I don't know why friend kept saying this book was out of print, according to Amazon :S

Amazon is where I purchased this novel. Can't wait to read it either.

Wicked read bring new depth to the cast of Titan ( )

All right, so, most Star Trek books are nerdy by nature. It's Science Fiction and in the case of Star Trek that means complex science, complex ideas, complex math. This novel, though, blows each and every other Star Trek book I have read to smithereens when it comes to all that.

They take a really alien world, one that has no tectonic plates, for all intents and purposes no real land at all, and throw the reader on it. Now I know the water, grew up on the east coast, I've been in the ocean, next to the ocean, on the ocean, but except for a select few readers, I'm thinking that an entire water civilization is much, much more of an alien experience than even a big T. Rex (who lives on land, communicates with some sort of words not song).

IT's an awesome plot, very well constructed. And then Bennett adds in Deanna Troi and the impending birth, very impending birth of her girl and some interesting subplots to go with that. Whew, I was tired just reading it all.

The one thing that wasn't as great was just how many semi-regular characters of all sorts of different races, types, heck one of them is referred to as 'it'. I don't have a problem with the diversity of characters, it's just that sometimes it makes the scenes just a bit too confusing, trying to figure out who is referring to whom. But, it's just a small thing. And, I love that they've given characters like Palazar, Ogawa, and Tuvok new life through these books! ( )

After the sturm und drang of Trek fiction the past few months, it sure is nice to get back to some good old fashioned space exploration. And who does space exploration like Christopher L. Bennett? The water-world of Droplet is as fascinating as all of his scientific constructs have been: a complete ecosystem on a world without a bit of land, not anywhere. Though the book is slow to start, the sheer fascination and joy at the discovery of this new planet certainly carries over to the reader. The plot of the book feels slightly contrived-- a lot of inconvenient circumstances have to coincide to let that asteroid do as much damage as it does-- but it allows for some more great worldbuilding, such as Cethente's descent into the depths. Of course, it wouldn't be a Christopher L. Bennett novel without some forced retcons of events in earlier books or plotlines that resolve when people come to terms with their psychological hangups in the span of one conversation (three times in two chapters!), but we can forgive all this because even when under crazed telepathic influence, Doctor Ree is still awesome. As always: more Titan please.