TOS: Allegiance in Exile by DRGIII Review Thread (Spoilers!)

[Patrick O'Brien]

zarkon wrote:

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Other way round for me, but I think I'll give this a go. Always interested to see how well authors do with the kirk/spock/mccoy dialogue, since it always makes or breaks TOS books.

Could not agree more.

[ATimson]

Christopher wrote:

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Books like Rendezvous With Rama and Ringworld are often called "Big Dumb Object stories" in the SF-lit vernacular.

Not just lit. (Sorry, can never pass up a chance to ruin everyone's productivity with a TV Tropes link. )

[Paris]

I'm not usually down for more 5YM stories, but with DRG3 taking a crack, and after the Crucible trilogy has received almost universal praise, i'll definitely check this out. The original series has been getting more and more screen time at my place since reading David Mack's trilogy (had to see Akharin again), so maybe some 5YM stories are just what the doctor ordered

[ronny]

Kertrats47 wrote:

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Personally, my favourite was the McCoy one. I was blown away by it.

Umm, I meant McCoy was the Awesome one. Fixed.

[Sho]

The artifact story predilection goes back to before reading Rama for me even, I think. I remember growing up watching Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears cartoon, and there's this episode in which the band of protagonists take an underground railway system (itself left over from a more sophisticated age of Gummi Bear-hood) to the ancient, deserted capital of the once-proud Gummi Bear empire in the hopes of retrieving another copy of an important book that accidentally got destroyed back home. I was hooked! And then scifi gets to marry that with the intellectual exercise of interesting tech ideas or social reasoning ...

[Zedferret]

I hope he hasn't used the Serenity storyline (probably not original either) where they find out everyone is dead or mad from their own governments experiments.

[JWolf]

Seeing as nobody has yet voted, can we please have the option for Better then above average, but not quite outstanding?

[BillJ]

JWolf wrote:

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Seeing as nobody has yet voted, can we please have the option for Better then above average, but not quite outstanding?

What exactly is the point?

[zarkon]

JWolf wrote:

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Seeing as nobody has yet voted, can we please have the option for Better then above average, but not quite outstanding?

We have a five point scale, the words associated are meaningless. If you don't like them, just ignore them and see them as 2/5 or 5/5 or whatever.

[Christopher]

Yeah, there's no sense in abandoning the established 5-point structure just because one poster has a problem with it. Besides, adding another gradation in the upper half would leave the scale asymmetrical.

[Ronald Held]

Has anyone seen a hardcopy version?

[Mage]

Ronald Held wrote:

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Has anyone seen a hardcopy version?

You mean as in hardcover?

[Christopher]

"Hardcopy" generally means something in physical form as opposed to purely electronic, so I assume he's asking if anyone's seen the MMPB version as opposed to the e-book.

[Defcon]

Well, Therin obviously has one, but he visited DRGIII recently (or is still with him?), so I guess he got one of DRG III'S author copies.

[Mage]

Christopher wrote:

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"Hardcopy" generally means something in physical form as opposed to purely electronic, so I assume he's asking if anyone's seen the MMPB version as opposed to the e-book.

That's why I asked, wether he ment hardcopy or hardcover.