The Shroud needs a special mineral so Hoole,tash,and zak pull into the nearest planet...Ithor.But they dont have that mineral.But a miner named hodge does.But hodge wants them to explore a cave he found for the mineral.So they go down there,sounds like a fair trade right?WRONG.There is a evil thing in that cave.A thing called...Spore!

What is "Spore?" It's something beyond your imagination! When I read this, I couldn't believe what I was reading--I had never thought of something like "Spore." When you read about this, you'll probably be just as shocked as I was. This book is full of surprises. I would recommend this book for children under 11 years old, simply because older kids might be slightly bored by it, although this book has few flaws.

This was a very odd book. The characters were interesting, and they did interesting things, but they bore almost no resemblance to the characters we watched on TV for seven years. For example, Riker eats a strange Klingon dish and gets sick from it, as he had been warned. He wouldn't have done that, as he would have known better. Worf throwing popcorn at a movie screen? Puh-leeze. I think this author (whose storyline was excellent) should get a better handle on the characters before trying to write another Trek novel.

Debtors Planet is a good story involving a certain Mr Offenhouse(remember the episode in which the Enterprise found a space capsule with several frozen people from the 20th century on it?) who has now found he has a knack for dealing with the Ferengi.

A planet has progressed exceddingly fast in it's technology, raising concerns with the federation and so the Enterprise is dispatched with Ambassador Offenhouse as Ferengi presence has been detected. The author did a good job of fleshing out this charachter who was only a one timer in the series.

The plot thickens into a prety good story as the investigation moves on. A few cavets; Worf, Dianna Troi, and Riker aren't portraied well in many places in the story. Secondly, the author takes a bit too much travel into explaining past episodes, many of which don't have much to do with the story at all(i.e. Wesley Crushers incident at Starfleet Academy). Thirdly, some sections of the book read like a conversation which may have been taken from a physics or Astronomy textbook, but then there are glaring errors in some aspects of Astronomy and scientific areas. Because of these reasons I can't really give this book four stars, but don't let that stop you from reading this enjoyable TNG novel.

Another pretty good Trek novel. We have a planet being overrun by Ferengi, who have enslaved the Megarans, in order to industrialize a once primative society into building starships. Ambassador Offenhouse is sent by the Federation, aboard the Enterprise, to resolve this situation. We find out that Offenhouse was a businessman from the 20th century, who was frozen after death, then apparently thawed out after finding a cure. Thompson never got into explaining this. Some of the Eugenics War was brought up where Offenhouse lost his son.

Meanwhile, Offenhouse uses his financier wit to tick off the Ferengi. An away team beams down to find out what is going on, then are attacked by the Megarans, or so they thought. Enter the Cardassians, who are the real string pullers on this planet.

Of course, Worf gets involved as does most of the main crew of the Enterprise to figure out what is going on. The Cardassians are discovered by an Ensign, who is an insectoid, resembling a bee! The Cardassians use the Ferengi and try to ambush the Enterprise in orbit.

All in all, this book had action and humor mixed in. All of the main crew gets involved at some point. The only gripe I had was the way the book ended. It seemed to just stop all of a sudden, and leaves you wondering what else was going to happen.

This pickes up only minutes after book one concludes. I was glad to have it on hand to finish a very suspensfull cliffhanger. This trillogy, however, seemes to suffer from 'Trillogy Syndrome'(seems many do) in that it starts with a bang, and then fizzles out in the second and third books. There's a "sneak preview" of a chapter of book three at the end of this book, and just from that little bit seems to be streching it out for all it's worth, but losing momentum.

There are some great scenes with the Klingons, in fact, I belive the best part of the book is how Dr Braums, as captain of the Klingon vessle Hos, interacts with her crew, and the heroic actions of the Klingons she serves with.

Genisis Wave also gives more detail about the horror of what they're up against.....and how they are able to launch such an incredible attack when they've hardly been heard of previously. Some conflict is also given when they show a more spiritual side of these creatures.

Also, it's important to note that the charachterising isn't really up to par, and it seems Captain Picard and Dianna Troi both have some flatness, and speak in a way that just doesn't seem to fit thier personalities. Dianna does have a very important heroic part in all this though. On a good note, Geordi is more thoroughly explored, and Data saves the day as he is the only one immune to the effect of the creatures.

Worth it to finish the trillogy, I'll be reading the next book ASAP as well. A good, albiet not great story.

3.5 STARS
The first book in this series was one of the better Star Trek Books I had read, so I had no hesitation is continuing on with book #2 of, "The Genesis Wave". Like many initial installments of a multiple part story the first had an abrupt ending that definitely was a catalyst for searching out the next portion of the tale. The second book left me confused for it appears to end the tale completely yet there is a third book to the series. I suppose that many books can be continued but this second book ended with such finality that I don't know if I will pursue the third.

