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Star Hunt
In the prequel to Voyage of the Star Wolf, first officer Jonathan Korie drives his captain and the crew of their obsolete starship on a fanatical, possibly disastrous search for an enemy that may be a phantom.
Originally published as Yesterday's Children
Originally published as Yesterday's Children
288 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1972
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September 18, 2025
This is a military science fiction novel in which there is such a class and age difference between the command class and the regular crew that anarchy and madness result. As Gerrold himself pointed out, the original concept was that the starships engaged in a space-opera war would have a whole lot more in common with the claustrophobic confines of submarines than anything else. The book is quite dark and has much more of a depressed mental Barry N. Malzberg feel than the heroics of Heinlein or Haldeman or Dickson or Drake or Scalzi or Star Trek. Some years after this initial Dell printing, with its nifty purple Paul Lehr cover, Gerrold rewrote and expanded the ending with an entirely different conclusion that changed things significantly (published by Bantam in '95 as Starhunt) and then wrote his Star Wolf trilogy continuing the story. I didn't read the newer iteration; there was too much gloom the first time around.
March 27, 2011
A rousing space opera with one of the best descriptions of how FTL travel could work, given certain assumptions. Gerrold's a master of making life on voyages of a military spaceship seem real— how it will be.
John Korie is the protagonist of Gerrold's Star Wolf series. Originally titled Yesterday's Children, the author later revised this novel, calling it Starhunt. The ending of the 2 books are 180° different. Yesterday's Children paints Korie as a hard nosed 1st officer to an incompetent Captain and demoralized crew, running the spaceship and hated by the crew The surprise ending of Yesterday's Children paints Korie as a fool.
The change in the ending in Starhunt brings Korie more into line with his role as hero in the following Star Wolf trilogy.
John Korie is the protagonist of Gerrold's Star Wolf series. Originally titled Yesterday's Children, the author later revised this novel, calling it Starhunt. The ending of the 2 books are 180° different. Yesterday's Children paints Korie as a hard nosed 1st officer to an incompetent Captain and demoralized crew, running the spaceship and hated by the crew The surprise ending of Yesterday's Children paints Korie as a fool.
The change in the ending in Starhunt brings Korie more into line with his role as hero in the following Star Wolf trilogy.
October 30, 2020
Space is still the final frontier. But the voyages of the starship does not have its crew boldly go where nobody has gone before, but sarcastically go across space with a mutinous crew where the generation gap between its captain and his crew dwarfs that of the largest void in the universe. "Yesterday's Children" by David Gerrold -- himself a writer for the original/classic "Star Trek" series -- paints an "anti-Star Trek" which might have more in common with "Star Trek" spinoffs like "Picard", for one. If you like your space travelers and their voyages to be dark, this book is for you. However, if you crave optimism in space (as I do) -- or you simply need something uplifting -- please stick with the classic "Trek".
November 26, 2016
Voyage of the Star Wolf happens to be one of my favorite books, and has influenced much of my own writing and character development in the years since I first read it. So I was excited to discover this prequel novel, Star Hunt, and opened to Chapter 1 with rapt anticipation. Sadly, the story failed heavily to deliver. This is a much slower paced novel, and familiar characters do not act as we've come to expect in 'Voyage' and it's sequels. Towards the end of he novel we are forced to watch our stolid hero Korie flit between madness and hyper-absurdness in his dogged belief in the enemy they are chasing.
Things became clear after I finished the novel and went back to read the foreword by Gerrold. Star Hunt was where several characters he also loved came to life, and he went on to recycle them to much better effect in later novels. As Gerrold relates, the Star Wolf stories are much like submarine life and warfare in space. I'd liken Star Hunt then to a very early black and white submarine war movie, and the follow on novels to ones made in later decades, with better camera work, story-writing, and actors.
Things became clear after I finished the novel and went back to read the foreword by Gerrold. Star Hunt was where several characters he also loved came to life, and he went on to recycle them to much better effect in later novels. As Gerrold relates, the Star Wolf stories are much like submarine life and warfare in space. I'd liken Star Hunt then to a very early black and white submarine war movie, and the follow on novels to ones made in later decades, with better camera work, story-writing, and actors.
March 22, 2023
Originally published as yesterday's children - this claustrophobic deep space character drama is a hidden gem.
