Reviews

Space trains.

Those two words compelled me to pick up a secondhand copy of Night Train to Rigel by Timothy Zahn. At the time I’d just moved to Sydney with my wife — we were house hunting, I was searching for a co-working space and adjusting to a new life in a new city. I suppose, to help me deal with all the stress, I was looking for a fun read… 300 pages of entertaining escapism.

Enter the first entry in Mr Zahn’s Quadrail series.

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Following up from two popular and successful Voyager novels, author Kirsten Beyer is back with her third post-Destiny Voyager instalment. Children Of The Storm takes place concurrently with the previous novel, Unworthy. Can Beyer score a hat-trick with book #3?

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William T. Riker and the diverse crew of the U.S.S. Titan are back, this time in the hands of British author James Swallow. Following on from the lackluster Over A Torrent Sea (by Christopher L Bennet), I was hoping that Mr. Swallow could inject some fun and action into this spinoff book series. Did he succeed?

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There is something to be said for getting back to the status quo. Namely, putting the Voyager crew back into their original seats… more or less. With Full Circle, author Kirsten Beyer sent the U.S.S. Starship Voyager hurtling back to the Delta Quadrant, thanks to some mean and lean slipstream technology. But the crew were still fractured, physically and emotionally — what will it take to bring Starfleet’s finest back to the adventure?

Books don’t get much bigger than Asimov’s Foundation. Awarded “Best All-Time Series” in 1966, Foundation was a trailblazer — some say it even invented the space opera genre. Needless to say, it’s difficult not to have high expectations.

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After seven long years stranded in the Delta Quadrant, Janeway brought her crew back to the little blue planet she, and so many of her crew, called home. And cut. Draw the curtains and clean the stage. Voyager is home. Of course, all good Trek geeks turn to the books to continue the events once the show ends. Thus, Voyager’s relaunch is here, and veteran author Christie Golden is in charge.