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I picked this up out of the box of junk books for old times' sake, as I did attempt to track down and read all the 'Star Trek' novels at one point -- weirdly, since I don't believe I'd ever seen any of the TV episodes at that stage! (I did spot a few repeats flying past in the schedules later on and watched some of them, but frankly they really didn't make much of an impression, while the earlier films confused me horribly owing to not having seen the TV: my 'Star Trek' fandom, such as it was, proved to be an almost entirely literary experience, and was just enough to enable me to appreciate "Galaxy Quest" as a spoof as well as the excellent SF story it is in its own right.)
I can only assume that I took up reading 'Star Trek' because at one point these tie-in novels constituted a good half of the somewhat meagre science-fiction offerings at the local library; anyway, I did read them, and actually drew up a list to record which ones I'd tracked down and which hadn't turned up yet† -- complicated by the fact that they apparently renumbered the series at some point, so that Book 17 in one listing might be Book 2 in the original order. I never did get all of them despite peregrinations around various libraries, but I enjoyed most of them well enough as a standalone SF series, and got to know the regular characters quite well. (My favourite was Spock -- of course. But what that unfortunate man had to put up with... not least from some of the authors!)
There were a few ex-library paperbacks in the box, and I picked out "The Entropy Effect" because the blurb sounded the most promising and because I recognised the author, Vonda N. McIntyre: various leading SF novelists either started out writing Star Trek novels or moonlighted in that universe, and I thought she was one of them.
( Annoyingly bad, frustratingly good )
I can only assume that I took up reading 'Star Trek' because at one point these tie-in novels constituted a good half of the somewhat meagre science-fiction offerings at the local library; anyway, I did read them, and actually drew up a list to record which ones I'd tracked down and which hadn't turned up yet† -- complicated by the fact that they apparently renumbered the series at some point, so that Book 17 in one listing might be Book 2 in the original order. I never did get all of them despite peregrinations around various libraries, but I enjoyed most of them well enough as a standalone SF series, and got to know the regular characters quite well. (My favourite was Spock -- of course. But what that unfortunate man had to put up with... not least from some of the authors!)
There were a few ex-library paperbacks in the box, and I picked out "The Entropy Effect" because the blurb sounded the most promising and because I recognised the author, Vonda N. McIntyre: various leading SF novelists either started out writing Star Trek novels or moonlighted in that universe, and I thought she was one of them.
( Annoyingly bad, frustratingly good )