Cat and Mouse hunt between space cruisers diving in and out of warp. Because of the extreme distances and speeds, it is challenging to tell how battle ready each ship is. Each encounter is shrouded in mystery. Similar to submarines in the deep sea.
Pile on internal crew conflicts and potential systems errors (or are they?) - and the tension remains high throughout.
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The original novel yesterday's children, ended with the main captain Korie in a state of paranoia and insanity.
Star ⭐ Hunt tweaks that ending to the author's original intent.
Cat and Mouse hunt between space cruisers diving in and out of warp. Because of the extreme distances and speeds, it is challenging to tell how battle ready each ship is. Each encounter is shrouded in mystery. Similar to submarines in the deep sea.
Pile on internal crew conflicts and potential systems errors (or are they?) - and the tension remains high throughout.
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The original novel yesterday's children, ended with the main captain Korie in a state of paranoia and insanity.
Star ⭐ Hunt tweaks that ending to the author's original intent.
March 11, 2017
Exceptionally well-drawn psychological drama in the vein of "Run Silent, Run Deep" only set on a starship during an interstellar way. Present-tense structure tightens the claustrophobic portraits of a mediocre crew driven to excellence by a single-minded first officer under the command of a captain who wants nothing more than to go home
June 2, 2022
Not sure about this one. Old-fashioned sci fi written in the 70's. I'm guessing that's the reason for all the psychological babble. I didn't really like any of the characters. I love space battles, but this was just too much talk and mind games and not enough actual battle for me.
August 11, 2025
Review from here.
Well, volume 6 of Venture SF is a very 1970s-ish space opera about a rundown ought-to-be -pensioned-off space battleship chasing what it's first commander thinks is an enemy.
It's pretty effective. We have a ship, literally in its own universe because the space warp that allows faster-than-light travel wraps it up. The sense of claustrophobia is strong. The crew are at each others' throats, having been on tour for too long and, just when finally on the way home, getting told to do some more. The captain, angling for a desk job, has abdicated responsibility and the ship is being run by a keen first officer who wants to make a name for himself, partly as a way of getting off this rustbucket. When they are 'in warp', they detect other vessels that are in the same state via (my words) the stresses placed on the space-time continuum. So an enemy ship in warp is visible only by inference as a distortion in your own warp field. You cannot actually see out. But imperfect drive equipment can also induce a distortion of the warp field. So what do you really know? Are you chasing a ghost? And, if it's real, if you catch it -- you're in a relic of a ship, and it's probably going to blow you to pieces.
Tense, eh?
This is pretty good space opera, and within the Venture SF series, at least so far, as strong as any of the volumes.
What did I mean by '70s-ish'? The book is a little new wavish, the American version that is often represented by the Dangerous visions anthologies. Key qualities of much of this was (my imperfect scholarship suggests to me) a willingness to experiment with form, but a tendency to retain the more pulpish and technological, outward-looking focus of traditional US SF. UK new wave was (too) intensely pessimistic and far less technological. (Gross generalisations.)
Keeping in mind that space opera and adventure SF in general have tended to be formally pretty conservative, as befits a field in which plot and action rule, Starhunt certainly has some unusual traits. First published in 1973 as Yesterday's children, a title that means nothing, it is written in present tense, and includes a few chapters that consist of nothing but dialogue. Not exactly radical, but not what you'd expect in a book about space battles. Brave choices by Gerrold. I think the present tense works well given the paranoia that the story generates. By being in the moment and not looking back from some presumably secured future, it emphasises the fact that everybody is guessing all the time.
In fact, I would argue that it is the more traditional components that are the weaknesses. Chapters begin with quotes from memoirs by various earlier generals, some, I think, real, others from Gerrold's future world. It's a bit like quotes from Asimov's Encyclopedia Galactica. Some of the quotes are entertaining enough, and serve perhaps to give a sense of the traditions within which the current crop of spacemen serve, but others just paint whoever is saying them as a smug know-it-all in the Heinlein tradition of infallible father figures, which I found annoying, though that's probably just me.
There are perhaps a few too many mini-essays on the nature of warp drives and other imaginary technologies. Some of this is needed, because the distortions in the warp field are a crucial, and very well handled, part of the story. But I think it could have been done more seamlessly.
There's some 'science' of psychological manipulation that becomes prominent in the second half of the book, and a character is an 'alpha matrix' and so on, and it does seem like one pseudoscience too many. Or maybe just a choice of future jargon that did not work for me.
