Errand of Fury Book 3

[Man of Steel]

If this information is correct, Book 3 is titled Sacrifices of War.

Pre order it here. http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Errand-Fury-Sacrifices/dp/0743497201/ref=pd_sim_b_img_17

 

[Defcon]

If this information is correct, Book 3 is titled Sacrifices of War.

Pre order it here. http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Erra...d_sim_b_img_17

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Without you I would've never known what the title of Book three is. I wouldn't have known where to search for it.




Oh wait, seems like I could have found it on this very board in this very recent thread.

 

[Man of Steel]

Didn't know this thread was posted already.

Sorry.

 

[Rabid Trekkie]

Are the Errand of Fury books any good? I've been thinking about getting them for awhile but don't know anyone else who has read them. It will take a while now, just broke the bank buying up several of the DS9 relaunch books, but if enough people agree that they're good I'll work on it.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Are the Errand of Fury books any good? I've been thinking about getting them for awhile but don't know anyone else who has read them.

I was disappointed with aspects of Ryan's first trilogy (mainly the hand-to-hand combat sequences, which he "called" like a football game), but loved LA Graf's trilogy that preceded it.

My Amazon review of Book 1 of Ryan's second Klingon trilogy says:

As Star Trek fans might recall, "The Janus Gate" (LA Graf) and "Errand of Vengeance" (Kevin Ryan) trilogies were part of a Pocket Books experiment in 2002 to supposedly "relaunch" the "original series" Star Trek novels with a deeper look into, and weaving between, known TOS episodes via Kirk's Enterprise's "lower decks" crew - based, I guess, on the popularity of the episode "Lower Decks" in TNG, where viewers got to see a new perspective on day-to-day Enterprise-D ship life.

LA Graf set their adventure just after "The Naked Time" and before "Charlie X". They used several characters who would soon suffer tragedy in "Balance of Terror". Ryan then set his first trilogy just after "Balance of Terror", with some of the action taking place simultaneously with "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" but before "Dagger of the Mind". He also used the surname-less Sam from "Charlie X" and rounded out that character. Following "production order", readers might realise that the unresolved brewing Klingon war theme would ultimately be revisited in the TV episode "Errand of Mercy".

When the first six books' resulting stories turned out to be not all that different in style to most other TOS novels, Pocket's ST editors decided to absorb them back into the usual run of TOS fiction. Out of the blue, or so it seemed, came 2005's new Ryan instalment, the first of a sequel set of novels called "Errand of Fury". The new action in "Seeds of Rage" picks up just after the events of the episode "The Devil in the Dark" (thus "Errand of Mercy" is almost upon us).

"Seeds of Rage", and the next books, promise to reveal exciting stuff about Sam [Fuller]'s vengeful father, Michael, and the fate of original Kevin Ryan character, Leslie Parrish. "Seeds of Rage" is a great read! It moves at such a fast pace that noone should have trouble finding the time to read "Errand of Fury: Seeds of Rage" all over again, if they need a memory boost, when the next instalment, "Demands of Honor", comes out in 2006.

What I really love about both the "Errand of Vengeance" trilogy, and this first book in "Errand of Fury", are the high concept, out-of-left field, what-ifs Kevin Ryan throws into the mix. In the first trilogy it was "What if a minor redshirt we saw in 'What Are Little Girls Made Of?' was a Klingon agent, and what if there were others?" and in this one it's "What if an Enterprise redshirt fell pregnant to such an agent?" Doing this makes the stories compelling, and adds to their page-turner nature. Even though we think we know how the events of the TV episodes turn out, Ryan puts a unique spin on our expectations, as his stories weave throughout the action of existing episodes.

It doesn't matter that you haven't seen episodes such as "A Taste of Armageddon" (to know Ambassador Fox better) or "Errand of Mercy" (which introduces Kor and the Klingons to TOS audiences) but, if you have, you are in for many additional treats when reading "Seeds of Rage".

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Ian, a quick linguistic question.

I've long noticed that you spell "no one" as a single word, as in this phrase from your review:

pace that noone should

Is that a unique Australian spelling on "no one"? I see "noone" and I think immediately of Herman's Hermits. Britons and Americans break it into two separate words, so is it different in Australia?

I'm not picking, honest! It's just interesting to me that we could be seeing a linguistic divergence between branches of the English language as it happens.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Is that a unique Australian spelling on "no one"?

When I was at elementary school (1960s) no-one, co-operation, ice-cream and ski-ing were examples of words that were usually spelt with hyphens in Australia. We used hyphens a lot. I really don't recall us being told we had to write "no one".

