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Chargement... Department of Temporal Investigations: The Collectorspar Christopher L. Bennett
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. If we had half stars on here I'd probably . . . hmms, seriously considering giving this book a half star above 4. Though, back in the days when I was really nitpicky, and diving deep into ratings, this would probably fall closer to being a 4.25 book. Right. So, the third book in the Department of Temporal Investigations series set in the Star Trek universe. Included for the readers attention are: strange devices discovered; time travel devices stored in vaults; displacement in time; parallel universes; travels to the distant future; travels to the distant past; (view spoiler); changes . . . and stuff. This is neither the best Star Trek themed book I've read this year, nor the worst. And if I recall correctly, it might be the second best Bennett Star Trek book I've read this year (this being a comparison of two books, I think only two, with each other). There is an interesting plot and storyline. Interesting characters. And . . um . . . a good conclusion, I think, to this series. If it is a conclusion. Otherwise a good continuation of this series. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieStar Trek (2014.12) Star Trek (novels) (2014.12) Star Trek Relaunch (Book 70) (Chronological Order)
An all-new Star Trek e-novella featuring the Department of Temporal Investigations! The dedicated agents of the Federation Department of Temporal Investigations have their work cut out for them protecting the course of history from the dangers of time travel. But the galaxy is littered with artifacts that, in the wrong hands, could threaten reality. One of the DTI's most crucial jobs is to track down these objects and lock them safely away in the Federation's most secret and secure facility. When Agents Lucsly and Dulmur bring home an alien obelisk of incredible power, they are challenged by a 31st-century temporal agent who insists they surrender the mysterious artifact to her. But before they know it, the three agents are pulled into a corrupted future torn apart by a violent temporal war. While their DTI colleagues attempt to track them down, Lucsly and Dulmur must restore temporal peace by setting off on an epic journey through the ages, with the future of the galaxy hanging in the balance... Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The result is delightful. Dulmur and Lucsly are inducting a new artifact into the DTI's vault when Agent Jen Noi (a contemporary of Enterprise's Daniels) pops up to claim it for the 31st century instead. Soon, Dulmur and Lucsly are being whisked away to an alternate 31st century, and then even further afield. It's just fun, and surprisingly given its length, it feels big. There's lots of great stuff here: Jena Noi using time technology in hand-to-hand combat, megastructures of the kind we rarely see in Star Trek, the awesome scale (and kind-of logic) of the Collectors' plan, the Borg T. rex(!), the way Garcia and Ranjea rewrite their own histories but don't even notice, Lucsly's reaction to being in the future being to keep his eyes closed so he can't contaminate the timeline, the TIA's method for beating the Collectors (a lot like Mudd's technique in "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad," actually). Sometimes Bennett's writing can get bogged down and clunky, but that's not true here; this book zips along, playful and entertaining.
It's not all roses; I was little annoyed the 24th-century agents trying to track down Dulmur and Lucsly have no real effect on the story, and the bit where Dulmur and Lucsly solve their personal issues by noting how the Collectors' problems parallel their own and give a speech about it is a bit on the nose. But fundamentally I really enjoyed this, and I look forward to reading future DTI e-novellas. Given how often I feel like Destiny-era novels take to long to get to the point, maybe all Star Trek books should be novellas?
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