Customer Reviews: Best Star Trek Novel Ever Written!August 5, 2009 Robert E. Hasse(Idyllwild, CA USA) Most Star Trek novels I've suffered through (and I have tales of suffering!) wallow nauseatingly in affection for the original characters to the virtual exclusion of what made the original series (at its best) so much fun: suspenseful and cleverly handled science fiction adventures--plain-old well-told stories!
This book is more than just a rare exception. It's actually a first-rate, polished science-fiction novel in its own right. I'll go further. It's as good as the very best Star Trek stories of the original series (the only worthwhile series in the franchise, as far as I'm concerned). Time travel stories rarely come off, even some written by the better writers in the genre. Only those writers with the knack for taking control of the inherent paradoxes--and indeed those who understand how to exploit them--really pull it off in grand style. I'm tempted to suggest that Poul Anderson, the master of such Time Operas, would have approved, had he read this novel. (Who knows?--maybe he did.)
The Entropy Effect is the best of the best. It recaptures the magic of the original series (something few movies or later TV shows ever managed), and does it to perfection.
Give The Entropy Effect by Vonda McIntyre a try. It's hard to imagine you'll be disappointed.
Classic TrekDecember 27, 2008 P. McCoy(Greenbelt, MD United States) 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm still in the process of reading this book and I'm having some difficulty with the way the characters are treated in this story. Having grown up watching classic Trek, I feel that I am familiar with the characters aboard the USS Enterprise...Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Sulu, etc. The way these characters are portrayed in this story feels incongruent with the characters on the TV series. I'm attempting to keep an open mind until I finish the story to see if the treatment of the characters improve. Otherwise, my rating may be lowered from the three stars that I am provisionally giving.
Great Read.December 19, 2006 Jeff C. Neilson(El paso, TX) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have always been a big Star Trek fan, but this is the first of the books I have read. If the rest are this good I'll be thrilled. You don't have to know everything about Star Trek to enjoy this book. Whether a fan or not it's still a great book.
Time and time againSeptember 10, 2006 Jeanne Tassotto(Trapped in the Midwest) 5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Enterprise was conducting a very demanding and dangerous scientific study, or rather Spock was conducting a very demanding and dangerous scientific study, the rest of the Enterprise was waiting for him to finish so they could leave, hopefully before the object being studied demolished the Enterprise. It was rather a relief then when they received a priority call to a nearby system. The relief was shortlived and soon the crew found itself dealing with time travel and paradoxes that threatened their lives and perhaps the space/time continum itself.
This is one of the earlier numbers of the classic Star Trek tie-in novelizations, originally issued in 1981, and is one of the best of the series. McIntyre has done an excellent job of portraying the characters and has delivered an exciting plot as well but has managed to avoid violating the cannon set down in the original series and ensuing movies.
This is an excellent novel that would be enjoyable to even the most casual fan of the classic series.
a classicSeptember 9, 2006 Richard W Little(Huizhou, Guangdong Province, China) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Vonda McIntyre's The Entropy Effect is a great novel, even if you're not a fan of Star Trek. I'm pleased to have this on my bookshelf for the past 20-odd years.