The word that was stressed as having to be always two words was all right, never alright.

Hyphenated words cause problems in layout - ever since computerization - and most hyphenated words are now spelt without the hyphen. So I treat no one the way I do cooperation.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/noone

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/noone

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Interesting.

"No one" and "ice cream" are two words in the United States, while "cooperation" and "skiing" are a single word.

I've always thought "noone" looked wrong, not realizing that linguistic divergence. Is it pronounced differently? I look at it and "hear" the same word as "noon," or is it broken into two distinct syllables like "no one"? I ask because there's no obvious syllabic break in "noone."

What can I say? I find etymologies fascinating.

 

[Christopher]

I've always thought "noone" looked wrong, not realizing that linguistic divergence. Is it pronounced differently? I look at it and "hear" the same word as "noon," or is it broken into two distinct syllables like "no one"? I ask because there's no obvious syllabic break in "noone."

There's no obvious break in "cooperate" either, not since they stopped spelling it with a dieresis over the second "o." I guess it's just the sort of thing where you learn from experience.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I look at it and "hear" the same word as "noon," or is it broken into two distinct syllables like "no one"? I ask because there's no obvious syllabic break in "noone."

We say "no one", of course, but if you say it in Strine (ie. mumbled Australian accent, a la Mel Gibson, Eric Bana or Hugh Jackman), it is going to come out more like "n'n".

How do you cope with "cooperate"? Do you still use the hyphen?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

No, no hyphen in "cooperate." But it's pronounced with a break between the "o"s.

 

[Therin of Andor]

No, no hyphen in "cooperate." But it's pronounced with a break between the "o"s.

Of course it is. So why is noone such a stretch? (Especially when there's also someone?)

 

[Christopher]

How do you cope with "cooperate"? Do you still use the hyphen?

I don't think we ever used a hyphen. As I said, it used to be spelled with a dieresis (two dots, like an umlaut), which is a symbol placed over the second of two adjacent vowels to indicate that they're pronounced separately. I think that may have been a British spelling also/instead, come to think of it.

 

[Stevil2001]

The OED cites for cooperate show that all of the possible ways have been used pretty inconsistently throughout history. From the first definition under co-operate (which is how the OED spells it):

1616: Cooperate
1625: cooperateth
1649: cooperate
1762: co-operate
1809: co-operate
1876: coöperating
1879: co-operating

Skimming the other defiinitions as well as co-operation, it seems like the hyphenated form was most commonly used in the 18th and 19th centuries. The dieresis is only used that one time.

 

[Trent Roman]

'Cooperate' is widely recognized as a word with unintuitive pronounciation, which is why Sesame Street devotes an entire song to it.

"Cooperation: made to have fun. Cooperation: working together! (Dig it.)" :thumbsup:

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Christopher]

Actually the name (and first line) of the song is "Co-operation Makes It Happen."

http://members.tripod.com/tiny_dancer/cooperat.html

 

[Therin of Andor]

'Cooperate' is widely recognized as a word with unintuitive pronounciation

Well, I offered two links that "noone" is an acknowledged alternative spelling. I was expecting to only see it only in my "Macquarie Australian Dictionary", but it's in broader ones, too.

 

[Trent Roman]

Actually the name (and first line) of the song is "Co-operation Makes It Happen."

Ah. Well, very young and new to the language, so I suppose errors are bound to happen in recollection. Just the other day, I was reminded that after seeing a TV showing of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", I went around thinking it was actually "Closing Counters of the Third Kind" for the next ten years. I figured it related to the reasons one might shut down grocery stores (inspired by the evacuation scenes), and was always impressed that 'aliens' was number three on the list.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[setacourse]

Are the Errand of Fury books any good? I've been thinking about getting them for awhile but don't know anyone else who has read them. It will take a while now, just broke the bank buying up several of the DS9 relaunch books, but if enough people agree that they're good I'll work on it.

I loved Errand of Vengeance and Errand of Fury books 1 & 2. I love the conceit of seeing and experiencing the Enterprise crew through a disguised Klingon agent. The agent's brother serving on a Klingon ship reminds me a bit of the IKS Gorkon/Klingon Empire series by KRAD. Seeing the Federation president and his office through the eyes of a low-ranking aide during the tumultuous build up to war remind me of Articles of the Federation. And seeing so many places in depth reminds me for some reason of the Vanguard saga. I know I was as pumped for Errand of Fury Book 2 at the conclusion of book 1 as I was at the end of Vanguard 3, and am nearly as pumped for Fury 3.