In short, few of my criticisms amount to much, and the strength of the story and the writing far outweigh any weaknesses. If you like a bit of a space battle, and a tight psychological drama, and a bottle show, and don't mind present tense, this is worth a read.
Well, volume 6 of Venture SF is a very 1970s-ish space opera about a rundown ought-to-be -pensioned-off space battleship chasing what it's first commander thinks is an enemy.
It's pretty effective. We have a ship, literally in its own universe because the space warp that allows faster-than-light travel wraps it up. The sense of claustrophobia is strong. The crew are at each others' throats, having been on tour for too long and, just when finally on the way home, getting told to do some more. The captain, angling for a desk job, has abdicated responsibility and the ship is being run by a keen first officer who wants to make a name for himself, partly as a way of getting off this rustbucket. When they are 'in warp', they detect other vessels that are in the same state via (my words) the stresses placed on the space-time continuum. So an enemy ship in warp is visible only by inference as a distortion in your own warp field. You cannot actually see out. But imperfect drive equipment can also induce a distortion of the warp field. So what do you really know? Are you chasing a ghost? And, if it's real, if you catch it -- you're in a relic of a ship, and it's probably going to blow you to pieces.
Tense, eh?
This is pretty good space opera, and within the Venture SF series, at least so far, as strong as any of the volumes.
What did I mean by '70s-ish'? The book is a little new wavish, the American version that is often represented by the Dangerous visions anthologies. Key qualities of much of this was (my imperfect scholarship suggests to me) a willingness to experiment with form, but a tendency to retain the more pulpish and technological, outward-looking focus of traditional US SF. UK new wave was (too) intensely pessimistic and far less technological. (Gross generalisations.)
Keeping in mind that space opera and adventure SF in general have tended to be formally pretty conservative, as befits a field in which plot and action rule, Starhunt certainly has some unusual traits. First published in 1973 as Yesterday's children, a title that means nothing, it is written in present tense, and includes a few chapters that consist of nothing but dialogue. Not exactly radical, but not what you'd expect in a book about space battles. Brave choices by Gerrold. I think the present tense works well given the paranoia that the story generates. By being in the moment and not looking back from some presumably secured future, it emphasises the fact that everybody is guessing all the time.
In fact, I would argue that it is the more traditional components that are the weaknesses. Chapters begin with quotes from memoirs by various earlier generals, some, I think, real, others from Gerrold's future world. It's a bit like quotes from Asimov's Encyclopedia Galactica. Some of the quotes are entertaining enough, and serve perhaps to give a sense of the traditions within which the current crop of spacemen serve, but others just paint whoever is saying them as a smug know-it-all in the Heinlein tradition of infallible father figures, which I found annoying, though that's probably just me.
There are perhaps a few too many mini-essays on the nature of warp drives and other imaginary technologies. Some of this is needed, because the distortions in the warp field are a crucial, and very well handled, part of the story. But I think it could have been done more seamlessly.
There's some 'science' of psychological manipulation that becomes prominent in the second half of the book, and a character is an 'alpha matrix' and so on, and it does seem like one pseudoscience too many. Or maybe just a choice of future jargon that did not work for me.
In short, few of my criticisms amount to much, and the strength of the story and the writing far outweigh any weaknesses. If you like a bit of a space battle, and a tight psychological drama, and a bottle show, and don't mind present tense, this is worth a read.
October 9, 2025
Captain Brandt on the USS Roger Burlingame is a burnout yearning for a desk job; his first officer Kore is an eager, clever and seemingly reckless martinet who wants a ship of his own: the crew have low morale and a long stern chase of a bogie (which may or may not even exist) has created
an atmosphere of barely suppressed anger and violence on the patched-together hulk of a ship. As the chase continues Kore takes over more and more of the captain's roles in his obsession to kill the boaie. Riffina on The Caine Mutinv and Mobv Dick. David Gerold has aiven us a reasonably taut. claustrophobic tale of the disintegration of command and the machinations of ego and power where the outcome is unsure until the end. The problem is that the end may not be the right one, even though it was changed from the original one which was heavily criticised by Lester del Rev in IF Nov/Dec 1972 in the book's earlier incarnation as Yesterday's Children. None of the characters are particularly sympathetic but it is a gripping read.
an atmosphere of barely suppressed anger and violence on the patched-together hulk of a ship. As the chase continues Kore takes over more and more of the captain's roles in his obsession to kill the boaie. Riffina on The Caine Mutinv and Mobv Dick. David Gerold has aiven us a reasonably taut. claustrophobic tale of the disintegration of command and the machinations of ego and power where the outcome is unsure until the end. The problem is that the end may not be the right one, even though it was changed from the original one which was heavily criticised by Lester del Rev in IF Nov/Dec 1972 in the book's earlier incarnation as Yesterday's Children. None of the characters are particularly sympathetic but it is a gripping read.
