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David R. George's Crucible Trilogy explores the legacy of one pivotal, crucial moment in the lives of the men at the heart of Star Trek - what led them to it, and to each other, and how their destinies were intertwined. For Doctor Leonard McCoy, life takes two paradoxically divergent paths. In one, displaced in time, he saves a woman from dying in a traffice accident, and in doing so alters Earth's history. Stranded in the past, he struggles to find a way back to his own century. But living an existence he was not meant to, he will eventually have to move on, and ultimately face the shadows born of his lost life. In the other, he is prevented from saving the woman's life, allowing Earth's history to remain unchanged. Returning to the present, he is nonetheless haunted by the echoes of an existence he never lived, and by fears which will bring him full circle to the shadows he never faced.
- Sales Rank: #913459 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Pocket Books/Star Trek
- Published on: 2006-08-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.05" h x 4.24" w x 6.76" l,
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 640 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
About the Author
DAVID R. GEORGE III wrote the Crucible trilogy for Star Trek's 40th anniversary as well as Olympus Descending for Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume Three. He previously visited DS9 in the novels The 34th Rule, set during the timeframe of the series, and in Twilight, set after the finale. His other Star Trek contributions include a first season Voyager episode, "Prime Factors," and one of the Lost Era books, Serpents Among the Ruins, which hit the New York Times bestseller list in Fall, 2003. Currently he is writing a novella for Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light, coming in December, 2010, from Gallery Books.
In his almost nonexistent spare time, David enjoys trying his hand at new experiences, from skydiving to auditioning--with his lovely wife, Karen--for "The New Newlywed Game", from hiking a glacier in Alaska to belly dancing in Tunisia, from ocean kayaking in Mexico to having dinner at an actual captain's table somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Recently, he performed his first wedding ceremony--which he and Karen also wrote--marrying their friends Jen and Ryan Van Riper. David believes that the world is a wide, wondrous place, with exciting adventures waiting around just about every corner.
He remains free on his own recognizance.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Of Two Minds
By S. D. Wright
I'm of two minds with this book. On the one hand, I love the prose. It's a beautifully written, richly detailed character study of Leonard McCoy. I can see where some folks might complain about the wordiness of it (I read it on Kindle, so don't have a sense of the sheer HEFT of the physical novel), but it's nice to have a Trek book that isn't just A to B to C. Some of the descriptive passages were just lovely, especially in the first half of the book, as McCoy struggles to take in and understand life in the early 20th century. I liked the characters in the small South Carolina town, and I could see in my mind's eye the gradual assimilation of this 23rd century doctor who eventually realizes he's not going home.
On the other hand, the "future" parts of the story were kind of disjointed and, well, dull. It felt like a Trek survey course. I found myself skimming the 23rd century parts until I could get back to the other universe. I kept waiting for something to happen to dovetail the two universes, to give it some point. But it never did. And, frankly, I just wanted stuck-in-the-past McCoy to find some freaking happiness. So the end of that universe's story was more than a little disappointing.
***mild spoilers ahead***
There were things I just didn't get, even though I went back and re-read carefully. Like, why were Natira and Lynn described as doubles for each other? Why didn't 20th century McCoy come down with that fatal disease that 23rd century McCoy did in For the World is Hollow...? Why was McCoy so disturbed, really all of a sudden, about the prospect of an early death - so much so that he could remember events that happened in another reality? (And a really minor one: why didn't Spock go to McCoy's wedding?) I felt like there were plot points that maybe were covered in other books that weren't explained in this novel, yet other plots were mentioned over and over again even though they happened on-screen.
Especially in the "future" portion, there were so many characters and situations introduced and referred to that just...never went anywhere. For example, how many pages were devoted to the M'Benga numbers and the chronometric particles - leading me to believe that it would have something to do with past-McCoy - yet it had absolutely nothing to do with that part of the plot. So by the end of the novel, I was thinking, Well, I read all that quite carefully so I wouldn't miss any clues, and it didn't matter one bit!
Honestly, I think I would have enjoyed this book better if it had been JUST the alternate reality part, McCoy's struggle to adapt to life in the past. That was compelling.
I can't NOT recommend it, because the 20th century part is almost completely wonderful. But I can't fully recommend it because so much of the 23rd century plot left me with a so what? feeling.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Unquestionably THE best Star Trek book I've ever read.
