Adventures In Time and Space: Star Trek

by Mary P. Taylor

Stardate 1999. To commemorate twenty years of thrilling Star Trek novels, Pocket Books is proud to present a one-of-a-kind tribute volume highlighting the most unforgettable moments from a generation of bold explorations by some of the most imaginative science fiction authors of our time!
Selected by an expert Star Trek fan, Star Adventures In Time and Space contains page after page of terrific Star Trek moments. Over the course of two decades, Pocket Books has published hundreds of fantastic adventures set in the astounding universes of Star Trek, Star The Next Generation®, Star Deep Space Nine®, and Star Voyager®. Here is the crème de la crème of Starfleet's literary the most dramatic confrontations, the strangest aliens, the most deadly perils that ever tested Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway, and their valiant crews.
Journey backwards through time to sample the best the future has to offer!
SPECIAL BONUS The Star Trek Novel Chronology, showing where each book falls in the grand Star Trek saga -- because readers demanded it!

Genres: Star Trek, Science Fiction, Star Trek Voyager, Star Trek The Next Generation

608 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1999

About the author

Mary P. Taylor is a trial attorney in Chicago, Illinois, who finds the give and take of the courtroom endlessly exciting and fascinating. A lifelong reader of science fiction and fantasy (as well as anything else she could get her hands on), Ms. Taylor fell in love with Star Trek when it first aired on NBS in 1966. Written Star Trek seemed a logical development to her, and she has read every Star Trek novel ever printed and has published reviews online and for Star Trek fan club newsletters. She lives in the Chicago area with her three beloved cats in a house filled with books, computer parts, cat toys and a few too many Beanie Babies.

Reviews

[Reuben Herfindahl · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got this when it came out and it's been a sporadic read since then.

I adore the golden era of Star Trek books (say 1982-1996). And this was edited by a FAN. It's gotten boxed away for years, with a dog-eared page marking my place, and sidetracked by me re-reading the books talked about again.

But I finally finished it. Hands down the longest I've ever taken to read a book, but not for bad reasons.

But still, I've been reading this book for almost TWENTY YEARS. It's longer than I've been married and hell, longer than this century.

Anyway, a nice overview of the Pocket Books Star Trek universe from when it still existed and was readable. My notable objections mirror my ones of the series as a whole. Voyager books are as unreadable as the TV series was unwatchable, the original series books were as a whole better than the TNG ones and the DS9 books... well they were far more hit and miss than the series was.

[Anthony Zappia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've never read any of the Star Trek novels. For me it was always about the shows. But having read this book, which takes excerpts from many of the better known novels, it's certainly making me re-consider. Some of the excerpts in this collection aren't that great. Is that a reflection on the novels they come from or the author (Mary Taylor) having chosen the wrong section from the novel? A case in point is the excerpt from "Memory Prime, by Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens. I couldn't make head or tail what was going on. Not a great read. However aside from that example there were numerous excerpts that were great. Some of the most moving I think were "Imzadi", "The Kobayashi Maru" and "Sarek". And some of the most tantalizing ones included "The Romulan Prize" and "Objective Bajor". All in all, a good selection by Mary Taylor. And she tops the book off with a chronology of the novels, showing where each novel falls into the overall Star Trek saga.

[Frank Davis · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is an OK book if you want to get a taste of books prior to the date of this book's publishing.

It has excerpts from various books with interesting lead-ins to small bit from another book. So if you want to get an idea of what Trek books are like then this is a good starting point for the older books.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

a good look at trek thought the lens of its novels