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Summary: Sadistic Aliens Spoil Otherwise Good Plot
Review: Graf's writing strengths are quite evident in "Time's Enemy", but this reviewer is one of those unfortunate who can't stand to watch pain, torture or prolonged death in any form. The time-travel stuff is great, the doubled characters are great, the personality interactions are well done. But the aliens...They're a little TOO scary. Even Borg practices don't seem so bad compared to these omnivorous, unthinkingly(??) cruel baddies. They give a slightly Michael Crichton-ish feel to what should be an enjoyable story, as one group of sentients after another is wiped out and then condemned to a sort of living, walking death. If you like Stephen King you may enjoy this story. If you read Michael Crichton you won't even blink. But if your standard fare is more like Anne of Green Gables and the Chronicles of Narnia, the suffering the aliens cause (both described and implied) will spoil the rest of the story for you.
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Summary: Not the best.
Review: I am a little disapointed in the book. I was expecting a lot more to come out of it. I don't understand how the book could be related into the Furies at all. I think it would have been best if this book was written as another novel in itself and have nothing to do with the series. If it was done that way, I would have given it a better rating. It is a good book, but it doesnt quite follow the story line very well
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Summary: Fairly lame
Review: I give it a four because the plot had promise, the aliens were sort of okay but gross, and the ending--the last two chapters--was alright. Most of this book could have been a LOT shorter and would have wasted less of my time. The writing is just way too detailed. If we were all like that, my cat losing an eyelash would make national news. Besides, there is some swearing in Star Trek, but it is not this kind of swearing. It doesn't flood the book but it is there and I don't like it. At the beginning, the writing is not too bad, and the plot looks like it could turn out to be pretty good, but before I was halfway through I was really wishing we could hurry it up a little. Everything is extremely drawn out until the last two chapters, where it wraps up very quickly. Star Trek itself has been doing this, winding up the plot in the last ten seconds of the show, but you don't get bored in the meantime. This book shouldn't have been more than ten chapters. On the upside, there were at least two funny parts. But getting through all the extra stuff was not worth it.
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Summary: An excellent DS9 story!
Review: I really liked this 3rd book in the series. Part One is the best, but the DS9 book comes a close second. I really liked the fact that the crew were actually fighting what got the Furies so mad in the beginning (before part one). It sounds confusing, but it works. Besides, DS9 is my favorite of the ST series.
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Summary: An excellent DS9 story!
Review: I really liked this 3rd book in the series. Part One is the best, but the DS9 book comes a close second. I really liked the fact that the crew were actually fighting what got the Furies so mad in the beginning (before part one). It sounds confusing, but it works. Besides, DS9 is my favorite of the ST series.
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Summary: This is my favorite book. Of all time.
Review: I recently bought a brand new copy of this book because the original copy I had is falling apart. Pages are falling out, it is water-damaged, it's been with me through two back surgeries and one baby being born. This book has seen much action since I bought it in the fall of 1996. Why? Oh, because it's my favorite book of all time. Here's why: This is the best-written DS9 book I have ever read as of this writing. It has time-travel elements--I love time travel. And, the writers have avoided a time-travel paradox. It is very detailed and portrays the characters accurately. I can even understand the technobabble, because, as this book was co-written by an actual scientist, it is a combination of ST and real-world science. The alien horde is appropriately scary, gross, and apparently unstoppable (like the Borg *used* to be). This is the book that made Jadzia Dax my favorite ST character. A small summary-- A 5,000 year old version of a crippled Defiant is found embedded in a comet and towed to Starbase One, still embedded in the cometary ice, and allowed to sit while the ice melts from around the ship. The remains of Dr. Bashir and Captain Sisko are aboard, as well as the Dax symbiont in stasis. Captain Sisko, Dr. Bashir and Jadzia Dax are summoned to Starbase One and ordered NOT to