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Title: Sex Instead of a Story
Review: It looks like I'm not in the majority here, but I'll say it anyway. Both the newest "New Frontier" books-- Fire on High and Martyr-- are written more like Peyton Place (or Party of Five for younger folks) than a good Star Trek novel.If you like sex scenes and want to know who's sleeping with who or carrying who's baby (believe me it gets confusing in Fire on High), then by all means read this book. But these scenes took over the book in my opinion and any sort of Star Trek story or message was added, it seemed, as an after thought.These latest efforts in the New Frontier series do not deepen and expand the understanding of the Star Trek universe, they merely move it into pulp fiction. Where are we exposed to new scientific theories? Where is the interesting plot with twists and turns? There is no depth to any background explanations of the new species encountered here.Sorry, but I don't like this new direction.David Hess
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