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bookwyrm7

Doctor's Orders | Diane Duane

I'm afraid there's no cure...

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Bookwomble I've got a bad case of that! 📚🤒📚 5h

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Chittavrtti

The Entropy Effect | Vonda N. McIntyre

RamsFan1963 One of my favorite Star Trek novels 21h

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swynn

Star Trek-the Motion Picture: A Novel | Alan Dean Foster, Gene Roddenberry, Harold Livingston

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(1979) I know I'm supposed to dislike the movie but y'all, I remember going to see it (at the drive-in, kids, remind me to tell you about drive-ins sometime) and you can't tell me it wasn't awesome because man I was there. The book is not objectively good -- it has *footnotes* for crying out loud, and the prose about Ilia's pheremone powers is cringey -- but so what? I can't hear old-man-me's objections over the cheers of my inner 11-year-old.

CatLass007 It was a visually stunning film. I think that watching it on the big screen was a bit tedious after a while. But later on, I remember watching it on the small screen and enjoying it. I don‘t think Roddenberry knew how to do theatrically released movies but he definitely knew how to do television. It was just the wrong medium for the film. I remember reading the book and thinking it was ho-hum. I don‘t remember seeing Alan Dean Foster as (cont)⬇️ 1w

CatLass007 an author or co-author when I read it in when it was published (I was in high school and so many of my friends were looking forward to seeing the movie and we all were disappointed). I thought Foster did a very good job with the book adaptation of TAS. His work was superior to the James Blish adaptation of TOS. But I was so starved for Star Trek when the Blish books were published, that I read them multiple times. 1w

swynn @CatLass007 Thanks for sharing those memories! I definitely remember hearing disappointment from other fans, and would probably have shared it if I had been a little older. But yes, whatever the story's flaws the film was gorgeous. I'm not sure what role exactly Foster played in the novelization, but critical-me thinks that awkwardness in the prose hints that it's more Rodenberry's work than Foster's. 1w

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The Wounded Sky | Diane Duane

Thought I had read this one but it‘s not on my shelf. ETA Diane Duane has yet to go awry. Another excellent voyage with an underlying theme regarding the essential nature of play.

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Black Fire | Sonni Cooper

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khooliha

Star Trek Federation: The First 150 Years | David A. Goodman

A couple more thoughts on this Federation history:
1) fucking Malcolm Reed makes captain? And he expected to roll up and big dog the Organians?!
2) convergent evolution already exists on planet Earth, I don't think it's that radical to think it could exist across planets (the extent it exists with the humanoids does seem unlikely)

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khooliha

Star Trek Federation: The First 150 Years | David A. Goodman

In a book full of drawings, this page was a real lol

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tournevis

The Entropy Effect | Vonda N. McIntyre

#bookhaul 15 Star Trek books for 40$. It's a great find!

Ruthiella What a steal! 👍 2mo

tournevis @Ruthiella Amazing! 2mo

Leftcoastzen Nice haul 2mo

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tournevis @Leftcoastzen Very happy with it! 2mo

RamsFan1963 Nice haul!! I've read several of those, and still have a few on my TBR shelves 2mo

Gissy Great!🤩 2mo

tournevis @RamsFan1963 @ leftcoastzen A lot of them are doubles, but I\'m slowly preparing for the second volume I\'ll be editing on ST novels that\'s getting interest already. 2mo

tournevis @Gissy 💕 2mo

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Chittavrtti

Spock, Messiah! | Theodore R Cogswell