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Title: Vulcan's Forge (Star Trek) by Josepha Sherman, Susan Shwartz ISBN: 0-671-00927-3 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: March, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.58 (31 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Who says a Star Trek book can't be well written?
Comment: This book is highly enjoyable, well written and comes in the chronology at a painful time - just after Kirk's "death". Some people will nit-pick the details, or the addition of new characters, but on the whole this is an excellent piece of science fiction writing that can stand on its own outside the Star Trek genre. I really enjoyed this book.
Always knew Uhura had it in her. When does she get her own ship?
Why do we have to have a definitive Spock book anyway? He has evolved over time: science officer, first officer, captain, diplomat, ambassador, idealist working for unification. This spans an important gap in Spock's life and I can't wait to find out more.
Don't feel ashamed to recommend this one to your non-Trekker friends. It's just a smashing good read!
Rating: 3
Summary: Some nice characterisations but slow placed.
Comment: Some nice characterisations but it was slow and boring in places. I really tried to like Vulcan's Forge by first time Trek authors: Josepha Sherman and, Susan Shwartz but I had to force myself to finish it. It had some decent new characters in it, some good action set pieces. Commander Uhuru's captaining of the USS Intrepid against a Klingon star-ship in Spock's absence is a good example. But the narrative was dry and long winded and it meandered a fair bit. The obviously Jewish Captain David Rabin is an interesting enough character; he was sufficently different from Kirk to not make him seem like a pale imitation but enough like him to make comparisons. (His dry sense of humour for one.) The lethargic desert scenes on Obsidian and Vulcan just made me thirsty for some real Trek action, space battles and Kirk and the Enterprise crew saving the Universe. This book may have filled out some gaps in Spock's personal history and shed some more light on Vulcan culture; but it wasn't my cup of tea. Spock fans will love it though.
Rating: 2
Summary: bland, hackneyed, and disjointed
Comment: I'm a trek fan, especially TOS, and Spock is my favorite character, so I was looking forward to reading this book.
Wish I hadn't.
Loaded with cliched narrative and stale dialogue, this book reads like a tale written by a couple of teenagers: no style, no subtlety, unnecessarily verbose, lack of careful thought, and very little creativity. Very hard to achieve suspension of disbelief with such incredibly ill-conceived plot devices. Sure, everyone in Starfleet just happens to have an intimate knowledge of 20th century pop culture. How convenient!
Also, it seemed as if the authors had two plot ideas and couldn't decide which one to use, so they tried to weave both together. Bad idea.
Like other reviewers said, Uhura and McCoy helped relieve some boredom, but even their dialogue seemed forced and cookie cutter at times, "mister!" Very two-dimensional storytelling.
Lastly, the authors spend far too much time and effort trying to make political and religious statements. Just tell the story, please.
Overall, by page 100, I had to start skimming here and there to endure the writing. Can't believe these writers have such prestigious credentials. This one could've been written by a robot.
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Title: Vulcan's Heart (Star Trek) by Susan Shwartz ISBN: 0671015451 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Sarek (Star Trek) by A. C. Crispin ISBN: 0743403746 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Spock's World by Diane Duane ISBN: 0671667734 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 August, 1989 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Yesterday's Son (Star Trek, No 11) by A.C. Crispin ISBN: 0671038516 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Federation (Star Trek) by Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens ISBN: 0671894234 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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