December 19, 2024
In a word, boring. Another word- sorry!! I take no pleasure from giving a one star I just kept flipping ahead wondering "is this story ever going to move off the bridge??"
Am guessing this book is great for fans of the main series, and thos prequel, which was written afterwards, I'm guessing, developed already-liked characters even further...?
I've never read any of this author's other books. Coming in cold, there was nothing to hold onto. The pace was very, very slow.
Points for realistic militarily culture, but too realistic for anything outside of an actual instruction manual.
Also, everyone on the bridge was pretending to be busy. In tge 16% of the book I did read, every character "turned back to the panel, pretending to be busy" at least once if not multiple times. Once or twice would have been enough, after that, in a work of fiction, you have to go someplace else.
Am guessing this book is great for fans of the main series, and thos prequel, which was written afterwards, I'm guessing, developed already-liked characters even further...?
I've never read any of this author's other books. Coming in cold, there was nothing to hold onto. The pace was very, very slow.
Points for realistic militarily culture, but too realistic for anything outside of an actual instruction manual.
Also, everyone on the bridge was pretending to be busy. In tge 16% of the book I did read, every character "turned back to the panel, pretending to be busy" at least once if not multiple times. Once or twice would have been enough, after that, in a work of fiction, you have to go someplace else.
March 15, 2020
Full review: https://sciencefictionruminations.com...
"*The 1980 edition, still under the title Yesterday’s Children, was substantially rewritten. In 1985 David Gerrold released it under a new title, Starhunt. This is a review for the original 1972 edition. I have not read the later rewrite so I am unsure how much was modified.
David Gerrold, best known for writing the famous Star Trek: The Original Series episode “The Trouble With Tribbles” (1967), has continuously produced SF novels since the early 70s. I had previously read the disappointing Space Skimmer (1972) which combined a fascinating premise with puff-puppies, annoying princes, and bad [...]"
"*The 1980 edition, still under the title Yesterday’s Children, was substantially rewritten. In 1985 David Gerrold released it under a new title, Starhunt. This is a review for the original 1972 edition. I have not read the later rewrite so I am unsure how much was modified.
David Gerrold, best known for writing the famous Star Trek: The Original Series episode “The Trouble With Tribbles” (1967), has continuously produced SF novels since the early 70s. I had previously read the disappointing Space Skimmer (1972) which combined a fascinating premise with puff-puppies, annoying princes, and bad [...]"
March 17, 2021
YESTERDAY'S CHILDREN
A grim search for realism in depicting space warfare. Having established his antihero protagonist aboard a tumbledown ship rife with interpersonal tensions—Star Trek in other words but stripped of hope and idealism—Gerrold pins his denouement on mental breakdown and gimmickry.
STARHUNT
Not merely a reprint. Starhunt does encompass Yesterday’s Children but reboots at that story’s conclusion and ups the word count by a third, rewriting Korie from deranged and overambitious fool to master strategist and king of mind games. The psychobabble is unconvincing.
A grim search for realism in depicting space warfare. Having established his antihero protagonist aboard a tumbledown ship rife with interpersonal tensions—Star Trek in other words but stripped of hope and idealism—Gerrold pins his denouement on mental breakdown and gimmickry.
STARHUNT
Not merely a reprint. Starhunt does encompass Yesterday’s Children but reboots at that story’s conclusion and ups the word count by a third, rewriting Korie from deranged and overambitious fool to master strategist and king of mind games. The psychobabble is unconvincing.
July 13, 2019
An exploration of the psychological impacts of prolonged warfare and being driven to the brink by those who command you, Yeseterday's Children takes the reader along the voyage of an outmoded ship as it chases the enemy. The action is broken up by epistolary asides that provide exposition on character and some world-building. Gerrold keeps the action moving on the cramped ship with gallows humor, terrible leadership, and smart science-based narration and dialogue, all of which leads to an exciting conclusion. Highly recommended science fiction.
