So where do I start? How about with Bobby Sherman. By reputation it is considered one of the very best of the early novels and I have looked forward to reading it one day. This was the 23rd novel in the original Pocket Books paperback series of Star Trek novels. The overall result is somewhat different from most other Star Trek novels, yet it is that difference which makes it such a fresh and enjoyable read. There's also an underlying joke in her use of the series that proved rather clever once I understood what it was, and which highlighted the amount of work she put into realizing it. To be honest I'm not a fan of such a conceit (and her insertion of thinly-veiled characters and references from other television shows and sci-fi franchises didn't help), but Hambly makes it work here, thanks to the strength of her characterization and her storytelling skills. Unlike the others set in the Star Trek universe, Hambly situates many of the events in a different fictional world, that of the ABC television show Here Come the Brides which ran for two seasons in the late 1960s. And on Earth in 1867, a frontier businessman encounters an amnesiac stranger in the woods - one with pointed ears and green blood coming from his wounds.īarbara Hambly's book is unique among the many novels in the Star Trek Pocket Book series. As they follow it into the Tau Eridani Cloud, the Klingon ship suddenly vanishes. During a layover at Starbase Twelve the Enterprise crew investigates suspicious activity surrounding a Klingon ore freighter which seems to be more than it appears.

Ishmael by Barbara Hambly