Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Spock's World by Diane Duane ISBN: 0-671-66773-4 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 August, 1989 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.34 (32 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good SF, poor Star Trek
Comment: I guess someone has to disagree...
Diane Duane is one of the better writers to work on the Trek novels. Her skill as a writer, at creating characters and at creating an intriguing history for an alien world, is hard to miss and is welcome in a series of books that often lacks such skill.
However, the characters are not the ones we know from Trek. The Vulcan she creates, where the repression of emotions is replaces by a simple control of them, is a long way from the Vulcan we've seen on TV and in the films. She might be right in not liking the inconsistencies or the oversimplifications of Trek, but we don't read these books for a reinvention of the ideas but for a mere refinement. Whatever world she's writing about, it's not cold, logical Vulcan in the end.
Still, you could do worse than this book. Duane is no PAD or Reeves-Stevens & Reeves-Stevens in terms of plot, but few can match her skill with words.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful insite to Vulcan and Spock.....
Comment: This informative as well as historic account of Vulcan and how it came to be, makes you understand Spock, his bond to Kirk, his relationship with his father and his respect for change.
You must read this book to understand Vulcan and how it related to Romulus. You should read this book to understand Spock. You should read this book to understand why Star Fleet was his only option at a life of his own.
A must read for any serious Star Trek fan. Read also Sarek which is a great partner to this book. Again, a must read!
Rating: 5
Summary: Vulcan history made in the past and present.
Comment: This is the novel that put the history of Spock's home planet Vulcan on paper for the first time. Stated more correctly, it's one author's view of what Vulcan's past might have been like.
It might even be two whole novels in one.
In the "Enterprise" novel, which takes place somewhere between Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek II, the Enterprise is diverted to Vulcan after receiving news that the planet is considering withdrawl from the Federation. Spock and his father, Ambassador Sarek, find themselves torn between their duties to Vulcan and their loyalties to Starfleet and the Federation.
The events of the "Vulcan" novel occur over the course of history, from the appearance of the first Vulcans, to the life of Surak, to Sarek's marriage to Amanda, and finally to Spock's birth. This part of the novel is harder to read, since one would have to be a true Vulcan history buff to really completely understand. It is fortunate that on the audio edition, Leonard Nimoy, in character as Spock, gives us abbreviated versions of some of the historical data. Nevertheless, this is considered to be a fascinating book...no pun intended.
 |
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 |
 |
Title: Vulcan's Forge (Star Trek) by Josepha Sherman, Susan Shwartz ISBN: 0671009273 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
 |
Title: Vulcan's Heart (Star Trek) by Susan Shwartz ISBN: 0671015451 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
 |
Title: Sarek (Star Trek) by A. C. Crispin ISBN: 0743403746 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
 |
Title: Time for Yesterday (Star Trek, Book 39) by A.C. Crispin ISBN: 0671038575 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
