Retaliation

Stargate #2

by Bill McCay

When the hard-won freedom of the Abydan race is threatened by an unsuspected traitor, Major O'Neal and Daniel Jackson face the terrible vengeance of the former overlord's successor

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction, Media Tie In, War, Action, Adventure

300 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Under a variety of pseudonyms as well as his own name, Bill McCay is the author of more than seventy books, including such series as the Race Against Time, The Three Investigators, Young Indiana Jones, and Tom Clancy's Net Force. He has also worked with Stan Lee on Riftworld, a science fiction comedy-adventure set in the comics business. McCay has also written five novels based on the film Stargate. His fantasy short fiction has appeared in several anthologies and his Star Trek novel Chains of Command (cowritten with E. L. Flood) spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

See also William McCay

Reviews

[Oceana2602 · Rating 2 out of 5]

Another Stargate novel - follows the movie, not the book, so it is in my tv-show world view totally AU. I remember it to be rather unremarkable - which means, I don't remember much. Wasn't too bad though, and you know that fans will suffer through mostly anything. (Yes, I did watch all of MacGyver and that horrible movie where RDA plays a killer. See what I mean?)

[John Michael Strubhart · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this installment, Hathor finds a goody and decides to use it. It's interesting. Bill McCay sets up a delightful story, but I personally tend to stumble over his writing at times. Also, he mixes visual with abstract kind of willy-nilly and it breaks the flow of the narrative.
Reader should beware that this is not canon with Stargate SG-1. The Jack in this novel spells his last name with only one l, and he has no sense of humor. There's no Teal'c or jaffa for that matter. You get plenty of Horus guards though. Sam Carter is nowhere to be seen. This novel is based on the motion picture. It's entertaining though. I enjoyed it.
Oh, also, the ending of this novel makes reading the next one an absolute must.
I dare you.

[Uli Kusterer · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting continuation of the Stargate movie (NOT of the TV series) that picks up after Stargate:Rebellion by the same author.

[Dimitris Papastergiou · Rating 1 out of 5]

A chore to read with so much forced shit in it as as much as Supposedly intense scenes with over the top excitement and shock from the characters in the book that makes the whole manga industry jealous.

Not fun.

A chore to read with a plot that basically makes you read it because you love the 2 main characters and there's pretty much no development or anything in significance happening.

Wouldn't recommend it even if you're a SG fan.

[Travis Ellison · Rating 2 out of 5]

This diverges significantly from the tv show but that made it more interesting to me. Some of the plot twists were easy to see coming and the urge to yell at Daniel for making bad decisions was strong which means to me that I was drawn into and cared about the characters. I liked the realism of what it looks like for a military to try and win the hearts and minds of an indigenous population. It never works.

[Teresa Johnson · Rating 2 out of 5]

As a huge fan of Stargate I did not like this book. The story was OK, but the events did not agree with the series. To be fair it was written before the series. The words used made it hard to read as they did not match even the movie. For instance Abydan instead of Abydonian.

[Cash'Lion Elud'Ox · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a slow start before it got to the action packs. So for that I took a star away. but eitherwise it was excellent and adventurous! I'm ready to look for the next book to the series, Retribution!

To anyone else, I do recommend this StarGate series. It is based of the original concept of the StarGate movie created by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich. MGM version rights is excellent in their own directional value, but Bill McCay wrote the StarGate novels 2-6, in the direction Dean and Roland had in mind. both awesome, both great!

[Tim · Rating 3 out of 5]

The follow-up was pretty weak. Not boring, just almost no plot and no character arc. And all things considered it didn't even have the appeal of the TV series. When a book can't match a 60 minute TV show it is struggling. I don't plan on pursuing the next title in this series any time soon.