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Simon Hawke

Auteur de The Romulan Prize

70+ oeuvres 7,317 utilisateurs 86 critiques 6 Favoris

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Notice de désambiguation :

(eng) Nicholas Yerkamov legally changed his name to Simon Hawke. He has also written under the pennames S.L. Hunter and J.D. Masters.

(ger) Nicholas Yerkamov änderte seinen Namen zu Simon Hawke. He has also written under the pennames S.L. Hunter and J.D. Masters.

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Séries

Œuvres de Simon Hawke

The Romulan Prize (1993) 559 exemplaires
Blaze of Glory (1995) 397 exemplaires
The Patrian Transgression (1994) 336 exemplaires
The Outcast (1993) 279 exemplaires
The Ivanhoe Gambit (1984) 263 exemplaires
The Wizard of 4th Street (1987) 260 exemplaires
The Nomad (1994) 251 exemplaires
The Wizard of Whitechapel (1988) 212 exemplaires
The Pimpernel Plot (1984) 206 exemplaires
The Broken Blade (1995) 199 exemplaires
The Timekeeper Conspiracy (1984) 196 exemplaires
The Wizard of Sunset Strip (1989) 183 exemplaires
The Wizard of Rue Morgue (1990) 171 exemplaires
The Samurai Wizard (1991) 164 exemplaires
The Zenda Vendetta (1985) 163 exemplaires
The Reluctant Sorcerer (1992) 161 exemplaires
A Mystery of Errors (2000) — Auteur — 157 exemplaires
The Khyber Connection (1986) — Auteur — 154 exemplaires
The Wizard of Lovecraft's Cafe (1993) 148 exemplaires
The Wizard of Santa Fe (1991) 145 exemplaires
The Nautilus Sanction (1985) 140 exemplaires
The Dracula Caper (1988) 138 exemplaires
The Argonaut Affair (1987) — Auteur — 135 exemplaires
The Wizard of Camelot (1993) 130 exemplaires
The Nine Lives of Catseye Gomez (1992) 128 exemplaires
Trone de fer (1995) 125 exemplaires
The Inadequate Adept (1993) 123 exemplaires
The Slaying of the Shrew (2001) — Auteur — 110 exemplaires
The Ambivalent Magician (1996) 105 exemplaires
Much Ado About Murder (2002) — Auteur — 102 exemplaires
The Lilliput Legion (1989) 102 exemplaires
The Hellfire Rebellion (1990) — Auteur — 98 exemplaires
The Last Wizard (1997) 91 exemplaires
The Six-Gun Solution (1991) 90 exemplaires
War of the Gods (1982) 90 exemplaires
The Cleopatra Crisis (1990) 89 exemplaires
The Whims of Creation (1995) 75 exemplaires
Psychodrome (1987) 71 exemplaires
The Merchant of Vengeance (2003) — Auteur — 65 exemplaires
Batman: To Stalk a Specter (1900) 55 exemplaires
The Shapechanger Scenario (1988) 48 exemplaires
Guerre de fer (1996) 41 exemplaires
Epiphany (1982) 29 exemplaires
Last Communion (1981) 29 exemplaires
Predator 2 (1990) 28 exemplaires
Friday The 13th (1987) 28 exemplaires
Fall into Darkness (1982) 24 exemplaires
Jehad (1984) 21 exemplaires
Clique (1982) 21 exemplaires
Steele (1989) 14 exemplaires
Friday The 13th Part III (1988) 14 exemplaires
Journey From Flesh (1981) 13 exemplaires
Killer Steele (1990) 11 exemplaires
Cold Steele (1989) 11 exemplaires
Friday The 13th Part II (1988) 10 exemplaires
Jagged Steele (1990) 8 exemplaires
Renegade Steele (1990) 7 exemplaires
Sons Of Glory #1 (1992) 6 exemplaires
Target Steele (1990) 5 exemplaires
The Fall of a Gay King (2014) 4 exemplaires
Call to Battle (1993) 4 exemplaires
Blackthorn (2014) 3 exemplaires
The Shade Trilogy (2015) 2 exemplaires
Hamburger Heaven 1 exemplaire
Timewars, Books 1-12 (1991) 1 exemplaire
Fortunes Of A Fool 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

Perpetual Light (1982) — Contributeur — 99 exemplaires
Alternate Gettysburgs (2002) — Contributeur — 66 exemplaires
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 7 (1981) — Contributeur — 52 exemplaires
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 12 (1986) — Contributeur — 49 exemplaires
Horrors (1866) — Contributeur — 43 exemplaires
Mob Magic (1998) — Contributeur — 40 exemplaires
Oceans of Space (2002) — Contributeur — 35 exemplaires
Chrysalis 9 (1981) — Contributeur — 18 exemplaires

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Partage des connaissances

Autres noms
Yerkamov, Nicholas Valentin (name at birth)
Yermakov, Nicholas V.
Yermakov, Nicholas
Yermakov, Nick
Hunter, S. L. (pen name)
Masters, J. D. (pen name)
Date de naissance
1951-09-30
Sexe
male
Nationalité
USA
Lieu de naissance
New York, New York, USA
Professions
science fiction and fantasy writer
Organisations
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Authors Guild
Prix et distinctions
Colorado Writer of the Year (1992)
Notice de désambigüisation
Nicholas Yerkamov legally changed his name to Simon Hawke. He has also written under the pennames S.L. Hunter and J.D. Masters.