This book does resolve the beings that are behind the release of the Genesis Wave and they encompass a variety of alien life-form characteristics together with what amounts to the most extreme form of biological warfare. If there have been beings as extremely genocidal as those portrayed in book #2, I do not remember them.

The resolutions presented for the various storylines vary in how clever they are, ranging from the predictable to the disappointing. Taken as a pair of books the story is worthwhile with the first of the two being much stronger. I have no idea how they will transition this to the third installment, and it may be awhile before I find out.

The Genesis Wave, a mutated form of Dr. Carol Marcus's long believed buried Genesis Project, has washed over the planet Myrmidon, transforming it into a primordial horror. The Romulan phase shifting technology may have worked, sparing the lives of tens of thousands inhabitants, but the survivors are now intruders on a world not meant for them, and they are not alone. The creature behind the Neptune's pre-Wave assault on the Myrmidon shields infiltrates and attempts to hijack the Enterprise. Meanwhile Dr. Leah Brahms and her crew of Klingons try to track down the home of the genocidal aliens to avenge those that have died.

The first book of the series had everybody discovering the Wave and then running from it for their very lives while trying to figure out a way to stop it, or at least survive it, at the same time. Book Two allows the now haggard Federation forces, and our cast of characters in particular, the chance to fight back and get a few choice jabs at their new enemy. While light on dramatic story, B2 does not skip on the action that fans crave from the series. In the long run a four star rating may seem generous, but I'm grading this strictly on the entertainment curve. Recommended to fans only.

I'm a huge fan of Star Trek, and I will be impressed by almost anywork but this one just didn't go over all that well with me. Sure the writer uses extremely descriptive language and draws you in at some points, but the story line gets very redundant at many points. Sometimes you just want to get up and scream "GET TO THE POINT ALREADY" when reading this book. Bottom Line, if you're a speedy reader and can plow through a book in one sitting you should definenlty pick this one up, casual readers might want to look into more of Peter David's work.

Star Trek-The Next Generation: Dragon's Honor written by Kij Johnson and Greg Cox is a who-done-it complete with mystery and intrigue as Captain Jean-Luc and the Enterprise crew battle an alien armada and are at an exotic Dragon Empire ready to join the United Federation of Planets.

What I liked about this book is the mystery as you try to guess who-done-it with the clues furnished by the author as you read on in the book. There is a wedding between to old foes with mistrust running rampid and this "Royal Wedding" is entrusted for its security on Picard and the Enterprise crew. I like how the fleshing out of the characters in this story were written.

This is a well-written book the will keep you on the edge of your seat. Without the wedding there can be no peace and the treaty with the Federation would never happen... but this isn't all... there is some really bad guys that would stop at nothing to see that peace never happends. Thus, this vicious race plans assassination to all out invasion, just to keep the Empire from joining the Federation and this is where you'll read about Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his formidable skill as a negotiater.

There is action and advenure in the book along with the mystery and intrigue that will keep you reading till the end of the book. This is a classic Picard saves the day book.

I have to give this book four stars because : 1) I like alien races. 2) I enjoy books that deal with Asia and this book has the 'Dragon Empire', who seem to have a society based on early China. 3) It also has a mystery and I love trying to figure out things before the characters in the book.

It starts out with action and has enough to keep you going to the end.

While John Benson was a pioneer - along with Glenn Waggoner - in perpetrating the growth of Fantasy Baseball through their publications time, technology, and passion seem to have deserted Mr. Benson in his lackluster coverage of minor league players.

Benson has been completely passed by a number of other products, both online or off. His analysis of minor leaguers is superficial, and his understanding and presentation of the material is clearly inferior to people like John Sickels, the Baseball Prospectus team, and Ron Shandler. This book is indicative of laziness, both in terms of putting together the cursory, ill-researched commentary, and the scope of material presented. For the same price, you can buy a much better book.

I've been a Benson fan for years, but this is the last one of his books I'll be purchasing. There is no single thing in this book that you can't get, often at a higher quality, for free, on the web.

There is absolutely no reason to purchase this book instead of STATS' Minor League Scouting Report. None whatsoever.

Save your money. I wish I did.

This is the finest book on minor leaguers, even if you are not a rotisserie player. The book is like having all of the teams' organizational grids and analyses all in one place. The amount of research done in such a short time is nothing short of phenomenal. Especially helpful when you go to spring training or when bidding for your rotisserie teams. They detail strengths and weaknesses of so many players that it is incredible. I wonder if my own local team has such a good scouting and research department as John Benson does.

This book was terrible, ther was no exitement or nothin'.

I may be "too old" for this book, but I thought it was great!! Sure, there wasn't much in the way of a story line, but the pop-up pictures were awsome!! Go buy it!!

