Sadly, Nightshade isn't. (Though, having only read it round about 1995, I have absolutely no memory of anything about it - but I'm sure I'd have remembered some porn)
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Sadly, Nightshade isn't. (Though, having only read it round about 1995, I have absolutely no memory of anything about it - but I'm sure I'd have remembered some porn)
Didn't David R. George III write that?
Actually, for a while, whenever I would read a post that mentioned Twilight, without any reference to Mission Gamma, my first thought would always go to "that other" Twilight (the one by Stephenie Meyer).
Is that even possible?
Not for lack of trying 
"Klingons do NOT sparkle..."
Not even if the Klingon men get glitter on them from the Klingon women?
I dunno, perhaps if Star Trek books were still as popular as the paranormal-romance-vampire-porn genre is now, Pocket might have kept the old heyday of more than one-book-a-month going - I remember when there was a DS9, TNG and Voyager one in quick succession. Those were the days...
Besides, Nightshade was far from a *bad* Trek book - and I think I might be persuaded to look at it again - which, as has been pointed out, is the reason...
Besides, Nightshade was far from a *bad* Trek book - and I think I might be persuaded to look at it again - which, as has been pointed out, is the reason...
Some of the later Hamilton books verge into "porn without plot."
I'm wondering how Pocket is planning on marketing the reprint of Nightshade; I could see Hamilton's legions of readers picking up the book and being very confused by what the book lacks from the Hamiltonian norm.
No complaints here. If there's a new foreword or afterword I'll even be buying the new edition, even though I have the first one. If it's just a reprint and new cover art, I won't.
People would complain about Greg Bear's "Corona" being republished, too. He became a big name in SF after his ST novel, but his ST novel rarely makes it into top ten lists. (I seem to remember enjoying it when it came out though.)
Corona's an interesting book, but its version of the Trek universe is idiosyncratic, as was true of a lot of Trek books back in the '70s and '80s. For instance, I believe at some point it says that Spock is in his eighties in the TOS era, which is consistent with Vulcan lifespans but would have required the entirely human Amanda to be over a hundred in "Journey to Babel."
Huh. Never heard of her.
Oh, you're so going to go to hell for that.
Nah, I'm just lobbying to write one of those new YA Trek books . . .
Or the 11th Doctor YA books* .
*The new season of the resurrected Doctor Who series is supposed to have a Twilightesque feel to it.
As noted before, she writes the "Anita Blake" books, which have been big bestsellers for years and years now.
True, that part doesn't work, but so many of the early books were stabs in the dark, and extrapolation of what they saw from TOS.
On the other hand, he took the transporter technology to the logical conclusion, basically storing patterns in memory and reviving dead people by materializing another copy. Had to get a little silly with a "review board" of AIs of famous doctors to control the process, but made sense technically...
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