{"id":5214,"date":"2014-06-30T21:11:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T01:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=5214"},"modified":"2014-06-30T21:11:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T01:11:49","slug":"star-trek-the-wounded-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/star-trek-the-wounded-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: The Wounded Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

{4\/5} “Ever since we came out, I keep expecting to walk through things like a ghost — because I was somewhere so much more real and solid than physical reality that I could see through my hands, couldn’t touch or move anything… The — country — I don’t know where it was. It burned my eyes. The edges on everything were sharp as shadows in space. Colors — were almost a torment. Stars would have looked pastel by comparison. It was a terrible place… And I’d give anything I can think of to get back there again.”<\/p>\n

Captain Kirk and the Enterprise have been given the honour to test a brand new inversion drive, invented by the Hamalki, which will allow them to visit another galaxy. K’t’lk, a Hamalki who looks like a large glass spider, is onboard for the test. The test is successful — they find themselves looking at the Milky Way from the outside. But the test has also caused a tear in the universe — and another universe is converging with ours, which will end all life as we know it.<\/p>\n

Star Trek: The Wounded Sky<\/strong> by Diane Duane was published in 1983.<\/p>\n

The current books in the Titan<\/strong><\/a> series feature a crew of many species — but Duane did it here first, as she features a plethora of species on the Enterprise.<\/p>\n

I like the descriptions of what happened during the inversions. The characters find themselves somewhere else — and someone else.<\/p>\n

The language is a bit more poetic than the average Star Trek<\/strong> book. There’s also quite a bit of scientific and philosophical discussion.<\/p>\n

It’s more about the characters and atmosphere than the plot. It didn’t grab me quite as much as other books I’ve read lately but it was worth reading.<\/p>\n

I’ve read all of Duane’s other Star Trek<\/strong> books, including her masterpiece Spock’s World<\/strong>, but somehow hadn’t gotten around to this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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