trek: Memory Prime
{4.5/5} “Pathfinder Two enjoyed its communication with those voices, though it found them too slow and too limited to be considered a phenomenon of real intelligence. All of life was a game and the voices accounted for some of the high points, but that was as far as Two was inclined to take matters, unlike […]
Star Trek: The Captain’s Daughter
{4.5/5} “But helmsman… steering the ship… looking straight ahead and seeing the stars clustered in front of you… that’s what I was really going out there for, Ling. For the stars. To go out there and lose myself in them.” Star Trek: The Captain’s Daughter by Peter David, published in 1995 Captain John Harriman aboard […]
Star Trek: TNG — The Sky’s the Limit
{4.5/5} “As fear drives our hated and the building of our war machine, we consume the resources that could feed and clothe our people, we misuse the wisdom of our scientists and the labors of our industries, and we extinguish the light fromour dreams of the future. There is no strength in fear. Strength arises […]
Star Trek: TNG — The Devil’s Heart
{4.5/5} “T’Sara had advised him to give up the stone, or at least to stop making use of its powers. Yet, so far he had only taken part in the dreams. Surely there was no harm in that? And perhaps the dreams could show him the way to safety.” Star Trek: The Next Generation — […]
Star Trek: TNG — Pliable Truths
{4.5/5} “If every Bajoran presented themselves as a model inmate, the Cardassians would likely assume there must be illicit activity taking place. Better for the laborers to offer the occasional misdirection in the hopes of keeping their overseers distracted from those things that needed to remain concealed.” Star Trek: The Next Generation — Pliable Truths […]
Star Trek: Lost to Eternity
{4.5/5} “Yet I remind you that we already have significant assets in play on Atraz, including a shuttlecraft, the rescue party, and Captain Kirk’s own demonstrated tenacity and resourcefulness. He has escaped captivity, and survived all manner of jeopardy, on more worlds than I have time to enumerate.” Star Trek: Lost to Eternity by Greg […]