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Summary: Star Trek: Shadows on the Sun
Review: Star Trek: Shadows on the Sun written by Michael Jaan Friedman is a flashback novel with the primary character being Dr. Leonard McCoy. McCoy confronts his past in order to save the future, also we read of McCoy's past and why he left a wife behind.It is refreshing to read a Star Trek book that kicks the James T. Kirk character to the back burner and highlights someone else as the lead character, is the case of "Shadows on the Sun" is just such a book. We read about the successful young doctor McCoy with a storybook family, but McCoy is in for a betrayal from the woman he loves. Now, McCoy leaves everything he had on Earth and heads for outer space and a career in Starfleet. Everything is fine for forty years as McCoy makes a career in Starfleet, now a crises has developed on the planet of Ssan. The Ssani have a long history of being assassins and the U.S.S. Enterprise and her crew are sent to negotiate a settlement with a group of mediators aboard. As the Enterprise is on the way McCoy meets his ex-wife after forty years as she is one of the negotiaters. Of course nothing is going right with the Ssani as a matter of course, they use assassination as a matter of fact and a way of life."Shadow of the Sun" is a Ssani saying that means Sun is the image of viewing the life cycle and Shadow is the individual life. The individual casts a shadow on the the Sun of all life. The mediators and Captain Kirk are now taken hostage as a Civil War rages and it is upto McCoy to draw from his past to save the negotiations and save the day. The narrative moves very quickly and the prose are true to the characters and McCoy is the stand out hero of the book. If you are a Dr. Leonard McCoy fan this is your book to read as the character of McCoy get fleshed out early in McCoys career through flashbacks.
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Summary: Star Trek: Shadows on the Sun
Review: Star Trek: Shadows on the Sun written by Michael Jaan Friedman is a flashback novel with the primary character being Dr. Leonard McCoy. McCoy confronts his past in order to save the future, also we read of McCoy's past and why he left a wife behind. It is refreshing to read a Star Trek book that kicks the James T. Kirk character to the back burner and highlights someone else as the lead character, is the case of "Shadows on the Sun" is just such a book. We read about the successful young doctor McCoy with a storybook family, but McCoy is in for a betrayal from the woman he loves. Now, McCoy leaves everything he had on Earth and heads for outer space and a career in Starfleet. Everything is fine for forty years as McCoy makes a career in Starfleet, now a crises has developed on the planet of Ssan. The Ssani have a long history of being assassins and the U.S.S. Enterprise and her crew are sent to negotiate a settlement with a group of mediators aboard. As the Enterprise is on the way McCoy meets his ex-wife after forty years as she is one of the negotiaters. Of course nothing is going right with the Ssani as a matter of course, they use assassination as a matter of fact and a way of life."Shadow of the Sun" is a Ssani saying that means Sun is the image of viewing the life cycle and Shadow is the individual life. The individual casts a shadow on the the Sun of all life. The mediators and Captain Kirk are now taken hostage as a Civil War rages and it is upto McCoy to draw from his past to save the negotiations and save the day. The narrative moves very quickly and the prose are true to the characters and McCoy is the stand out hero of the book. If you are a Dr. Leonard McCoy fan this is your book to read as the character of McCoy get fleshed out early in McCoys career through flashbacks.
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Summary: All about Bones
Review: The Starship Enterprise and it's crew are scheduled for retirement when they are sent on one last mission to a hostile planet. McCoy's past becomes the center piece to the diplomatic solution. Friedman explores a deeper understanding of McCoy and gives the reader/star trek fan a greater appreciation for the stubborn doctor. You will see Bones in a different light after reading this book.
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Summary: 2 plots: Dr.McCoy's reunion w/ex-wife Jocelyn and assassins
Review: The title, Shadows on the Sun, is unclear, because it has nothing to do with a star. The novel has 2 plot lines. One is the meeting and negotiations with a group of terrorists on a planet, which involves a husband-and-wife team of Federation diplomats. The other plot has to do with Dr.McCoy's reunion with the wife portion of the diplomatic team--she used to be McCoy's wife before they divorced and he went to med school. I won't tell what happens at the end, but I find it amazing that in the 23rd century, assassins still exist, especially these--their actions clearly resemble the ones performed by ninja. Maybe the title should have been Negotiating with the SSan Ninja?
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Summary: It's a great book with memories from McCoy and his ex.
Review: This is a great book. It shares all the emotions that the good Dr. McCoy was or is expeiriencing. How his heart wrenching divorce came to be and why he entered Starfleet. Buy this book! You won't regret, unless you don't like heart felt stories and lively imaginations.
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Summary: comment on the title...
Review: this is star trek as i like it- a good human story about a great character, and one that doesn't singlehandedly refute all but federation view- yes, it allows other species to have their own way of life without being smallminded (unlike, in "shell game"(melissa crandall?): a romulan character says 'honor? from a romulan? hahaha.." or something to that effect.. o pulease...) i mostly agree with what the general reader has reviewed up there. i just want to comment that the title "shadows on the sun" is made VERY clear in the novel..unlike what one reader has complained of above. it refers to a line in Ssani poetry (written by a chief assansin no less) about life and death.. 'sun' is the image of being or the cycle of life; the 'shadows' are individual lives, and by being removed (by way of assasins), the 'sun' is allowed to shine brighter.. .. not to say i agree with this,(lol) or even admire the pseudo philosophy made up by M J friedman.. just to clear up a little misunderstanding up there.
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