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Summary: The Star Trek novel that had to be made
Review: So here we have it.Throughout the years we have seen Star Trek books that are completely based on time-travel and restoring the timeline. So it was about time we get to see a novel that leans completely on the other science-fiction clishé: parallel universes. Inspite of the horrible premise "Echoes" holds itself together surprisingly well. Yes, the plot is virtually nonexistant, and the whole purpose of the book is to show us different Voyagers than the one we are used to. We get to follow two of these alternate Voyagers and their crew in this book, plus, of course, the 'regular' one. Unfortunately, the only things that are different in these alternate Voyagers in relation to the familiar one are the uniforms, hairstyles and minor differences in the layout of the interior design of the ship. The most annoying thing with this book is that it is a combination of few of the most popular Star Trek TV episodes and offers absolutely nothing new. It is apparent throughout the book wich episode is being copied with each scene. The biggest strenghts of the book are good characterization, and especially each Janeway is being portrayed extremely well. The other one is the fact that our universe isn't any more prominently portrayed as the other ones. At least one other, that is. The book doesn't take any risks. In fact it cannot take any risks. The ending becomes aparent after the very first chapters, and the novel isn't nearly as dark as it could, and probably should, have been. Entertaining, but has all the bad characteristics Voyager is infamous for.
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Summary: Very interesting plot. Complete lack of closure.
Review: There are roughly 270 pages in this book. I was fasicinated with the 1st 269 pages. When the story ended I was left with, "Wait a minute they ended too soon. Where's the rest of the story?" The book set up too many plot lines on the planet surface that went unexplored. Such as the need for more amacolite. I thought they could have added about 10 more pages that found a reason, any reason, to go to the planet afterward and get their amacolite and see what normal life is like on the planet. Also don't read this book until you can find enough time to read it in one day. It is difficult to follow otherwise. This could be one of my favorites if there was a better ending.
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Summary: A VERY cool Book
Review: This Book is awsome, but it gets kind of confusing, because there are about 19 different parralel universes in it. Don't get me wrong, I love Star Trek books with parallel universes in them. A must have book.
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Summary: What got me into Star Trek Books
Review: This book was the very first Star Trek book I had ever read. Being a big fan of the Voyager series and having to travel a lot for my company I decided to buy this book to read on the plane. This book was absolutely fantastic. I like sci-fi that also adds some philosophical discussion or ideas to the story, and that is what this did. The idea of multiple dimensions and Janeway over a com-line with various versions of herself from those dimensions is quite intriguing to me. While this is by no means a new idea, I enjoyed the manner in which the story was told. Since my reading this (in 2001) I've read numerous other Trek Books and this is still my favorite.
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Summary: What got me into Star Trek Books
Review: This book was the very first Star Trek book I had ever read. Being a big fan of the Voyager series and having to travel a lot for my company I decided to buy this book to read on the plane. This book was absolutely fantastic. I like sci-fi that also adds some philosophical discussion or ideas to the story, and that is what this did. The idea of multiple dimensions and Janeway over a com-line with various versions of herself from those dimensions is quite intriguing to me. While this is by no means a new idea, I enjoyed the manner in which the story was told. Since my reading this (in 2001) I've read numerous other Trek Books and this is still my favorite.
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Summary: A Great Book
Review: This has to be one of the best Star Trek: Voyager books ever. I loved the plot and the characters were well written and believable. I will admit that I had to think and work to keep track of which universe I was in while I was reading this book. I recommend this book to any Star Trek fan.
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Summary: A good read for the thinking mind
Review: This is a really good book, but I needed to keep track of what universe it was in on paper! Its a complex storyline and it digs into both the characters and the plot really well. I didn't begin watching Voyager until the end of it's third season, and I found the history that kept this book cannon to the series really interesting (I didn't know our Harry was from another universe!). A good book to read, but keep some paper and a pen handy...
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Summary: Very Interesting Storyline
Review: This is a very good book. The idea of parallel universies has always been a captivating one and the author handles this very well. A lot of small details of each character are brought out but most importantly you feel like the author is being true to the characters. I am currently reading Voyager #9 - Invasion #4 and you feel like the author has just watched a few episodes and doesn't understand the characters that well. This is certainly not the case with Echoes. Another reviewer complained about the ending of the book being too abrupt but to me, another ten pages explaning what happened after would have spoiled the book. The book ended prefectly.
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Summary: Not bad.
Review: This is definitely ne of the better Voyager books, and goes to show that you don't always need a six book series for a good story. Basically, the story involves some sort of rift in space which spans across parallel dimensions, and after a period of time, it beams the entire population of a certain planet into space, each time accessing a different dimension, weird stuff. Voyager comes across this vast pool of bodies in space and investigates, and along the way bumps into some parallel Voyagers, and some of the crew get misplaced throughout these dimensions.
The story ends as most time travel/alternate dimension stories end, with the crew sacrificing themselves to preserve the timeline, and afterwards, nobody really knows what happened, sort of pointless in a way, bit like Year in Hell.
The writing was solid, excellent characterisations, and nearly every major character played a role, even Kes. The novel was set in season 3, pre seven of nine Voyager, so the story wasn't centered around the Borg. I felt this story really captured the 'essence' of season 3, each season of the show has a distinct look and feel about it, this book was most definitely season 3.
The novel also dealt with the alternate dimensions well, the left/right system was a good analogy, not as confusing as a more recent J&G novel series, the authors made it fairly easy to understand. Another point of mention, what was the go with three authors? It's a rare event to see a novel with three authors, but the results are there is this one.
A good read, reminiscent of the days when Voyager was relatively innocent, before the plot became too convoluted, maybe not worth buying, but definitely worth borrowing from a library of friend.
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Summary: Absolutely haunting story!
Review: This is one of the best stories in the Voyager series. The writers' descriptions of the action and reactions are very unsettling, and immediately draw you into the story. The only negative I found was that it was hard to keep track of which universe the writers currently had you in, but the story is absolutely engaging.
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