bring the Defiant. Admiral Judith Hayman, an old friend of Curzon Dax, asks Bashir and Sisko to review data records. Sisko realizes that the data records are from the Defiant, and Dr Bashir is the one who figures out that it's a future Defiant. They both conclude that the Defiant was caught in a future battle where the only survivors were Dr Bashir and the Dax symbiont. Jadzia was brought along because the Dax symbiont is the only living survivor of the battle that took place 5,000 years in the past, and she is the only one who can communicate with the symbiont and find out what happened. Turns out, Dax has spent too long in stasis and is almost incoherent. The message they get is rather chilling: Don't go through the wormhole. Capture one of the invading aliens and talk to what they've eaten. Starfleet authorizes a study of the wormhole to determine what is going to happen/has already happened that sends the Defiant back in time and destroys the wormhole. A science ship, crewed by Vulcan time specialists, wormhole physicists, one Starfleet cadet (another time-travel specialist), and captained by a very frosty Vulcan female, T'Kreng, a wormhole ("quantum singularity") specialist, heads out of Starbase One with Captain Sisko, Dr Bashir and Jadzia Dax onboard. The wormhole begins acting really wierd and Captain Sisko revokes all travel permits, prompting T'Kreng to transport Sisko, Dax, Bashir and the "kidnapped" Dax symbiont to DS9 and enter the wormhole illegally. When they get to the Gamma quadrant side of the wormhole, their ship is attacked and all the crew are killed, except for the Starfleet cadet, who was put into a medical stasis chamber soon after T'Kreng entered the wormhole, which apparently saved her life. When they take the Defiant through the wormhole, the "wormhole aliens"/Prophets suck Captain Sisko into a vision where they tell him that they are dampening the upstream echoes of the event that destroyed the wormhole/will destroy the wormhole so that the Defiant can get to the other side and, hopefully, prevent the destruction of the wormhole. Once there, they find the remains of the Vulcan science ship, with the Starfleet cadet in the stasis chamber, and no warp core. This is where the fun begins and my summary ends. If this sounds interesting, buy the book and enjoy! It's one terrific book, and here's the story to turn into a DS9 movie. This book doesn't have much to say about the Furies...but who cares? The alien enemy in this book is way more complicated and interesting than the Furies are. This is the standout of the Invasion series, and way better than all the books in the Invasion series. Comparing those books to this one is like comparing Green Eggs & Ham to Gone With the Wind. This book is really that good. This is a must-have for any DS9 fan.
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Summary: Brilliant Book
Review: I think that this book is brilliant. As for people saying it is too detailed.. well the details make it real, and easier to imagine. The fact that it didnt have much to do with the Fury's is valid, BUT I think that was the whole idea of the book - it was the start of the whole fury thing.. The Federation DID kick the furies out of 'heaven', but they kicked them out after the fury's came back to re-take it. I did think some bits could have been better, for example, where Bashir & Kira are in the turbo lift shaft.. I had to read that bit 3 times to understand what really happened, and i am still not sure.
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Summary: Definitely one of the better books
Review: I think what makes thsi book very good is that it crosses over with the other series books, in a wide spanning tale. Though of course it might've neeeded much more room for everyone to truly shine, it does show a great side of Sisko and Dax and the conundrum of time travel as well as Earthly mythology and wher ethat may've come from. An interesting plot and good read.
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Summary: Definitely one of the better books
Review: I think what makes thsi book very good is that it crosses over with the other series books, in a wide spanning tale. Though of course it might've neeeded much more room for everyone to truly shine, it does show a great side of Sisko and Dax and the conundrum of time travel as well as Earthly mythology and wher ethat may've come from. An interesting plot and good read.
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Summary: Great story by two great authors.
Review: I'm currently on chapter four of this book, make that five. LOL! Anyhow, so far it's a five star book. I very rarely read a star trek novel I didn't like. I doubt this one will be an exception. Well, I've got to get back to reading this wonderful book. It's so good I can't put it down.
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