Proud Helios is one of the better Trek books out there. It lacks any true depth, of course, and posits no new ideas or perspectives. It taxes the brain not at all. It is, however, a fine action story with extremely well-depicted secondary characters, a rarity in most Trek novels. In fact, the secondary characters, including the captain and engineer of the pirate ship Helios and a Cardassian commander forced to kow-tow to Gul Dukat, grab interest before any of the regular DS9 characters do. As for the regulars, after a few dozen pages of hokey introspection about each other, they emerge "true to life", with Kira and Odo in particular showing off their best traits (Kira shooting her mouth off without thinking, and Odo scowling at everything in sight). Scott's effort has earned my interest in other books she has written.

The only serious caveat is to beware the infamous back of the book. The description given by the publisher is misleading; there is no Sisko/Dukat alliance, for example. Moreover, the back gives away a major plot point that does not occur until page 200 or so (in a 270 page book). So, don't read the back of the book, but pick it up, read it, and enjoy it as it is meant to be enjoyed - as mindless, harmless entertainment.

Star Trek books, especially Deep Space Nine books, are usually so exciting I read them in one night, but this book was pretty dumb and boring. The situation wasn't at all suspensefull or thrilling, and the writing style was boring also. Read the Dominion War series, it was great.

Okay, so our lifestyle is quite colorful. I'm insulted that people are so negative. I am in the industry and know that things in her book are quite as they are. She has chosen to market in an area that people generally find an opinion out of ignorance and have know idea what the hell they are talking about. Live and let Live!

Oh come on and lighten up! This was a fun read.Yes, the business has a sordid reputation and Chi Chi does not really hold much back. Yes, he has a very good opinion of himself but why not? I think it was a nice companion to all that I have read about the industry. I've seen Chi Chi perform as well, and if you get a chance to catch her act on the road you won't be disappointed. Buy the book and you won't be disappointed either! I have friends in the industry and they seem to back up that this book is pretty acurate of what it is like to work for Chi Chi. It's a great book! Completely fun for fans and even people who don't particularly like porn (though I doubt you would even be on this page or reading this comment if you were not into porn!).

Follow Chi Chi and find out the inside information: In porn films, what's the best way to shoot an orgy scene? How does big new talent get discovered? Which actors consistently deliver the best "money shots"? What really goes on behind the scenes during a movie shoot? And just exactly how did a full-figure drag queen become one of the most well-known directors in the business? Making It Big tells the classic American rags-to-riches story - with a twist. Larry Paciotti, a young lad from Minnesota traveled to California to become a part of the world he loved with all his heart: gay porn. In record time he made it big, transforming the industry with his polished, steamy movies and transforming himself into the irresistible Chi Chi LaRue. Now, for the first time, he's dishing the dirt, telling true stories that no one will want to fast-forward through. When he makes it big, there's no stopping the irresistible Chi Chi LaRue.

I will not say "If you a true fan, don't read this book", or anything like that, but, to me this book seemed like a rehash of the old "Oh, Sisko's sending a team to destroy a Jem'Hadar base or get a secret weapon to defeat the Dominion." Overall,this novel is pointless. I'll wait (and hope) for a DS9 book by J.M. Dillard where Kai Winn gets possessed by a Pah-wraith, and runs amuck on DS9 (serve her right, too, for dabbling with Pah-wraith occultism).

A good concept for a story that doesn't develop well enough to be thsi short of a book. Basically they spend most of their time hidden and then escape in the nick of time. I wished that this book would've been better, it had the potential to be greater and unfortunately the ideas didn't always live up to the promise of what I think the writers wanted them to.

I really liked this book. It has everything from Changlings to Jem'Hadar to religious riots. However, Jem'Hadar don't sleep and Changelings don't have names. If you can ignore this you will have a lot of fun reading it, though.

In this Star Trek work based on a video game the main character receives the ability to go into a PAIN TRANCE. The idea being that when you are in this trance, you pass out and escape any pain the body may receive. Oh how I wished for this ability while the work was inflicted on me. The hapless stringing together of sections of the video game with a narration attempts to make this into a fluid work. It fails in amazing fashion. The video game roots are so obvious it is painful to listen too. The main charter dies over and over (much like you must during the game) and is set back on a boring path that makes no sense whatsoever. Even poor Q seems bored by the whole thing. Avoid.

To say the least, this is an interesting way to spend an hour or so on the highway. As the other reviewers have stated, it seems more like a video game. The main character gets himself waxed, Q come's in, complain's and runs him back to just before he screwed up. A decent plot, that get's caught up in the spirit of being a video game, which makes it somewhat tedious. John DeLancie and the other readers do a pretty good job with what was given to them though.

Should be the next Star Trek movie