The Wounded Sky

An alien scientist invents the Intergalactic Inversion Drive, an engine system that transcends warp drive, and the U.S.S Enterprise will be the first to test it The Klingons attempt to thwart the test, but a greater danger looms when strange symptoms surface among the crew, and time becomes meaningless Captain Kirk and his friends must repair the fabric of the Universe before time is lost forever Best Read The Wounded Sky author Diane Duane For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Diane Duane, author of fantasy novels and even a Star Trek Next Gen episode or two, wrote what was her first novel in the Original Series universe called The Wounded Sky.The Wounded Sky tends to be a bit tedious reading at first We meet the alien scientist, who is a glass spider like alien why the book blurb says pretty scientist is beyond me meets up with the Enterprise crew, which crew has won the lottery on which starship will be heading off to parts of the Galaxy Mankind has never ...Having now found my Star Trek books I am enjoying picking out the old favourites The Wounded Sky is definitely one of the best Diane Duane is obviously a fan, knows the Trek world well and has an imagination worthy of the best SF writers K t lk, a spider like being, is a lovely creation The descriptions of the other worlds, the astronomy and creative physics are outstanding There s a meaty story and a lot to think about.Only in SF, with a good writer, could you get ideas to make the reade Having now found my Star Trek books I am enjoying picking out the old favourites The Wounded Sky is definitely one of the best Diane Duane is obviously a fan, knows the Trek world well and has an imagination worthy of the best SF writers K t lk, a spider like being, is a lovely creation The descriptions of the other worlds, the astronomy and creative physics are outstanding There s a meaty story and a lot to think about.Only in SF, with a good writer, could you get ideas to make the reader ponder on religion, creation, gods and proto gods, and the meaning of life, all wrapped up in an exciting story K t lk has invented the mathematics to make an intergalatic inversion drive to take the Federation beyond the galaxy Enterprise is the spaceship chosen to first...That jellyfish on the cover made me think it was the story where Nurse Chapel married a jellyfish But, no, my bad, it s a glass spider called K t l k, and she s got a universe to save and a new one to build Plenty of exotic new aliens in this story, plus the enjoyable Harb Tanzer Recreation Officer Every starship needs one, cause everybody needs the simplicity of play.Put through too many filters and rewrites, this became the TNG episode Where No One Has Gone Before Stands perfectly well That jellyfish on the cover made me think it was the story where Nurse Chapel married a jellyfish But, no, my bad, it s a glass spider called K t l k, and she s got a universe to save and a new one to build Plenty of exotic new aliens in this story, plus the enjoyable Harb Tanzer Recreation Officer Every starship needs one, cause everybody needs...I don t remember much about this book, except that as a teenager I LOVED it This, along with Black Fire, was one of my favorite Star Trek books I re read it many times between 1983 and 1988 at least once per year ,than any other Star Trek book aside from Black Fire, which I re read just...I ve read this one several times, and like it every single time Good characterizations and lots to think about.Just read it again, first time in at least a year or two, and it made me cry all over again, the good kind of weeping The a...This is one of my very favourite Star Trek books of all time I love the new characters she creates and she just nails her depiction of the original characters Love itThe Wounded Sky is one of those Star Trek novels that is so high on my scale of all things good and proper in Star Trek it s ridiculous but this story is that good It kicks off with a description of the ship in warp and that s like nothing you ve ever read, it gives the novel such heart and soul you wouldn t believe and then we get to the actual story.The Enterprise is chosen to test a new drive system design...Wow This is an amazing book it demonstrates the fun and depth that good science fiction writing can achieve It had profundity, depth, and wonder encapsulated in a Star Trek novel I finished it in about three days, part of which was on a plane from Rapid City to DFW I was actually frustrated when the pilot announced we were landing because that meant I would need to stop reading.One of the advantages of a science fiction book over a TV show or film is that books are not constrained by specia Wow This is an amazing book it demonstrates the fun and depth that good science fiction writing can achieve It had profundity, depth, and wonder encapsulated in a Star Trek novel I finished it in about three days, part of which was on a plane from Rapid City to DFW I was actually frustrated when the pilot announced we were landing because that meant I would need to stop reading.One of the advantages of a science fiction book over a TV show or film is that books are not constrained by special effects budgets or the limitations of humans playing alien characters Duane creates farfantastic aliens that we have seen in Star Trek s on screen incarnations, including a felid, a transporter operator with multiple tentacles, ...These notes were made in 1984 The latest Star Trek novel and rather a good one, tho the scientific concept on which it is based the defeat of entropy is a little boggling for a pedestrian mind like mine Luckily I can see past the scientese creating a heavenly state of no death or decay is simply Duane s way of creating a situation for dramatizing what she feels is the essence of each of...I loved this book and everything in it the world building, the science, the wibbley wobbley timey wimey aspects I ve got Doctor Who in your Star Trek and Diane Duane is a Whovian , the Duane created OCs, and Kirk Kirk being Kirk Older, wiser Kirk who is still the same Kirk everyone loves There s tentacles and body swapping and Starfleet folks who don t conform to a gender binary because the galaxy s too big for that mess and Sassy Bones and a whole lot of eyebrow quirking from Spock and I loved this book and everything in it the world building, the science, the wibbley wobbley timey wimey aspects I ve got Doctor Who in your Star Trek and Diane Duane is a Whovian , the Duane created OCs, and Kirk Kirk being Kirk Older, wiser Kirk who is still the same Kirk everyone loves There s tentacles and body swapping and S...

• English
• 27 May 2018
Diane Duane
• Paperback
• 255 pages
• 067174352X
• Diane Duane
• The Wounded Sky