By James Yanni
And I've probably read over 200 of them. This book starts from the point at which, in the episode "City on the Edge of Forever", Kirk and Spock have to go back into the past to prevent McCoy from inadvertantly changing history. The chapters of this book alternate between following McCoy's life once they return, sometimes filling in details that we never saw during the series but which are eminently plausible given what we do know, and other times detailing events which we recognize in order to give a recognizable time-frame to the story, with other chapters which delineate McCoy's life in the timeline that WOULD have happened (did happen?) had Kirk and Spock not successfully prevented the change in history (before they successfully repaired the change?). It is a delightfully in-depth look at McCoy, not just in one life, but in two.
What's more, it made me THINK. (How often does a Star Trek novel manage THAT?) What's more, it made me think about something that wasn't even part of the story: what if, in the altered timeline, it wasn't simply her surviving the traffic accident that caused Edith Keeler to change history? What if, after having saved her life, McCoy became romantically involved with her, and through his long-term association with her, inadvertantly, gave her enough emotional support to enable her to move beyond small-time, local charity to have the confidence to dare to move in circles that enabled her to become the force behind the peace movement that delayed American entry into the war? If so, then simply removing McCoy from the timeline after he saved her life would have been sufficient to set things right, and Kirk's traumatic decision to let her die in order to save the proper course of history was wholly unneccessary. As it happens, this is NOT the history envisioned by this author, but thinking about the question of what McCoy did during his long stay in the past in the timeline in which Kirk did not put things to right brought this thought to my mind.
It is, perhaps, a sign of a truly successful novel when the story inspires the reader to think "what if" BEYOND the plot of the story itself. Furthermore, the characterizations in this book were handled superbly, the plot(s) were fascinating, the timing/pacing were perfect, and the actual nuts and bolts of the writing -- which is to say, the editing and proofreading -- were flawless or nearly so, MUCH better than in most mass-market paperbacks.
For any fan of the original Star Trek series, to say nothing of any fan of the character McCoy, this book is an absolute must-read. For anyone not actually antagonistic to the Star Trek universe, it would make an excellent and thought-provoking read. And even if you are, generally, hostile to Star Trek and consider anyone who follows it to be a geek, you really ought to consider reading this book; it is, apart from its Star Trek setting, a very well-written and thought-provoking story.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Not the real McCoy
By R. Spottiswood
After reading Olympus Descending in the DS9 Worlds series, I had really high expectations for this book. Not only were they not met, I did not enjoy this book in its own right. The most obvious reason is the tedious nature of how the author does his descriptions. The detail level is mind-boggling. At one point, he spends a paragraph on describing some hay McCoy wipes off his shirt. It reminded me of a Star Trek RPG tip for Narrator's, that they don't have to go into minute detail about the environment, the players have seen it on the show. Someone could have advised this author that all of his readers grew up on Earth, and we know what it looks like around here. On the flip side, the author doesn't go into much detail about about the setting's effect on the characters. When someone enters a room for the first time, everything is about the appearance and little is said of the character's reactions to it. It even shades over to affect the dialogue, which is what David R. George otherwise excels at. For the first two hundred pages, we get bland descriptions of people's emotional stances or reactions, which should have been, and often are, clear from their speech. Thankfully after that the characters talk a lot more, and the book finally becomes truly readable.
However, by that point another problem has become evident. Usually, the only times the characters truly sound like themselves are when the author has lifted the dialogue from the show. (With the exception of Spock. With his minutely detailed descriptions and love of dry sarcasm, the author's book on Spock might be worth reading.) The author looked into McCoy's past, of which the incident that stands out most is his fleeing from a failed marriage into Starfleet. The author took that one event, spun it into a life-long pattern, extrapolated back to childhood events that could have caused it ... and then retrofit McCoy's personality to match that generic psychological profile. McCoy's best traits are his rampant emotionalism, his great compassion and his ability to empathise with people. This McCoy is a hollow man. He cannot bring himself to really care about other people, and because he does not understand himself and refuses to try, he cannot really understand anyone else either.
There isn't much point in reading a book about one character when that character is done wrong. There are actually quite a few times the book is worth reading, but when they feature McCoy, only when the author is treating him as the Star Trek character and not as a walking psych profile. I would not recommend this book for fans of the Original Series in general or McCoy in particular. Also, I have to say that there is evidence that the author intends to treat Kirk the same way he did McCoy, and so after reading this I am quite unlikely to get the third book in this series.
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