TOS: From History's Shadow by Dayton Ward Review Thread (Spoilers!)

[Dick Whitman]

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I am curious why you despise Gary Seven so much? Not a character I have strong feelings about one way or another.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

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I finished it last week, and thoroughly enjoyed it (and I, for one, like Gary and Roberta.)

 

[Reanok]

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Ditto I like reading books that include Gary seven and Roberta Lincoln stories.

 

[Ronald Held]

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It seems to be improving which is uncorrelated to meeting the author at the LV con.

 

[Kertrats47]

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Just posted my review. Enjoyed it for the most part. I would love to see a follow-up sometime!

Also, I did an interview with Dayton Ward for TrekCore.com. It's a couple of weeks old now, but I think some of his answers were pretty cool. The interview was pre-Seekers announcement, so unfortunately he only teases it. If only the interview had been a couple of days later!

 

[JWolf]

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I just finished reading From History's Shadow and I have to say that it is the best of the TOS books in 2013.

 

[Kertrats47]

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I just finished reading From History's Shadow and I have to say that it is the best of the TOS books in 2013.

Agreed! And that is actually saying something, as I really enjoyed some of the others, including The Weight of Worlds and The Shocks of Adversity.

 

[BillJ]

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Finished it. Fun read.

 

[Avro Arrow]

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Loved it... rated it "outstanding". But then again I'm a sucker for this type of "historical UFO conspiracy" story. I think Dayton mentioned in the acknowledgements that this was a "pet project"... I'm very glad he got to do it!

Only one thing missing... I kept waiting for a Juliet Stuart cameo, but alas...

 

[Killie]

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Just posted my review here

It was interesting to now look over other comments on here and unsurprisngly several people came to the same conclusions.

 

[Ronald Held]

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I am not quite finished but it reads as Trek history versus a TOS novel. The TOS framing sections are not enough to recatagorize it.

 

[reech]

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After reading this, I went back and read the first to 'Eugenics Wars' books - and enjoyed them much more this time round

 

[Garrovick]

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Just finished this one myself - definitely an "Outstanding" vote! I have to admit that I'm a bit of a sucker for Gary Seven/Roberta Lincoln stories - I still think it's a shame that TV series never got off the ground.

But, I'd have enjoyed it regardless even if they had not been included. Very well done!

 

[Reanok]

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Trek.Fm has a new Internet podcast with Dayton ward talking about writing From history's shadow.

 

[Defcon]

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Trek.Fm has a new Internet podcast with Dayton ward talking about writing From history's shadow.

http://trek.fm/literary-treks/literary-treks-32-from-velcros-shadow.html

 

[Ronald Held]

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Not certain this requires a spoiler button. Is it the case that the camcorder footage in the last chapter was that of Voyager?

 

[Avro Arrow]

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^ Yes, from Future's End.

(And yeah, it's a spoiler thread, so I would assume no button required.)

 

[trampledamage]

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(And yeah, it's a spoiler thread, so I would assume no button required.)

correct

 

[Reanok]

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I voted Outstanding it's one of the best Tos novels I've read this year.

 

[Dick Whitman]

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I really liked this. My favorite part was the interrogation of Captain Christopher. That he did have vague memories of his time on the Enterprise.

One part I was slightly disappointed in was the portrayal of Mestral. But that is mostly because I had completely different ideas of what happened to him. I think in the 60s he would have grown out his Vulcan bowl cut to more a mop top to conceal his ears. With his Vulcan mysticism he would have been a guru to the hippies.