August 14, 2020
The copy I have of this is the later version where David Gerrold redid the ending. It's really obvious where the original ending was and where the additional material starts. The style and the focus of the story abruptly shifts. It's still a really good story, but a little uneven. It's quite different than his Star Trek work, much darker in tone.
I've had the other books in the Star Wolf series for years and quite enjoyed them, I may have to reread them now that I finally read this one and refresh my memory of them.
I've had the other books in the Star Wolf series for years and quite enjoyed them, I may have to reread them now that I finally read this one and refresh my memory of them.
December 31, 2023
Enjoyable 70s Sci-Fi, not so much about the battle, but the psychological wear on men on an overworked starship chasing down an opponent. No one wants to be on this particular ship, which is good for short patrols, but is pursuing what might be a better ship. The captain wants to be assigned to a desk job, the first officer is eager for his first kill to get promoted, and the rest of the crew is exhausted.
March 17, 2024
Reads like an episode of Star Trek which makes sense because the author wrote several episodes of (the original) Star Trek. It eventually becomes an interesting meditation on war, but for a short book it is filled with way too much pseudo-technical filler about space travel which gets quite tiresome.
June 2, 2025
A jury rigged space cruiser in a long chase to catch an enemy ship. This tale explores the crew in a confined place with little or no outside influence, and looks at the issues affecting them. It feels in some ways like a submarine and crew during a lull in the fighting. A bit of a slow burn. Not really my type of tale.
February 21, 2019
David Harris sways brings us sold characters and satisfying stories. This is no different, even more so. Gerrold writes a series that he's beyond way Star Trek was and to do--create an intricate believable system, with character-watering problems. A pleasure to read.
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December 14, 2020One of my first sf-novels I read. I don't remember finished it. I was really young at that time, but I remind faintly some technical issues and the rough words, which the crew uses, when the men ague.
August 12, 2019
Enjoyed this - but boy does it move fast at the end.
September 22, 2021
At last. Some real science in science fiction.
April 12, 2022
This was different, and it's the best thing I've read by Gerrold, who of course wrote that novel about the guy who traveled back in time to fuck himself. And the tribbles, on Star Track or whatever.
June 4, 2022
Didn't really enjoy it. Lots of mental blather with Korie. Can't say I liked any of the characters. I don't think I'll be reading this again.
September 22, 2022
Kind of a homoerotic Caine Mutiny meets Starship Troopers.
July 23, 2024
Intriguing psychological thriller in space. Enjoyed it. Smart book. Only problem was that my Amazon purchase of the book didn’t download the last chapter!
November 2, 2012
I actually started reading a different book of Gerrold's, Voyage of the Star Wolf. The beginning of that was absolutely great, but I realized there were a couple other books which occurred chronologically before it, so I put it down and ordered them. Later I read that Star Hunt may be either a prequel or a sequel in the Wolf series...well, whatever.
This book was extremely different from A Matter For Men, and also unlike the beginning of Star Wolf. The plot is that the captain is inept, and the First Office may or may not be crazy and trying to fight an enemy nobody else believes is there. It sounds pretty straightforward, but Gerrold did some really cool things with it. Unfortunately, Gerrold gets far too wrapped up in explaining the theoretical details of how the ship's warp worked, etc. While much of this was actually essential to the plot, I think he went overboard and the book got bogged down in the details. But all of that changed...
This book was originally released as Yesterday's Children, but in 1977 Gerrold added chapters to it and re-released it. In the intro to the printing I got, the author tells you where the original book ended, and I've got to say that the additional chapters were the best part of the book. He starts this babbling monologue by the First Officer that's really cool. The book's almost got a horror feel to it for these parts, very paranoid. Overall, I'd say it's worth reading, but not even in the same league as A Matter For Men.
This book was extremely different from A Matter For Men, and also unlike the beginning of Star Wolf. The plot is that the captain is inept, and the First Office may or may not be crazy and trying to fight an enemy nobody else believes is there. It sounds pretty straightforward, but Gerrold did some really cool things with it. Unfortunately, Gerrold gets far too wrapped up in explaining the theoretical details of how the ship's warp worked, etc. While much of this was actually essential to the plot, I think he went overboard and the book got bogged down in the details. But all of that changed...
