- Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Star Trek; First THUS edition (1 Oct 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671870831
- ISBN-13: 978-0671870836
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 11.1 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,167,656 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Deep Space Nine is forced to curtail entry to the wormhole due to increased graviton emissions, and an air of biting tension settles over the station. This anxiety leads to the murder of an Edeman religious leader, Commander Benjamin Sisko and Security Chief Odo realize they face a larger problem.
Soon Sisko and Odo have more lifeless bodies on their hands and a killer who strikes without motive. Then, both the Edemans and Cardassians arrive threatening to destroy the station unless the murderer is given to them for retribution. In order to save Deep Space Nine and stop the killing, Odo must try to destroy a powerful assassin who is the only link to his mysterious past.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is the first real book of the Ds( series, it is written by veteran Star Trek author Peter David and is a enjoyable offering.
Without revealing any of the plot and spoiling the book for readers, a serial killer is loose on DS9, and is killing anyone, regardless of species or gender. The killer leaves no tangible evidence and seems to be able to render the security useless.
Fear and panic spreads and Odo is powerless to prevent further murders. A gruesome game of cat and mouse begins between the security chief and the killer.
However the book does have some adroit comic moments, we learn the secret of Quark's personal holodeck programmes. And we have further insight into the compassion of Bashir. He has to take a serious morale stand regarding an alien patient. But the majority of the book deals with the murderer, a subject which is not usually touched on by Star Trek as it was hoped that such brutal acts were a thing of the past. As the first real book of the DS9 series this is a wonderful read which enthralls as well as dusgusts. The plot is easy to follow but not predictable, in short this book rocks!
Peter David maintans his reputation as one of Trek's foremost authors. Read it today.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I'll have to admit this review is a little biased as Peter David is one of my favourite authors, but this is the book that originally introduced me to him.
The story has all the usual things to expect from a Peter David novel - a good A story, a couple of concurrent and standalone B and C plots, well-paced action scenes and some classic comedy moments.
Where The Siege particularly stands out is the fact it's Deep Space Nine's first original novel. David writes a preface explaining why the book ventures into areas the series wouldn't or couldn't at the time, as well as pointing out that at the time of writing, only five episodes had aired, and therefore certain characters might speak out of turn or not be portrayed as the would be in the show.
Compared to the first original novels of other series, The Siege stands up quite well and most of the major characters are all fairly well represented, each with their own unique voice coming through. Even after a decade since the show went off air, the book still holds up well and the characterisation is generally in keeping with the TV counterparts.
As far as pre-"relaunch" novels go, I'd say this one is a rare keeper and a must for any Peter David or DS9 fans, as there's a lot of enjoyment to be had on a number of different levels.
The story has all the usual things to expect from a Peter David novel - a good A story, a couple of concurrent and standalone B and C plots, well-paced action scenes and some classic comedy moments.
Where The Siege particularly stands out is the fact it's Deep Space Nine's first original novel. David writes a preface explaining why the book ventures into areas the series wouldn't or couldn't at the time, as well as pointing out that at the time of writing, only five episodes had aired, and therefore certain characters might speak out of turn or not be portrayed as the would be in the show.
Compared to the first original novels of other series, The Siege stands up quite well and most of the major characters are all fairly well represented, each with their own unique voice coming through. Even after a decade since the show went off air, the book still holds up well and the characterisation is generally in keeping with the TV counterparts.
As far as pre-"relaunch" novels go, I'd say this one is a rare keeper and a must for any Peter David or DS9 fans, as there's a lot of enjoyment to be had on a number of different levels.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Surprisingly good!
22 Sep 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I didn't expect this to be good, considering how early in the season it was written, but I was happy to read the kind of well-written novel that only Peter David can write. You have to hand it to him, this one is another in his long series of great ST books. Even reading this after Deep Space Nine is finished, it rings true to much of the characters at that time. So read this book!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Good first effort
4 April 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Taking place a little less than halfway through the first season of the show, The Siege is a strong first original novel in this series. As David explains in the preface, he's going to make a few mistakes, as when he started the book the show was only five episodes old and not everything was that well developed yet.
And he was right. Most of the characters did fall a little out of character at times, but just as often they sounded just as they do in the show. There was a bunch of cool action, with shapeshifters beating the heck out of each other, as well as out of others.
This book is filled with David's usual Star Trek wit and humor. In fact, my biggest complaint is about that. While there is some good ferengi humor, the author takes a lot of liberties with the ferengi culture and lifestyle, and most of them are dead wrong. This gets to be very annoying with every few pages he talks about "tradition ferengi defensive crouch," "a stance known as the ferengi..." etc.
Still, I recommend this book to DS9 fans. This is what the episode "the adversary" should have been. Good work!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
He can do Deep Space Nine too!!!!
12 May 1999
Format:Mass Market Paperback
When DS9 first premiered I was skeptical. The humans are the aliens? Yeah, right. But then I picked up this book and everything sounded so great I couldn't hold myself back from the show. This is the first original Deep Space Nine books so naturally somethings are a little off (Odo shape shifts into Quark and other humanoid forms, a task which he cannot do in the series). Another reviewer gave this book four stars because of the lack of accuracy, and I almost agreed with that reviewer but one has to realize that David wrote this book with almost nothing to go on. When it was written there had only been one episode of DS9! As I write this there are only a few more weeks of DS9 left, pick this book along with Fallen Heroes to continue the saga!
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