Rating: 
Summary: Passable
Review: Another passable book as the written series was trying to find its feet. The Hortas explored in the first Star Trek series are brought back here. The logic of bringing creatures on board a space station who can bore through anything is questionable and again its the Cardassians who are throwing a wrench into the plans.
It took awhile for the written series to find it's own feet, amazingly enough when the series went off of TV and was dependent upon the written series as the sole outlet.
Rating:
Summary: Passable
Review: Another passable book as the written series was trying to find its feet. The Hortas explored in the first Star Trek series are brought back here. The logic of bringing creatures on board a space station who can bore through anything is questionable and again its the Cardassians who are throwing a wrench into the plans.
It took awhile for the written series to find it's own feet, amazingly enough when the series went off of TV and was dependent upon the written series as the sole outlet.
Rating: 
Summary: A quick read, but gobs of fun and adventure.
Review: I don't know about you, but I'm having a big ol' ball going back and reading some of these earlier Trek novels (See "The Murdered Sun").Greg Cox and John Gregory Betancourt penned a wonderful, two-plot early adventure that ties in canon information about the Hortas with newer information about the Cardassians. This novel just sizzled with all that lovely hatred the Bajorans had for their (former) oppressors. This one's also chock full of early Bashir attitude, before we learned about his enhanced genetics and certainly *well* before he got over himself about being a ladies man. Quite entertaining, I say, and darned amusing, too. In fact, this story abounds with perfect early characterizations of all of them - Kira, Dax, Odo, Quark, the O'Briens, Sisko, Nog, Jake, and Rom, and was a pure delight to read, this long after the series ended. But don't worry about the Cardies or the Hortas - Our Man Bashir comes through in the end. Wait a minute, what am I saying? *Everybody* comes through in the end - of COURSE they do, this is Star Trek! And there's nothing wrong with that. A-plot concentrates on a daring Kira/Bashir/Dax rescue of a mama Horta from the Cardies, and when you stir in the almost-goofy b-plot about 20 accidentally-hatched baby Hortas on DS9 (mmm...who managed that, don't ya wonder?), you've got a what amounts to a mighty grand escapade in the finest of Star Trek tradition.
Rating: 
Summary: DS9 #11 Devil in the Sky - An enjoyable Trek tale!
Review: I found it interesting to read in the interview with Greg Cox by Kevin Dilmore in the back of "Star Trek The Q Continuum" that Greg Cox and John Gregory Betancourt had written "Devil in the Sky" with only the series bible, the script for "Emissary" and having only watched a few episodes. The reason I found this so interesting is that in this novel, which was the inaugural Star Trek novel for both authors, they captured the characters and the feel of Star Trek Deep Space Nine so well. You will quickly find that the pacing of this novel and both authors overall writing styles lend well to a quick and thoroughly enjoyable read. Both authors proved with this novel that both of their works, whether collaborative or individual, are to be looked forward to. One of the main themes that started in this novel and has continued to today in novels written by Greg Cox, is his penchant for using characters and species from all of the series, but most especially the Original Series, such as his use of the Hortas in this novel, which according to his interview with Kevin Dilmore was John Ordover's idea. "Devil in the Sky" also lends itself very well to the early feel of the series. This is the type of story you "could've" seen on the series, except for the prohibitive costs of using the Horta via a heavy amount of CGI. The cover art for "Devil in the Sky" isn't all that imaginative other than the drawing of a Horta, giving a potential reader that this creature from the Original Series is included in the story. The premise: Bajor has recruited the Hortas from Janus VI to help rebuild their devastated mining industry all in the hopes of revitalizing their struggling economy. Unfortunately for the Hortas and the Bajorans, Cardassian raiders step in and abduct the Mother Horta. Now Commander Sisko finds himself stuck with twenty Horta eggs and they suddenly begin to hatch and the only food source for them appears to be Deep Space Nine itself. Meanwhile, Major Kira sets out on a rescue mission, deep in Cardassian space. I highly recommend this novel to any and all fans of the series or Star Trek in general. If you've never read a novel written by one or both of these authors, you will soon learn that they can definitely be counted among some of the best that Star Trek has to offer. {ssintrepid}
Rating:
Summary: DS9 #11 Devil in the Sky - An enjoyable Trek tale!
