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Title: No Limits (Star Trek New Frontier) by Peter David ISBN: 0-7434-7707-3 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a jewel
Comment: After reading Ilsa J. Bick's Well of Souls, just a terrific and griping book, I was inspired to find more of her work. Whoever said that her story in this anthology about Morgan Primus got him choked up is right on. "Alice, on the Edge of Night" just shines, and Bick's ability to get into the heads of her characters and make you care about them is truly amazing. She has a deft command of language and phrasing that left me gasping. Other people have griped about her writing, but I find it refreshing and captivating. I hope to see more by her in the Trek universe. Several reviewers at the Well of Souls website mentioned having her do a series. That's a good idea.
Other terrific stories: David Mack's Kebron story, Sherman's story about an adolescent Si Cwan, and, of course, Peter David's tale of Calhoun's and Shelby's honeymoon.
Please, someone -- do this again. With these writers. Please.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wide Variety of Imaginative Stories
Comment: In his introduction to NO LIMITS, an anthology of eighteen short stories involving the New Frontier characters, Peter David notes that when this volume was first announced some fans expressed reservations at the idea of having authors other than David himself dabbling in the New Frontier sandbox. If you've got doubts, you can put them to rest. This is an excellent collection of rewarding stories by authors who amply demonstrate that they know the characters they are writing about.
One of the pleasures of reading a large collection such as this is that the order you read the stories in doesn't matter, every time you pick the volume up there is something new and different to look forward to. Some stories will capture your imagination more than others but within the pages of NO LIMITS the reader gets to experience a little bit of everything--comedy, drama, action and adventure. The various authors effectively use their individual storytelling styles to explore key moments in the characters lives, and every story to some degree just adds to the overall tapestry of New Frontier. And while my own personal favorites of the collection, "Waiting for G'Doh", "Q'uandary", "Lefler's Logs", "Performance Appraisal", "Making a Difference", "The Road to Edos", "A Little Getaway" and "Out of the Frying Pan", may not be your own, I have no doubts that anyone reading NO LIMITS should find plenty to satisfy.
Rating: 4
Summary: Varied, but overall, quite solid.
Comment: I tend to avoid short story collections, as short story collections tend to vary in quality; but this is a collection of short stories set in the Star Trek: New Frontier series that was crafted by Peter David, and since he was the editor, I gave it a shot. Lately, as another reviewer has mentioned, I have been frustrated with where the series is going (too heavy handed, too humerous in a blunt way), but these stories were a complete change of pace, and in a very good way. They are reminiscent of the DS9 relaunch, where various authors have obviously been given an outline to follow, but granted creative expression.
The stories take turns with the various characters of the New Frontier cast, and as such, I found some of them quite interesting (Shelby switching from engineering to command track, a diary-entry story featuring Lefler, a really solid bit of character study for McHenry), but others, based on characters I couldn't really care all that much for (Kebron, Si Cwan), just didn't do much for me.
However, a few of the stories blew me away. Most notably, the one about Morgan Primus (Robin Lefler's immortal mother), was done with such a deft touch of emotionality that I actually got choked up, which is rare enough with Star Trek in general, but very rare in short story Trek fiction. I honestly place it on a level with the TNG episode "The Inner Light." Yes, that good. I, too, will be seeking more stories from Ilsa J. Bick.
Which brings me around to the good part about short story collections - that you often meet a new author worthy of more research and reading. All in all this was quite good, and if you're an anal collector of Trek such as myself, you'll want it.
'Nathan
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Title: Gods Above (Star Trek New Frontier) by Peter David ISBN: 0743418581 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Prophecy and Change (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) by Marco Palmieri ISBN: 0743470737 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Unity (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) by S.D. Perry ISBN: 0743448405 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Well of Souls (Star Trek: The Lost Era, 2336) by Ilsa J. Bick ISBN: 0743463757 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Art of the Impossible (Star Trek: The Lost Era, 2328-2346) by Keith R.A. DeCandido ISBN: 0743464052 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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