This book was originally released as Yesterday's Children, but in 1977 Gerrold added chapters to it and re-released it. In the intro to the printing I got, the author tells you where the original book ended, and I've got to say that the additional chapters were the best part of the book. He starts this babbling monologue by the First Officer that's really cool. The book's almost got a horror feel to it for these parts, very paranoid. Overall, I'd say it's worth reading, but not even in the same league as A Matter For Men.
June 13, 2011
This was originally known as "Voyage of the Star Wolf", a single book, which I read ages ago. Since it became a series, I have not continued. The original version was like Moby Dick in space. A later version came out, being the first book in the series, with more chapters added. It completely changed the original story, and I was not happy.
*EDIT
I was mistaken. The original was "Voyage of the Star Wolf", and when he chose to make a series out of it, "Star Hunt" became a prequel. I was still more disappointed that he made this change, in addition to rewriting the original. I have not read the rest of the series. I was also disappointed to find his changes on "When Harlie Was One, version 2.0" and rewriting fine stories seemed to be a trend of David Gerrold at the time. After reading the "longest damned trilogy" he'd ever written, the War Against the Chtorr series, and realizing he would never finish that, I began to search for a different favorite writer, finding it with Harlan Ellison until the late 1990's, when Harlan's style seemed to change after a heart attack. David Gerrold won my favor back after "The Martian Child".
*EDIT
I was mistaken. The original was "Voyage of the Star Wolf", and when he chose to make a series out of it, "Star Hunt" became a prequel. I was still more disappointed that he made this change, in addition to rewriting the original. I have not read the rest of the series. I was also disappointed to find his changes on "When Harlie Was One, version 2.0" and rewriting fine stories seemed to be a trend of David Gerrold at the time. After reading the "longest damned trilogy" he'd ever written, the War Against the Chtorr series, and realizing he would never finish that, I began to search for a different favorite writer, finding it with Harlan Ellison until the late 1990's, when Harlan's style seemed to change after a heart attack. David Gerrold won my favor back after "The Martian Child".
March 7, 2016
This is an old fashion story of combat. The story has elements of submarine warfare. The Star Wolf series reflects Gerrold's contention that, due to the distances involved, space battles would be more like submarine hunts than the dogfights usually portrayed—in most cases the ships doing battle wouldn't even be able to see each other. Storyline is similar to Glen Cook's Passage at Arms,and the Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk. David Gerrold is able to give the reader the intimate experience the claustrophobia,and tension that are the essence men locked in a slow moving but desperate battle with a superior enemy.
The book is part 1 of 4 books is the Star Wolf series. Each book is a complete story in and of itself. At the actor suggests reading then in the following order Star Hunt also known as Yesterdays Children, The voyage of the Star Wolf, The Middle of Nowhere, and the final book in the series Blood and fire.
February 21, 2018
Not as good as "The Voyage of the Star Wolf" or "Blood and Fire", yet worth a read.
Overall a nice novel, but probably not the best "entry point" for someone approaching the series for the first time: the events described are not essential to the understanding or the enjoyment of the following ones, while on the other hand I'm afraid it would be hard to feel any kind of attachment to the main character, as portrayed in this book, unless you've already learnt to appreciate him and his psychology in the later novels.
Furthermore, many details so wonderfully described in The Voyage (the ship's layout, its technology, the principles of warp drive and spaceship's warfare) are here, in comparison, only marginally sketched.
I would therefore recommend reading this book last (as I happened to do just by chance).
Overall a nice novel, but probably not the best "entry point" for someone approaching the series for the first time: the events described are not essential to the understanding or the enjoyment of the following ones, while on the other hand I'm afraid it would be hard to feel any kind of attachment to the main character, as portrayed in this book, unless you've already learnt to appreciate him and his psychology in the later novels.
Furthermore, many details so wonderfully described in The Voyage (the ship's layout, its technology, the principles of warp drive and spaceship's warfare) are here, in comparison, only marginally sketched.
I would therefore recommend reading this book last (as I happened to do just by chance).
May 23, 2013
What started off mediocre and developed into a decent novel with some characters that were starting to go somewhere... and then the end came much too quickly and abruptly. I must say that I really felt the influence of the 1960s and early 1970s in the science fiction aspects and the overall pacing of the story. Or maybe I've just been watching a lot of Star Trek (TOS) while reading this. It seemed like very much a product of its time, with some of the characterization likely a nod towards active duty military personnel involved in Vietnam. I just wish it hadn't ended so quickly.
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