Mission to Horatius: A Review

[Cake Is Eternal]

Whoosh! The very first Star Trek book was a fine kettle of fish! I wrote about the story itself and some historical context:

https://treksphere.com/book-reviews...4wKBSSrlp3eQLMc6Yb8GDt9yxSX9_NeCnHowcDhnc01qA

 

[vandevere]

Whoosh! The very first Star Trek book was a fine kettle of fish! I wrote about the story itself and some historical context:

https://treksphere.com/book-reviews...4wKBSSrlp3eQLMc6Yb8GDt9yxSX9_NeCnHowcDhnc01qA

I had that book when it originally came out in '68! It was a Christmas present! A light read for a nine-year-old child...

 

[Reanok]

I have the book my Grandma got it for me when I started to reading Star Trek books I remember she was so excited when she gave it to me as a gift.

 

[Steve Roby]

My first Star Trek book, probably Christmas 1971. I was a big fan of the Whitman TV tie-in books; I had The Invaders, Mission: Impossible, The Rat Patrol, Hawaii Five-O, one of the Man From UNCLE books, Bewitched (that might technically have been my sister's)... I've still got the Invaders and Bewitched books, as well as Mission to Horatius, of course, and for the hell of it I got a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea one recently.

It definitely has to be read as a product of its time. Reynolds wrote it while the show was still on the air, so if he watched any episodes, it would have been maybe the first season and possibly a little of the second. And he was an old school SF writer, not one of the hip young guys like Ellison and Spinrad. But I liked it well enough, and I was glad that Pocket brought it back into print in the '90s.

 

[Daddy Todd]

"I’m just reading Pocket Books’ very first officially licensed tie-in Star Trek novel, “Mission To Horatius.” Written by Mack Reynolds, and published by Whitman Books, an imprint of Western Publishing, (the same house that gave us the Gold Key Comics) in 1968, this novel was written for children and young people."

You may not have successfully articulated what you want to say here. Pocket Books did a reprint in about 1999, but had nothing to do with the original publication of this book more than three decades earlier.