Star Trek: Typhon Pact: The Struggle Within (ebook) review thread

[JD]

I'm pretty close to a 50/50 split when it comes to paper books & e-books. I'm mainly just trying to finish the paper books I bought before I made the switch, but there are still a few things I want to read in the future that I will have to get in paper, so I probably won't be able to go 100% digital for quite a while.

[Christopher]

I don't see any reason to ever go 100% digital (unless you're, like, living off the back of a motorcycle and don't have any bookshelf space at all). That's like going 100% paperback. Books come in a variety of formats, and I'm open to all of them.

[JD]

I know in some of the other threads people have been talking about Abrams Trek stuff in the novels, and this one does include bald tattooed lower class Romulans.

[JD]

I just finished this a couple minutes ago. It wasn't anything amazingbut I enjoyed it. I especially liked the development of the Tallarians and Kinshaya. I also liked the way that it dealt with non-viloent resistance, and the charter work for Trys and Choudhury. My rating: Above Average.

[toughlittleship]

There was a spelling mistake that was very minor, but bugged me; the Andorian terrorist group Treishya is spelled as "Threishya".

[Christopher]

Umm, that wasn't a typo, just a different transliteration from Andorian! You know, like Qadhafi/Khadafy/Gaddafi. Yeah, that's the ticket!

[Deranged Nasat]

It's not truly Andorian-sounding until you add in an awkward lisping sound!

[Garrovick]

I just read this book over the weekend and I quite enjoyed it - it was a nice change of pace from the earlier Typhon Pact novels (not to say I didn't like them also), and I felt that the story was well suited as a novella. Personally, I'd like to see more novellas like this.

For what it's worth, I purchased the book through the iBooks app on my iPhone and read the whole thing on the iPhone 4 screen. I was a little uncertain about doing it that way but I haven't purchased any kind of e-reader yet so it was either that or my PC screen. On my iPhone screen the book ran 302 pages with about 80 to 90 words per page. Actually, if you disregard the pages at the beginning with the title/publishing info/etc., the actual story ran to more like 285 pages. It ended up being a fairly comfortable read (even with my poor eyesight), but YMMV.

I personally prefer paper books, but I'm open to e-books as well, especially for shorter tales like this one.

[Paris]

^I one of the people who prefer paper books as well. Hopefully this story gets a paper release in the future. Maybe part of an anthology or something. I'd love a "Tales of The Typhon Pact" book at some point. I'd be nice if Christopher's story could be a part of it

[Markonian]

This was one of my first dozen ebooks, as I appropriated a Kindle around that time to start banning dead-tree-editions from my life.

I liked this story but then, I'm easy to please anyway. However, when will there be some follow-up? I remember the Talarians were mentioned in The Khitomer Accords Saga but there hasn't been major new info about them and the Kinshaya since then. I thought the Kinshaya were included in the Pact for some major payoff later on, but they are curiously on the sidelines.

Ah, I wish there was a GKN/KE Typhon Pact story dealing with them, that would fit.

[JD]

Garrovick wrote:

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I just read this book over the weekend and I quite enjoyed it - it was a nice change of pace from the earlier Typhon Pact novels (not to say I didn't like them also), and I felt that the story was well suited as a novella. Personally, I'd like to see more novellas like this.

There have been quite a few Star Trek e-book novellas over the years. From August 2000 - September 2007 74 entries in the SCE/Corps of Engineers series were released, the first 66 of these have also been released in 13 paperback collections. In 2006 they cut back from the monthly releases and instead went for a 3 month on/off rotation with a couple different miniseries, first TOS: Mere Anarchy, then TNG: Slings and Arrows.
The e-book line then went on hiatus until the October 2011 with the release of TSW. October of last year saw the release of the TOS based Vanguard coda In Tempest's Wake, and this March we will be getting TNG: The Stuff of Dreams.