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From: tli@uscvax.UUCP (Tony Li)
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Subject: Book Review: Uhura's Song
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Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 19:35:09 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 13 19:35:09 1985
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				UHURA'S SONG
	    		       by Janet Kagan
			Pocket Science Fiction #21
			    Published: Jan 1985

Micro-review:  Yeah!  Pretty good!

Non-spoiler review:  

Well, Janet Kagan is to be commended.  She's done a very good job.  UHURA'S
SONG is definitely one of the better Star Trek novels.  The plot is a little
bit hokey.  The Enterprise is called to the planet EEiauo (What a name!) to
help cure a deadly disease there.  The inhabitants are large, sentinent
cats, one of whom knows Lt. Uhura.  Of course, McCoy beams down to
investigate the disease.  In doing so, he and his med-team expose themselves
to the disease and do contract it, though they don't notice for a while
since the incubation period is pretty long.  Anyhow, McCoy doesn't manage to
come up with a solution to the disease.

All in all, I think I really enjoyed the book.  It does have its faults, but
Kagan does do a good job of creating a setting and keeping us interested.
She also does an excellent job at creating the interplay between the
characters.  She does succumb to the obvious trap of painting herself as the
heroine extrodinaire, but I guess that's forgivable.  Anyhow, the book did
do the job.  It kept me quite interested and entertained for all 373 pages.

Live long and prosper,
Tony ;-)
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