by Vonda N. McIntyre “Well,’ Kirk said. ‘Mysteriouser and mysteriouser.’ He glanced at Spock, expecting a curious gaze in response to his poor grammar.  But then Spock said, straight-faced, ‘Curious, sir.  Most curious, sir.” I am delighted by this book! I love it! I do, and I have since the first time I read it, back in 1981. I don’t care if the science doesn’t hold up even by Star Trek standards. I don’t care if it’s another convoluted SF time travel story. I love […]

by Gene Roddenberry My self-imposed challenge for Cannonball Read VI is to read all the Star Trek original novels from the first one ever published (in 1970) to the most current.  Realizing this is likely to take years (and several Cannonball Reads!), I set up some parameters for myself: only original, full-length novels licensed and published by a professional publishing house.  No short-story collections, no manuals, no novelizations.  I only want to consider original works by professional writers. Which brings us to “Star Trek: The […]

by Dayton Ward,  2014 This is the fifth and final novel in the Star Trek: The Fall Series.  After the mind-, heart-, and spirit-breaking  “Phoenix” novels, I decided I needed to take a break from early Star Trek novel writing.  Also, I received this in the mail and I cannot resist either packages or new books. Geoffrey on Goodreads writes, “To a large degree, it … feels like the conclusion of a major story arc that began with the final Borg invasion of the Federation, […]

by Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath Captain’s Personal Log.  Dear Log:  I love Spock sooooo much.  He is my best BFF forever. I would die for him.  He would die for me.  Couldn’t you just die? LOL This book picks up immediately after the prior one ends.  And carries on just as insufferably, just as incomprehensibly, just as self-importantly, as the first one. But without the slash scenes, so you don’t even have that to help you get through it. I have no clue at […]