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Colonel Simmons is running a secret operation to create human Jaffa warriors to fight the Goa'uld. When Major Carter, Teal'c and Dr Janet Frasier stumble across the operation at an off-world training centre, they are abducted and whisked away. It's left to Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr. Daniel Jackson to mount a rescue operation.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Fantastic Addition to the Fandemonium Series, 24 April 2011

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Telaka (Scotland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stargate SG-1: Survival of the Fittest (Mass Market Paperback)

For what it is - an interpretation written by a fan for the fans - this book was an expensive purchase (I paid about �35 for it at the time) ... but despite the cost it was very much worth it. Although I might only recommend it to fellow dedicated fans of the show and the characters of SG-1, I recommend it keenly and with high esteem. Up there with Sally Malcolm's own spectacular offerings to the Fandemonium series (`A Matter of Honour/The Cost of Honour'), `Survival of the Fittest' has everything the fans need from an SG-1 publication; the characters are honed with a fine polish, the dialogue reads as if it were straight from Robert C. Cooper's own pen, and the plot and the otherworldly planets its set amongst are almost regrettably too big and too lush for the real-world show.

Without ever focusing too heavily on just one character, and with a much appreciated larger role for Fraser in this book than often was given on the show, and indeed for Hammond, Maybourne, Simmons and even Siler, it would be just mean of you to be disappointed. The plot is clever, the dialogue is funny, there are some great shipper moments and tonnes of flat out page-turning action to keep you hooked from start to finish. My only complaint is that the book itself went inexplicably out of print.

Fans - buy it, add it to your collection, treasure the fun of it forevermore.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Just get a copy and see how good it is for yourself, 9 Mar 2007

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I've been reading Sabine's Stargate fiction since before she became a professional writer and her stories are always well thought out, detailed, accurate and nail-bitingly intriguing. This book is no exception. Each character in the story plays an equal role and I love the way Sabine uses the less glorified characters such as Janet Frasier who is and was always so under-utelised. All in all, a wonderful read.

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5.0 out of 5 stars direct opinions, 23 May 2007

By Carrie-beth Bazzano "mustang" - Published on Amazon.com

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This one was a good one since the time-line took place between the season 5 episodes " The Fifth Guy, Right of Passage,The Menace, and Meridian" so they gave further information on their encounter with another system lord and the NID rep that replaced their biggest enemy in the first 3 seasons. I'd say that the only problem with this one was the need to create a further scape-goat in this one not to mention creating a six-way story line between the main characters and turning Fraiser into the victim was a good idea, but they took that one a little to far by the end of the story and it started getting annoying after a little while. But this was a very good story and I recommend it to any who like the show.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Featuring Nirrti and her genetic experiments, 13 Jun 2008

By Lynellen Perry "lynellenDOTcom" - Published on Amazon.com

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"Survival of the Fittest" is the second "Stargate SG-1" book that I've read by Sabine Bauer. The first one was "Trial by Fire", and I mention in that review that the story was dark, with detailed torture scenes, and a super annoying character. The Amazon product page for "Survival of the Fittest" doesn't have the back cover text, so here's what that says (note the British spelling, not my typos):

"Colonel Frank Simmons has never been a friend to SG-1. Working for the shadowy government organisation, the NID, he has hatched a horrifying plan to create an army as devastatingly effective as that of any Goa'uld. And he will stop at nothing to fulfil his ruthless ambition, even if that means forfeiting the life of the SGC's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Janet Fraiser. But Simmons underestimates the bond between Stargate Command's officers. When Fraiser, Major Samantha Carter and Teal'c disappear, Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr. Daniel Jackson are forced to put aside personal differences to follow their trail into a world of savagery and death. In this complex story of revenge, sacrifice and betrayal, SG-1 must endure their greatest ordeal..."

Ok, a few adjectives from that blurb are correct: horrifying, savagery and death. Complex? sure, why not. But it's also boring. The complexity bogs it down and the pace just is too slow. There is a ton of detail in the scene descriptions which I often find fun b/c I can picture the book as a movie. But this storyline is just too slow as-is...it would need some massive editing to become a movie, and even then I'm not sure it would be any good.

This book apparently takes place immediately after the Season 5 episode "Menace" where Reese the human-form replicator is discovered, studied, and killed by SG-1. The death of Reese apparently caused some MAJOR angst between Daniel and Jack, but I sure don't recall seeing it in the TV show. The book chomps onto this supposed angst, stirs in a trap set by the NID to get SG-1 out of the way, adds Nirrti to compete with Frank Simmons for 'most evil bad guy', and flavors with Harry Maybourne, Bra'tak, and General Hammond going on an off-world mission together. We see into the mind/motives of Jack (take the blame in order to protect the team) and we see General Hammond struggle to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder from his tour in Viet Nam. Given that Sabine likes to write about torture (physical and mental), we get a few detailed scenes about that (Jack, Janet, and Sam), we hear language that would NEVER come out of the mouth of Jack and Hammond, and we get to see Sam run around in her undies with every man in sight drooling in sexual paralysis. Roll it all together and its just not a very enjoyable book.

5.0 out of 5 stars stargate sg-1 survival of the fittest, 25 Jan 2011

By linda - Published on Amazon.com

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This is a great book.Good story line.It kept me interested.I got to read some of the book before I purchased it, so I was not disappointed. It is very important that a book catches my attention in the first few pages.This book did just that.The author did not over do with disscribing a tree in the forest or the clouds in the sky.It is boring to me to read two pages of how a tree looked.Well anyway, its a good book.I gave it 5 stars.

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