 Trekkkieguy's tribute to the original Star Trek TV series & movies featuring sound clips, book reviews, memory wall, image gallery & more! |
Trekkkieguy's tribute to the original Star Trek TV series & movies featuring sound clips, book reviews, memory wall, image gallery & more! |
 August 1977 Cover Image    BOOK DETAILS
ISBN: 0-553-11145-0
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By: Joe Haldeman (Text taken from the August 1977 edition) Never before had the Enterprise been betrayed by its own technology. Never before had their systems, instruments and weapons failed to respond. And never before had Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest of the crew faced a total breakdown of science and sanity . . . until they stumbled on the mysterious world that couldn't exist . . . A world orbited by a black hole and ruled by chaos - where man was a helpless plaything for a race of beings more powerful than the laws of the universe. (Text taken from the June 1984 edition) Captain's Log, Stardate 6133.4 On a routine diplomatic mission to Starfleet Academy, our sensors detected the presence of a rogue planet in space, orbited by a sun no larger than a pea - a circumstance impossible to explain by any known scientific law. Assuming the star to be an artificial construct, a landing party was dispatched to the planet's surface, where I am now recording this log: where we are now trapped. Two of my crewmen are dead, victims of this savage planet Spock has named Anomaly, a planet where none of our equipment works and none of our science applies . . . a planet that cannot exist.
An OK story but typical of early Trek novels; they're written by science fiction writers who don't really know the characters.
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