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Title: Strange New Worlds V by Dean Smith ISBN: 0743437780 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25
Rating: 1
Summary: Garbage
Comment: This will definitely be the last "Strange New World" collection I will buy as the series has really reached its' nadir here. Once again it is full of the soap opera garbage that has plagued Star Trek for more than a decade. Star Trek was always about action, adventure, intelligent ideas and yes ... strange new worlds. This pile of rubbish, apart from the odd bright spot, has almost none of that. It actually makes me almost ashamed to call myself a "Trekker" when I read this kind of material, but then what else can you expect from a generation raised on "Beverley Hills 90210" ?!!! Of course the real villains in this travesty are the editors who prove once again they are completely out of touch with what makes good Star Trek. The grand prize winner in this collection is a seven page story, fifty percent of which is just a transcribed version of a scene from the Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever". Now the Oxford English dictionary defines "plagiarism" as "to appropriate (ideas, passages, etc.) from (another work or author)." If this is not a clear case of that then what is, and to make this the grand prize winner is an insult to everyone who submitted genuine original ideas, good or bad. Personally if I was Harlan Ellison I'd be reaching for the phone to call my lawyer about this one. As a librarian by profession I take a very dim view of this kind of thing, and as far as I am concerned this collection clearly crossed the line, which is why I certainly will not be wasting any more money on future editions.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant idea, brilliant stories!!
Comment: The concept of building a yearly anthology of Star Trek stories written by fans is sheer brilliance. The unbelievable imaginations at work here only serve to produce some of the best Trek fiction to date. This particular volume, SNW V, is wonderful. Having been the only one I've gotten my hands on, I can't compare it to the others. I can, however, tell you that the creativity, originality, and enjoyability of these stories is endless.
At the end, the editor includes information on entering your own story into next year's competition. It's all so wonderful, yet so adequately priced, too. A must have for all Star Trek fans!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Best SNW to date
Comment: The fifth Strange New Worlds anthology is the best to date. Although previous volumes have given us exceptional individual stories, such as "Isolation Ward 4" in SNW4 and "Whatever You Do, Don't Read This Story" in SNW3, this volume is excellent from start to finish.
There are stories from all five of the Trek series, which is sur[prising, considering how close to the October deadline for submissions the premier of Enterprise was. Yet these stories are some of the best in the book. For TOS fans, there's a visit to City on the Edge of Forever, and an exploration of just what kind of person voluteers to be a "redshirt" even knowing their high mortality rate. TNG deals with everything from investigating a new Leonardo da Vinci to Dixon Hill -- the real one, not Picard playing Dixon Hill -- saving the Enterprise. Voyager stories deal with the homecoming from two different angles and tie up a lot of loose ends left in the Delta quadrant -- including a wonderful resolution for Kes that more than makes up for the Fury. Sadly, there is only one DS9 story, but it is one of the best in the book -- set after the end of the series. All around a truly great collection and hopefully an indicator of things to come from Strange New Worlds and the fans who love to write about them.
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Title: The Amazing Stories (Star Trek) by John J. Ordover, Star Trek Books ISBN: 0743449150 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds IV (Star Trek) by Dean Wesley Smith, John J. Ordover, Paula M. Block ISBN: 0743411315 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Strange New Worlds III (Star Trek) by Dean Wesley Smith, John J. Ordover, Paula M. Block ISBN: 0671036521 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Mission Gamma Book One : Twilight by David R. George III ISBN: 0743445600 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Strange New Worlds VI by Dean Wesley Smith, John J. Ordover, Paula M. Block ISBN: 0743467531 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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