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From: samson@h-sc1.UUCP (gregory samson)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: "Killing Time"
Message-ID: <670@h-sc1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 17:50:41 EST
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In article <388@sesame.UUCP> slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner) writes:
>> 	I just finished reading "Killing Time" and "Dwellers of the Crucible".
>> Both are fairly decent, though a little rough around the edges. 
>
>
>Are you kidding??  While I never did figure out why "Killing Time" was 
>recalled, I with they had recalled "Dwellers...".  There was no plot, it
>was much more lurid that Killing Time, and generally had little or no
>redeeming value.  Of the many ST books I have read, it is by far the worst.
>(I would almost make it the worst book that I have ever read, period!)

I don't know about that.  I sort of liked it, since it was in the class
of books that I usually call "K&S Don't Get To Kill Everything And Save
The Day" (gee, sort of long... I'll condense it.  Later.)

Also, about the luridity; that's something that's been missing entirely
from just about ALL Star Trek novels.  Now, what do we want, Harlequin
Romance suggestiveness or realism?  (Granted, some might be offended by
realism...)  And what about violence?  Why doesn't McIntyre's "The
Entropy Effect" get censured because of its graphic depictions of violence?
And "Dwellers" isn't even that graphic!

(To preven confusion... I loved "The Entropy Effect.")

What I wonder how people get away with is stuff like "Devil World" or "The
Klingon Gambit" (explain that title and win a prize)...

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