Review: I found it interesting to read in the interview with Greg Cox by Kevin Dilmore in the back of "Star Trek The Q Continuum" that Greg Cox and John Gregory Betancourt had written "Devil in the Sky" with only the series bible, the script for "Emissary" and having only watched a few episodes. The reason I found this so interesting is that in this novel, which was the inaugural Star Trek novel for both authors, they captured the characters and the feel of Star Trek Deep Space Nine so well. You will quickly find that the pacing of this novel and both authors overall writing styles lend well to a quick and thoroughly enjoyable read. Both authors proved with this novel that both of their works, whether collaborative or individual, are to be looked forward to. One of the main themes that started in this novel and has continued to today in novels written by Greg Cox, is his penchant for using characters and species from all of the series, but most especially the Original Series, such as his use of the Hortas in this novel, which according to his interview with Kevin Dilmore was John Ordover's idea. "Devil in the Sky" also lends itself very well to the early feel of the series. This is the type of story you "could've" seen on the series, except for the prohibitive costs of using the Horta via a heavy amount of CGI. The cover art for "Devil in the Sky" isn't all that imaginative other than the drawing of a Horta, giving a potential reader that this creature from the Original Series is included in the story. The premise: Bajor has recruited the Hortas from Janus VI to help rebuild their devastated mining industry all in the hopes of revitalizing their struggling economy. Unfortunately for the Hortas and the Bajorans, Cardassian raiders step in and abduct the Mother Horta. Now Commander Sisko finds himself stuck with twenty Horta eggs and they suddenly begin to hatch and the only food source for them appears to be Deep Space Nine itself. Meanwhile, Major Kira sets out on a rescue mission, deep in Cardassian space. I highly recommend this novel to any and all fans of the series or Star Trek in general. If you've never read a novel written by one or both of these authors, you will soon learn that they can definitely be counted among some of the best that Star Trek has to offer. {ssintrepid}
Rating:
Summary: Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Devil in the sky
Review: I rate this book pretty good because not only do I like the series but by the story of the book. I have watched many Star Trek shows that have plots like this book. So, it was a good one!
Rating: 
Summary: Where do you get those crazy ideas?
Review: It was our editor, John Ordover at Pocket Books, who first suggested bringing the Hortas back, although he rejected my original title: "Horta Hatches an Egg." (Another take on the Hortas can be found in Diane Duane's Star Trek novel, "Spock's World.")
Rating: 
Summary: not among the best
Review: It's interesting reading this book now, having seen the final part of DS9 on TV. This is a book dating back at the beginning of the series. Bashir is still the eager inexperienced young man, who wants to practice "true frontier medicine", Kira's still the though, nearly out of control ex, but not really ex, guerilla. The characterisation is not flawed in this book. But the characters have evolved so much in the 7 years that it's almost incredable to read about the beginning. And because almost half of the book deals with the psychological processes of these two and between these two, it's not among the best of ST DS9 books I've read (That's Fallen Heroes,, of course). Besides this, the second plot line deals with a nest of horta babies crawling through the station, being unresponsive to communication or to faser fire. Of course the crisis rises as they crawl on, distroying this or that vital part of the station. Boredom rises as well, for nothing really happens besides more destruction and more desparation. Definately not among the best.
Rating:
Summary: ST: DS-9 Devil in the Sky
Review: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Devil in the Sky written by Greg Cox and John Gregory Betancourt is a true to character novel about one of the universe's best miners... The Horta from Janus VI. This is a two-plotted book with a fast paced theme within the major plot. The Horta were recruited to help rebuild Bajor's devastated mining industry after the Cardassian occupation. The planet's struggling economy needs a boost with the exportation of minerals and the Horta are the best miners in the galaxy. So, Mother Horta with twenty Horta eggs are on Deep Space Nine ready to mine away the rock. But, this wouldn't be TREK without a hitch in the gitty-up... that is the Carassian kidnapp Mother Horta and her eggs are beginning to hatch on Deep Space Nine without their moter. Hortas can go through solid rock like us walking through water. Kira/bashir are on a rescue mission to retrive Mother Horta (the first plot). Commander Benjamin Sisko is on Deep Space Nine with the twenty hatching,(the second plot). Horta hatchlings can be very uncontrollable without guidence from the mother. I enjoyed this fast paced book and the characters of Benjamin Sisko, Jake, Rom, Kira, Bashir, Odo, and O'Brian were all very true to their respective characters. The storylines were woven with just enough of the story to keep you interested to the ending. All in all, this was a well-written action-adventure with interesting characterizations.
Rating:
Summary: Hortas in the sky!
Review: The Hortas have been one of those races of space aliens, the like not found in any other Sci-Fi. While reading this novel, I noticed that the story could have been worked for the Original, Next Generation, or as they chose it, the DS9 storyline.
This combination of Cox and Betancourt writing styles did produce a nice Star Trek Novel. I have rated it as one of the better ones that have been produced recently.
Worth the price.
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