A futuristic novel by Star Trek's Captain Kirk. Jake Cardigan, a one-time high-flying policeman, is released from the Freezer many years before his term was up, to help track down a famous scientist and his daughter. Cardigan finds himself in the middle of a full-blown war.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By W. Robinson
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Recently I had a spare evening, and had a rummage through my old books, to try to find something to read. I stumbled on this one, which I forgot I had in my collection, & finished it last night.
First of all, I think that William Shatner writes SF competently. What he does particularly well is imagine how things might be in the future, particularly with regard to robots/androids. Isaac Asimov would be proud of him! He really does have a vivid imagination, and comes up with lots of new ideas. His SF is snappy and action-packed.
Unfortunately, I thought the story itself was not quite so good. It's readable, certainly, but perhaps a little on the shallow side. In other words, a bit too much action and not enough philosophy was my impression.
Nonetheless, if this is Shatner's first attempt at SF, he should definitely stick at it. Just make the characters a bit deeper and less like cardboard cut-outs. I hope this is fair.
First of all, I think that William Shatner writes SF competently. What he does particularly well is imagine how things might be in the future, particularly with regard to robots/androids. Isaac Asimov would be proud of him! He really does have a vivid imagination, and comes up with lots of new ideas. His SF is snappy and action-packed.
Unfortunately, I thought the story itself was not quite so good. It's readable, certainly, but perhaps a little on the shallow side. In other words, a bit too much action and not enough philosophy was my impression.
Nonetheless, if this is Shatner's first attempt at SF, he should definitely stick at it. Just make the characters a bit deeper and less like cardboard cut-outs. I hope this is fair.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Okay I'll admit I merely bought this book because Shatner is the author. I, however, found TEK WAR to be fun and exciting to read. Jake Cardigan is a wonderfully realistic protagonist who is not without his own vices. After being parolled from the Freezer, Cardigan tries to find out who framed him for dealing the virtual reality drug TEK. This book is great. When I started it I couldn't put it down.
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It was adequate as books go, very pulpy science fiction. It felt very much like the start of something larger, lots of threads inadequately addressed in here. Good thing there are about a million more books!
Format:Kindle Edition
This is an exceedingly good book which myself, as a person who struggles to settle down and read has found this to be a great title and a great series.
The characters and settings have been described well and are very believable.
This is the type of book that I could easily come back to and happily read it all over again.
William Shatner has done a great job with this series, so much so that as a book struggler I have already started reading his follow up book: Tek Lords.
The characters and settings have been described well and are very believable.
This is the type of book that I could easily come back to and happily read it all over again.
William Shatner has done a great job with this series, so much so that as a book struggler I have already started reading his follow up book: Tek Lords.
By P.O.
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Jake Cardigan is a tenacious anti hero ex cop.
The story line moves briskly, not overly descriptive; a good pace.
The story line moves briskly, not overly descriptive; a good pace.
By Jason Mills
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I have a lot of time for William Shatner, so I wanted to like this; but it was nothing much. Our hero Jake Cardigan is a 22nd-century cop, framed and incarcerated for dealing in Tek, a kind of electronic wish-fulfilment 'drug'. (Why these Tek chips can only be used once remains unanswered...) Strings are pulled by a detective agency to have him released so that he can track down a missing scientist, who may have invented a technology that would destroy the Tek trade.
Shatner's is an endearingly old-fashioned future: domed cities, walkways between skyscrapers, laser pistols, cyborg assassins with power-tool hands... The chrome-plated robots are fully intelligent but still conduct official business by printing out forms from a slot in their chests!
A thriller in this environment has the potential for fun, but unfortunately the writing is flat. There is precious little characterisation - Shatner seems not to want to interrupt the action with psychologising - and thus nothing for the reader to engage with. Although there's a lot of running around and fighting, it's all kinda dull. Better SF writers would have pursued the ethics (are the expendable androids here fully sentient or just automatons?) or the metaphysics (the fantasies induced by Tek could have been a potent alternate-reality device). Shatner only presents a prolonged chase with no emotional depth, and his mostly Earth-bound yarn delivers little of the space opera colour promised by the title, cover and indeed author. It's a straight-to-video kind of novel. I won't be seeking out the sequels.
Shatner's is an endearingly old-fashioned future: domed cities, walkways between skyscrapers, laser pistols, cyborg assassins with power-tool hands... The chrome-plated robots are fully intelligent but still conduct official business by printing out forms from a slot in their chests!
A thriller in this environment has the potential for fun, but unfortunately the writing is flat. There is precious little characterisation - Shatner seems not to want to interrupt the action with psychologising - and thus nothing for the reader to engage with. Although there's a lot of running around and fighting, it's all kinda dull. Better SF writers would have pursued the ethics (are the expendable androids here fully sentient or just automatons?) or the metaphysics (the fantasies induced by Tek could have been a potent alternate-reality device). Shatner only presents a prolonged chase with no emotional depth, and his mostly Earth-bound yarn delivers little of the space opera colour promised by the title, cover and indeed author. It's a straight-to-video kind of novel. I won't be seeking out the sequels.
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