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Title: Gemworld Book Two of Two (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 59) by John Vornholt ISBN: 0-671-04271-8 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: STNG #59 Gemworld Book 2 - A good conclusion!
Comment: As with the first book of this mini duology, John Vornholt continues to expound on the wonderful world he has created in Gemworld. In the first book he described only a few of the quite interesting and different species of Gemworld. In book two, he craftily brings the remaining species into the spotlight. As with book one of the Gemworld mini duology and with all of his previous novels, John Vornholt again proves that he can create whole new microcosms within the Star Trek universe, capitalizing on the possibilities of the twenty fourth century and what the future of space travel can entail. Of the entire myriad of outstanding Star Trek authors, John Vornholt stands out in the arena of bringing the oddest of creatures to sentience and cunningly scribing them into a well thought and compelling story or stories.
The premise:
Continuing where Star Trek # 58 Gemworld Book One left off, Captain Picard, Lieutenant Melora Pazlar and the most unlikely of heroes Lieutenant Reginald Barclay are deep in the quagmire of trying to save Melora's home world of Gemworld. Facing a dimensional rift that is seemingly encompassing the entirety of the planet, deceit and deception of those they're trying to help and no apparent means of escape, Captain Picard and crew must find a way to gather the remaining crystals from all six of the sentient species inhabiting Gemworld in order to shut down the shell protecting Gemworld. Combine all of these possibilities and it all adds up to another fairly compelling story by one of Star Trek's better authors.
I highly recommend this mini duology to those who read as many or all of the Star Trek novels and to those who are casual Trek readers. {ssintrepid}
Rating: 5
Summary: ST-TNG: Gemworld Book #2
Comment: Star Trek-The Next Generation: Gemworld Book #2 written by John Vornholt is the conclusion to the 2 part series called Gemworld. Gemworld is a multifariousness of crystaline structures and the book is written with a vivid and colorful descrition of them.
The main characters are Lieutenant Reginald Barclay and Captain Jean-Luc Picard in this book as they embark on a hazardous trek to find the causal effect that is dooming Gemworld. As mentioned in the first book there are six sentient races of beings interwoven in the Gemworld, one humanoid the Elaysians and five non-humanoid the Alpusta, Frills, Lipuls, Yilterns, and Gendii. Picard/Barclay try to get the engineers of these races involved in the solution of the problem with Gemworld; but there is a mass murderer afoot... determined to destroy all of Gemworld.
This is a well-written book and the plot moves right along, full of action-adventure with mystery and intrigue placed within the story for spice making for a well-told, engrossing, and a desperate quest on a planet in turmoil. I gave it 5 stars for its imagination as well as a well-written story.
I wish only one thing and that would be that both of these books could have been incorporated into one longer novel making for a single purchase, but the money gods at pocket books new they could get the TREK reader to buy both. Other than that, Genworld is a good story to add to your TREK library.
Rating: 3
Summary: Control Alt Delete
Comment: The first of this two part series deserved the benefit of the doubt as the story is by definition left incomplete. The incomplete resolution of this second book makes the pair of books a low priority for any fan who enjoys reading these installments, for book #2 would be handicapped enough if it was not such a cliché, and did not use so much material fans have seen before. The solution to the problem is almost laughably poor.
Mr. Barclay is now completely fallen for his new love, Commander Deanna Troi has once again had her empathic powers damaged (sound familiar), and, you guessed it, a rip in space/time is the menace that once again gets recycled by authors who have no imagination for something new.
I will keep this brief as the book is not worthy of your time. The ending is one of the weakest I have read in any Trek adventure, and to make matters worse a great deal of the book is recycled from other stories you have either seen on television or possibly read before. Some have suggested that the movies could be judged by whether they were an even or odd number in the series. I think that perhaps how bad the cover art is may also be a way of judging these books. I know it goes against a long held and valued saying about how not to judge a book or anything else. But when the cover art is poor and not by a talented artist or a well-known one, perhaps the unwillingness to invest in the visual presentation should be a clue for what may lie within.
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Title: Tooth and Claw (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 60) by Doranna Durgin ISBN: 0671042114 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Requiem (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 32) by Michael Jan Friedman, Kevin Ryan ISBN: 0671795678 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: A Time to Be Born (Star Trek The Next Generation) by John Vornholt ISBN: 0743467655 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Time to Die (Star Trek The Next Generation) by John Vornholt ISBN: 0743467663 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Time to Harvest (Star Trek The Next Generation) by Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore ISBN: 0743482980 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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