The Price of the Phoenix
10 best books like The Price of the Phoenix (Sondra Marshak): Small Gods, Logan's Run, Drive, Killing Time, Spock's World, Star Trek I: The Motion Picture, The Wounded Sky, Mudd's Angels, The Art of Star Trek, Mission to Horatius
| Author | Terry Pratchett |
| ISBN | 0552152978 |
Just because you can't explain it, doesn't mean it's a miracle.' Religion is a controversial business in the Discworld. Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods. Who come in all shapes and sizes. In such a competitive environment, there is a pressing need to make one's presence felt....
| Author | William F. Nolan |
| ISBN | 0553025171 |
It's the 23rd Century and at age 21... your life is over! Logan-6 has been trained to kill; born and bred from conception to be the best of the best. But his time is short and before his life ends he's got one final mission: Find and destroy Sanctuary, a fabled haven for those that chose to defy the system. But...
| Author | James Sallis |
| ISBN | 0156030322 |
Set mostly in Arizona and L.A., Drive is about a man who does stunt driving for movies by day and drives for criminals at night. Sallis combines murder, treachery and payback in a sinister plot with resonances of 1940s pulp fiction and film noir. Told through a cinematic narrative that weaves back and...
| Author | Della Van Hise |
| ISBN | 0671524887 |
Second History: a Romulan time-tampering project that has transported the Enterprise and the galaxy into an alternate dimension of reality. Now, Kirk is an embittered young ensign and Spock is a beseiged Starship commander. Lured into a Romulan trap, Captain Spock and Ensign Kirk must free themselves...
| Author | Diane Duane |
| ISBN | 0743403711 |
It is the twenty-third century. On the planet Vulcan, a crisis of unprecedented proportion has caused the convocation of the planet's ruling council -- and summoned the U.S.S. "Enterprise(TM) " from halfway across the galaxy to bring Vulcan's most famous son home in its hour of need. As Commander Spock,...
Star Trek I: The Motion Picture
| Author | Gene Roddenberry |
| ISBN | 1852860693 |
The Final Frontier goes to the Big Screen!
THE FORCE FACTOR
This is the novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, written by Gene Roddenberry, but I think that Alan Dean Foster must be the "ghost writer" of the novelization.
I think that all was due the "competition"...
An alien scientist invents the Intergalactic Inversion Drive, an engine system that transcends warp drive, and the U.S.S. Enterprise will be the first to test it! The Klingons attempt to thwart the test, but a greater danger looms when strange symptoms surface among the crew, and time becomes meaningless....
| Author | J.A. Lawrence |
| ISBN | 1852865105 |
Scheming to take over the starship Enterprise and ultimately the entire galaxy, the infamous Harry Mudd paralyzes the galactic economy by creating a monopoly on the most valuable fuel source in the universe--dilithium.
This book consists of adaptations of two Star Trek episodes ("Mudd's...
| Author | Judith Reeves-Stevens |
| ISBN | 0671017764 |
From the public's first glimpse of the original Starship "Enterprise" to the brave new worlds explored in Star Trek: Voyager, the never-ending phenomenon that is Star Trek has treated generations of viewers to a dazzling barrage of unforgettable images of the future. Bizarre alien beings, breathtaking...
Wow, lots of folks were stingy with the stars on this one! I just let myself enjoy it for what it was.... Star Trek fiction written a hell of a long time ago, with wonderful cheesy illustrations and a wonderfully terrible plotline. (Make sure you check out the introduction... some great 1960's-til-Kirk...
| Author | James Sallis |
| ISBN | 1464200106 |
Driven is the sequel to Drive, now also an award-winning film. As we exit the initial novel, Driver has killed Bernie Rose, “the only one he ever mourned,” ending his campaign against those who double-crossed him. Driven tells how that young man, done with killing, later will become the one who goes...
Star Trek - The Key Collection: Volume 1
| Author | Alberto Giolitti |
| ISBN | 0974166448 |
From 1967 through 1979, Gold Key published the first Star Trek comics, totalling 60 issues in all. +They‚were first collected in four seperate Enterprise Logs by Golden Press. Now Checker reprints these classic tales. This volume is the first of six editions and collects issues 1-8.
in...
History of NASA: America's Voyage to the Stars
| Author | E. John Dewaard |
| ISBN | 0671069837 |
The provenance of my copy of this book is uncertain; I probably rescued it from a discard bin somewhere, given the age and condition of my copy. In any case, it ended up on a bottom shelf untouched for many years until I moved, and I'm finally getting around to reading some of the books that were consigned...
Star Trek 101: A Practical Guide to Who, What, Where, and Why
| Author | Terry J. Erdmann |
| ISBN | 0743497236 |
In the future, a heroic captain and his crew explore the Galaxy in a really fast spacecraft. The crew's standing orders are:
"...to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before."™
Simple, straightforward -- that's Star Trek.®...
The Star Trek Concordance
| Author | Bjo Trimble |
| ISBN | 0806516100 |
Most Trek books revel in trivia that would puzzle Spock himself How can a latecomer to Star Trek ever catch up? Here, in a funny and easy-to-read format, is everything that those unfamiliar with the Star Trek universe need to know to be brought up to warp speed with their significant Trekking other.Coping...
Star Trek - The Key Collection: Volume 5
| Author | Len Wein |
| ISBN | 1933160136 |
A strange new world where Spock the vegetarian eats beef stew... Scotty solves his problems with spankings... and McCoy's xenobiologist daughter Barbara is either a brunette who's great with animals or a blonde who's not.
See a robot-brained hippie thawed in the present and wrongfully talking...
The Making of the Trek Conventions: Or, How to Throw a Party for 12,000 of Your Most Intimate Friends
| Author | Joan Winston |
| ISBN | 0385131127 |
In The Making of the Trek Conventions original Star Trek Welcommittee (STW) member Joan Winston takes us through the day to day running and behind-the-scenes secrets of STW's Star Trek conventions, which ran in New York City each year from 1972 to 1976. The book is an eye-opening read for modern convention-goers...
Star Trek - The Key Collection: Volume 2
| Author | Alberto Giolitti |
| ISBN | 0971024987 |
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