- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Star Trek; First THUS edition (5 Feb 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671537830
- ISBN-13: 978-0671537838
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 682,960 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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While investigating a possible way home, the Voyager opens communications with a new alien race, the Verunans. The crew then becomes caught in the attack when old enemies of the Verunans show and a battle ensues.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
WOW! Here I am, once again in recovery from yet another Christie Golden miracle of literature. Words themselves can not even begin to forge an accurate description of how exciting The Murdered Sun is. Nothing could stop this book, nothing could stop me reading this in one sitting - no drinks - no food - I even stopped breathing several times during it's thrilling passages!
This is Christie Golden's first voyage into the universe of Star Trek Voyager, what an entrance! Love, pain, hate, joy, happiness and more, this book encapsulates a whole universe, not only of stars and planets, but also of emotion, human and alien. To say one is in recovery after reading this book is an understatement! You don't really encounter emotions this strong in real life very often, it's good to be reminded how human you are <grin!> Once again, Christie Golden, thank you, thank you for your gift to the human race.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Although I rather enjoyed the story I really struggled to get past how inaccurate the characterisations of Chakotay, Paris and Janeway were. I've never read such an un-Janeway-like Janeway in all the ST's I've read. I guess this is Golden's first ST:V story and that might be the cause because she gets it so spot on in her later works.
In this story you need to ignore the characterisations and just read it for the story (which is rather good). Golden seems to have populated this Voyager with pacifist hippies (with regular hair cuts) that just don't fit with what we know about Janeway and crew. As an example: The antagonists are never seen without masks except in private. Voyager seriously damages an enemy ship and Janeway and some crew beam over and the enemy are dead. She wants to remove a mask to see what they look like but thinks "No, we've dishonoured the dead enough by killing them in the first place". Excuse me!!!! Do what!!!! I just can't believe it. In another part she doesn't want to do anything to antagonise the enemy as that would be an act of war and yet a few pages previously the enemy have already contacted Voyager and declared war on them, erm, Catherine dear, your already at war!
The book is peppered with instances like this, even Tom Paris isn't let off. Tom gets depressed because the victim planet in all this sends a team to rescue some people and they turn out rather good at looking after themselves (Tom expected to go round a corner and see them all dead but finds the ambushing enemy dead instead). He laments the fact that the good guys got good at protecting themselves so quickly. My guess is he would have rather seen all the good guys dead 'because they were good guys and pure of heart'. Again, it just didn't wash. It's this that you need to get around to enjoy the plot of the story.
Read it by all means, it's good, but treat the characters with a very large dose of salt.
Two stars knocked off for poor characterisation.
In this story you need to ignore the characterisations and just read it for the story (which is rather good). Golden seems to have populated this Voyager with pacifist hippies (with regular hair cuts) that just don't fit with what we know about Janeway and crew. As an example: The antagonists are never seen without masks except in private. Voyager seriously damages an enemy ship and Janeway and some crew beam over and the enemy are dead. She wants to remove a mask to see what they look like but thinks "No, we've dishonoured the dead enough by killing them in the first place". Excuse me!!!! Do what!!!! I just can't believe it. In another part she doesn't want to do anything to antagonise the enemy as that would be an act of war and yet a few pages previously the enemy have already contacted Voyager and declared war on them, erm, Catherine dear, your already at war!
The book is peppered with instances like this, even Tom Paris isn't let off. Tom gets depressed because the victim planet in all this sends a team to rescue some people and they turn out rather good at looking after themselves (Tom expected to go round a corner and see them all dead but finds the ambushing enemy dead instead). He laments the fact that the good guys got good at protecting themselves so quickly. My guess is he would have rather seen all the good guys dead 'because they were good guys and pure of heart'. Again, it just didn't wash. It's this that you need to get around to enjoy the plot of the story.
Read it by all means, it's good, but treat the characters with a very large dose of salt.
Two stars knocked off for poor characterisation.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Voyager being dragged into conflicts is getting distinctly boring! However at least this one is well-written and superbly characterised.
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