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Chargement... Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadowspar Margaret Clark (Directeur de publication), Marco Palmieri (Directeur de publication)
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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. It’s been a long time since I have read Star Trek book beyond the ones I own. I found this book while browsing the shelves at the library and was glad to find it. I’ve always been a fan of the mirror universe episodes and books. It’s interesting to see what my favorite characters would have been like if they took a different path in life or grew up in a different environment. This book is made up of 12 short stories that take place at different times and involve characters from each of the Star Trek series. I will admit I did not read the ones about the classic Star Trek characters. Some of the stories were just ok but Nobunaga by Dave Stern, Bitter Fruit by Susan Wright and A Terrible Beauty by Jim Johnson in particular really left me wanting more. I’m going to have to check to see if any of those were fleshed out into full length books. Nobunaga involves the crew of the series Enterprise and centered around Trip (my favorite of the crew) and imagine an evil empress Hoshi. Bitter Fruit is filled with the Voyager crew. It sounds like Kes may have a darker plan in mind for the world. A Terrible Beauty seems to have a mix of characters from various series. We see Riker, Tuvok and Deanna Troi’s father. This was definitely another great addition to the mirror universe books and I can only hope some of them were or will be developed into full length books. ( ) Underbara berättelser som hänger ihop otroligt bra. Jag är verkligen förvånad och positivt överraskad över hur bra berättelserna var. Man kunde läsa dem enskilt eller som en följd. Jag kan inte framhäva någon särskild av kortnovellerna, för de var samtliga oerhört bra. Redaktören för boken måste ha haft ett riktigt spännande jobb att föra samman alla dessa författare och deras berättelser. After the success of 2007's Mirror Universe novellas, Pocket wisely commissioned this, a collection of short stories also set in everyone's favorite decadent alternate reality. It's a decent lineup of stories, showcasing mirror versions of a lot of characters who had previously gone undepicted, from Captain Robert April to Christine Vale. There's a lot of overused character types in these stories-- the sadistic tyrant (Imperial or Alliance), the noble Imperial who tries his best under a corrupt government, and the noble rebel (against either the Empire or Alliance)-- which gets wearying after a while. The standouts are Dave Stern's "Nobunaga", which is a nicely surreal tale that though you can cotton on to the general idea easily enough keeps you guessing about the specifics (and wraps them up in an effectively jumpy style) and Rudy Josephs's "The Sacred Chalice", which gives us some well-rounded, recognizable yet still quite different versions of the Troi family, as well as some typically harrowing mirror universe events. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Fractured history. Broken lives. Splintered souls. Since the alternate universe was first glimpsed in the classic episode "Mirror, Mirror," something about Star Trek's dark side has beckoned us, called to us, tempted us -- like forbidden fruit on the Tree of Knowledge. To taste it is to lose oneself in a world of startling familiarity and terrifying contradictions, where everything and everyone we knew is somehow disturbingly different, and where shocking secrets await their revelation. What began in 2007 with Glass Empires and Obsidian Alliances -- the first truly in-depth foray into the turbulent history of this other continuum -- now continues in twelve new short tales that revisit and expand upon that so-called "Mirror Universe," spanning all five of the core incarnations of Star Trek, as well as their literary offshoots, across more than two hundred years of divergent history, as chronicled by... Christopher L. Bennett - Margaret Wander Bonanno - Peter David - Keith R.A. DeCandido - Michael Jan Friedman - Jim Johnson - Rudy Josephs - David Mack - Dave Stern - James Swallow - Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore - Susan Wright Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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