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Critiques

I found this a very enjoyable "episode in book form," and that's about all there is to say. It's interesting to see them try to take on real issues of cultural difference--not embarrassing little ones, but issues related to core morality.
 
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everystartrek | 1 autre critique | Feb 3, 2023 |
This was a refreshingly new take on the "generation ship" trope, which also adds in "ambimorphs" who appear to be an early version of the Founders that appear in DS9 (though less villainous). It features a notable Romulan antagonist whose characterization goes beyond the usual BS, and unusually clever strategic hijinks. A good read.
 
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everystartrek | Jan 7, 2023 |
Some books have stories outside their own stories…personal stories. My wife got me a copy of this for my birthday some 19 years ago (along with an autographed copy of another Hawke book). I read a few pages, and then it sat on my nightstand for the next five years until we moved from Korea back to he states, and then in our library until it was lost with so many other books to soot and smoke damage from a fire in 2013. Hawke is one of a few authors as fall back on when I feel “reader’s block” creeping up on me, but this short series isn’t one of my “go to” books… mainly because I hadn’t gotten back to it after all these years. And now the error of that mystery has been corrected. It took more than half of the book before I got engaged, but I did and I did enjoy it.

Hawke says in his afterward that some might think him cheeky (paraphrased) for presuming to write about Shakespeare as a fictional character, but I agree with him that people take Shakespeare too seriously (again, paraphrasing). I don’t buy the analysis of so many… yes, so many who have based their academic careers on such analysis. I liked Hawke’s take on Shakespeare:
He knew that his medium was an ephemeral one and he regarded it accordingly. He wrote his works to be performed, not deconstructed in a college classroom or analyzed with pathological precision for every possible nuance and interpretation. He understood, without a doubt, that his was a collaborative medium, that actors would bring their own contributions to the table, that plays were a dynamic group effort of the entire company, not a showcase for an individual writer's talent and/or ego.
Students who are forced to sit through agonizing lectures by monotonous professors who drone on and on about iambic pentameter and heroic couplets never truly learn to appreciate the Bard, and more's the pity, because Shakespeare himself would have been aghast to learn that his words were putting young captive audiences to sleep. He wanted, more than anything, to make them laugh, or weep, or rage ... to make them feel, for that was why Elizabethan audiences went to the theatre.
IMO, Shakespeare is far better seen and heard than read.

Okay, probably not just my opinion.
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Razinha | 4 autres critiques | Oct 28, 2021 |
[I received a copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.]

When I read the description of this book, I was looking forward to it. A high fantasy story with intrigue, mystery, unrequited love, murderous plots, etc. -- sign me up! And while those elements are present here, I found them hard to follow and truly enjoy.

Here's why: everything is overshadowed by gratuitous sex scenes. There are over 30 chapters in this book and I think it averages about one scene per chapter. Furthermore, most of those scenes are the result of compulsion, traditions involving dubious levels of consent, or manipulation (one character openly admits to performing an act with the hope the recipient would be more agreeable to a request). And there isn't anything steamy or romantic about these scenes--they are entirely about 'getting off'. While the story elements that are interrupted by these scenes have promise, they get lost behind all of this.

I also had a hard time reconciling a few things about this society. The largest of these was the way in which characters of all levels of the social hierarchy seem to engage in gay sexual relations with reckless abandon but we suddenly learn it's highly illegal and punishable by death. And although it's punishable by death, a perfectly acceptable alternate sentence is forced gay prostitution--that seems contradictory and hardly something such a society would be likely to condone. Add to that the fact that no one seems to flinch at compelling people to engage in sexual acts using magic or at the suggestion that gang rape is a perfectly acceptable mechanism for dealing with people who are uncooperative, and this book finds its way into the realm of incredibly problematic.

I struggled for a bit on how to rate this story. While I find some of the content questionable and I feel like it was constructed in such a way that the story is secondary to these problematic elements, I do feel like the actual storyline has promise and could make for a great novel if the sex (and related content) was scaled back. So I'm giving this a hesitant two stars and a very skeptical benefit of the doubt.
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crtsjffrsn | Aug 27, 2021 |

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Statistiques

Œuvres
70
Aussi par
11
Membres
7,317
Popularité
#3,342
Évaluation
½ 3.5
Critiques
86
ISBN
172
Langues
8
Favoris
6

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