Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uscvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!uscvax!tli From: tli@uscvax.UUCP (Tony Li) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Book Review: Uhura's Song Message-ID: <1411@uscvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 19:35:09 EST Article-I.D.: uscvax.1411 Posted: Sun Jan 13 19:35:09 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 21:14:59 EST Distribution: net Organization: CS&CE Depts, U.S.C., Los Angeles, CA Lines: 34 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 ;-) -- Tony Li ;-) Usc Computer Science Uucp: {sdcrdcf,randvax}!uscvax!tli Csnet: tli@usc-cse.csnet Arpa: tli@usc-ecl