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Title: Tedious. Graf has done better
Review: Sorry, but I thought that this one was tedious, predictable, and relatively hard to follow. Plus, it just did not impart that "sense of wonder" that characterize the best Star Trek stories. Basically, Chekov, Uhura, and McCoy beam down to a planet which has a strange ecology undergoing an ice age. Just about everything about this planet is unhelpful--the transporter won't work, sensors from the Enterprise don't work, phasers work poorly and some stupid decisions deprive the Landing Party of phasers anyway. Plus, some fairly obvious problems cause most humans to go insane after a brief stay on the planet. All of this is very apparent from the first portion of the novel, and it makes the ending relatively predictable.This novel was not particularly absorbing, and I was glad when I reached the relatively predictable ending. There are better Star Trek novels out there.
