Dark, brutal and raw. This is a young adult novel for young adults with a lot of spine. The story takes place on a spaceship called the Australia. The people on the ship have no knowledge of where they are going or hope of leaving the ship. They just know that they can’t go back … Continue reading
Well, this was another adventure on Deep Space 9. Sometimes I long for a book where nothing much happens and they get through the week without impending Cardassian invasion or some other problem that threatens to blow up the Space Station. They are just very lucky to have the ever-resourceful Captain Sisko on hand. The … Continue reading
Well, this was very exciting! A Deep Space 9 book that totally breaks with the usual formula! I was on tenterhooks all the way through. I never thought I would say it, but this was actually a gripping read. It starts with Sisko and Kira watching a new starship being built on Bajor. Now, as … Continue reading
Guess what? There is a killer on the loose in Deep Space 9!! Who’d’ve thought it? Well, actually this time, in a clever twist on a tried and tested formula, the killer is actually a disease rather than a person. And the millions of people dying are mostly children on Bajor. When the Cardassians (invading … Continue reading
I think the word “tosh” may have been created specifically so that one day I could use it to describe this book. I wasn’t a fan of the X-Files when it was on TV and this book, based on the series, has done nothing to make me reassess my opinions. The premise of the story … Continue reading
We’ve read a lot of Star Trek books so far this year, so now it is time to test your skills. Could you use everything we’ve learnt so far to make the same decisions as Captain Sisko? Are you a safe pair of hands for the Federation to leave in charge? Do you know your … Continue reading
In memory of Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock in the Star Trek tv show and who died on Friday, I have interrupted our read through of the Deep Space 9 books to bring you the story of Spock’s first voyage on the Enterprise. It is also my first encounter with Spock, or any Vulcan, so … Continue reading
I was foolish, dear reader. I should know better by now, but I walked right into this one. I was putting the Star Trek books in order so that I could try and make some sense of them, when I noticed that book 5 of the DS9 series was missing. Clearly what I should have … Continue reading
Well, dear reader, I had intended to have finished The Mathematics of Love by today so that we could have a Valentines themed post, but it became quite apparent that that I wasn’t nearly far enough through it. So, to make sure that you got at least one blogly Valentine present, I whipped through another Star … Continue reading
This is a story with clear, helpful advice that we could all follow to achieve happiness in life. It tells the tale of the smarmy Dr. Bashir who is desperate to be romantically involved with the fierce Major Kira, who thinks he is an idiot and wants nothing to do with him. In order to … Continue reading
Like a planet forced by gravity to continue in endless orbit, so too do we find ourselves facing the inevitable prospect of having to read another Star Trek book. I’ve decided to continue reading the Deep Space 9 series, so we will now return to the world of the brave Captain Sisko, his errant son and … Continue reading
Following my first attempt at reading Star Trek, in which I was notably baffled throughout, E and I have conferred and agreed that it is probably best to take the advice of the immortal Julie Andrews and start at the very beginning. So, here we are with book one of the third series. It isn’t … Continue reading
When E and I moved in together, I was helping her to pack up a cupboard in her old flat when what should we find but a box-load of books that hadn’t been unpacked since her last house move (probably decades before). It turned out that it was a boxful of Star Trek books. Imagine … Continue reading
