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Title: Wing Commander: The Novel (Movie Universe, Book 1) by Peter Telep, Mike Finch, Kevin Droney, Chris Roberts ISBN: 0-06-105985-4 Publisher: Harper Mass Market Paperbacks Pub. Date: March, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (28 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Peter Telep raises the bar for Wing Commander books
Comment: The WC universe has finally found itself an author who respects the source material and who can also tell one hell of a story - and the fan's have never had it so good. While Baen's Wing Commander novels usually cause the more fanatical WingNuts headaches with their continuity errors, this movie adaptation does just the opposite; it actually takes time to explain such problems caused by the movie's script! (according to the movies producers they 'ignored' much of the original material - thank Sivar Peter Telep didn't). Of course, the writing also shines - anyone familiar with Peter Telep's previous books (Space: Above and Beyond, Descent) knows he can tell a great war story. I'm eagerly looking forward to the second book in the series, so we can see what the author can do without having to base everything around a movie script!
Rating: 5
Summary: Peter Telep Drives
Comment: I have never read or known anything about the Wing Commander universe until I saw the movie which left me eagerly awaiting to learn more. After reading thso novel, I felt full again. Now to preamble this review, it is generally that the novel of the movie far exceeds it and it is true once again of the work of Peter Telep. I can understand that any fanatic finds fault with incoming authors so it's best that I am bringing a completely new point of view coming here, leaving alone Chris Robert's movie script and concentrating on the storytelling of the author. Peter Telep's, work, I find to be inspired and driving as he easily dramatizes war with the decrepit and dark events cascading onto people--along with ship hull plating. He meticulously constructs his characters with each their own sorrow past, reflections of wars long ago, and then drives in the conscious rendering of how each person copes with his or her situation in the present. Each finds their own avenue of choice. Although the book remains albeit of dynamic story telling, (seeing the enemy Kilrathi's point of view is quite refreshing and all the time gives you a bigger broad of what it was like for them) Telep continuously paints out the emotions and actions on a level most efficient with war. Feeling that both sides of the battle, Confederation and Kilrathi, both suffer the same kind of agony, pain, and vengeance, Telep drives in the heart of his version of Wing Commander. Aside from the characters, the plot moves undulating with brilliant battles and scenes alive, although the landscape of space was not as unique or detailed as some Sci-Fi authors. Telep can find interesting ways of rewording the destruction of Dralthi fighters or Rapiers so that the story doesn't feel repetitive. He highly details the fighters yaws and pitches fully to the pilot's reactions, a technique of accuracy with enhances his story as if you were there with Blair in his Rapier or Gerald on the bridge in dead still and quiet. The book is a vibrant tableau of war hell. The ending is honorable as it pulls you in to really want to experience the next chapters. After, I myself, 'enduring' the extent of the hate of Pilgrams and this total unanswered void of Confederation and Pilgrim chaos, I find myself eagerly awaiting Telep's next novel and seeing what Pilgram Stars will lay ahead.
Rating: 5
Summary: My insights
Comment: The Wingcommander universe is a bold step away from what most of us are used to. It awakens the mind with its innovations. The fact that Christopher Blair is a minority member deeply imapacts me and puts a new human face on the normally all white Scifi universe. The courage that it took to jump a garavity well must have been a monumental leap for the farm boy of Nephele. Other than Lord of the rings, this book tells a story of more courage than any other book I've read. It is so deeply moving that I hope you'll read it too.
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Title: Pilgrim Stars (Wing Commander: Movie Universe, Book 2) by Peter Telep, Chris Roberts ISBN: 0061059862 Publisher: Harper Mass Market Paperbacks Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Action Stations: A Wing Commander Novel (Wing Commander) by William R. Forstchen ISBN: 067187859X Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Heart of the Tiger (Wing Commander) by William R. Forstchen, Andrew Keith ISBN: 0671876538 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: FALSE COLORS by Forstchen & keith ISBN: 0671577840 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: End Run (Wing Commander) by Christopher Stasheff, William R. Forstchen, Bill Forstchen ISBN: 067172200X Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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