Interested in finding out which sci-fi TV shows were considered the best and worst ever back in the days before Star Trek: The Next Generation, The X-Files, and Babylon 5 hit the scene? Well then, this particular tome could very well be what'cher lookin' for! Listed for your reading pleasure are the Top 15 (Star Trek grabs the top spot, followed by The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, etc.) and The Worst 10 sci-fi shows (the worst being Space: 1999 according to this book, as well as Lost In Space, Galactica 1980, and The Powers of Matthew Star) ever to air on the boob tube before 1987. If you're lookin' for a more up-to-date Top/Worst Ten listing, however, you might wanna go somewhere else...

Also covered in some detail:
- various notable British sci-fi shows (UFO, The Invisible Man),
- live-action & animated series from Japan (Johnny Sokko & His Giant Robot, Robotech),
- the era of super-marionation (SuperCar, Thunderbirds, Stingray, et. al.),
- cult anthologies (One Step Beyond, Night Gallery),
- golden age shows (Space Patrol, Tom Corbett: Space Cadet, etc.)

Also included in the last couple pages are mailing addresses to various New York- & California-based comics & collectibles shops and several fan club PO boxes that may or may not still exist. 'Course, nowadays these outfits would have their e-mail addresses included alongside its 'brick-and-mortar' counterpart. Which shows ya just how far we've come technologically in the interim...

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This is a must purchase for a minor league player, scouts, team owners and staff to see where the talent is and general prospects for the future. However, by know means should this book be confused with first hand knowledge of the individual players named as top prospects or others not listed. It just doesn't go far enough to establish objective means for rating players. But it is probably the best source for such information that is available.

Interesting stories as the Ship revisits colony planets along its sweep of the Arm of Stars. The automated Ship is developing more humanity as the story proceeds, but we don't get to see that fully develop.

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An academic, though interesting look at the opinions of various viewers in regards to the world's two most famous sci-fi television shows, Doctor Who and Star Trek. The Doctor Who section explores viewer reactions to (if I'm not mistaken) the Jon Pertwee story "The Monster of Peladon", an odd choice as it is not generally considered one of the more popular Doctor Who adventures. The story was chosen for analysis as it features strong social and political commentary, including the subjects of worker's rights, unionization, and women's liberation. As the book is a scholarly look at the average science-fiction viewer, it tends to be somewhat dry and difficult to follow at times. Overall an interesting oddity, though probably not for the average reader.

In this book, although the characterizations are not too far off the mark from those established for the characters, much is sacrificed in order to fit a classic murder mystery plot. One must accept, for instance, that it is possible to fire a phaser on board the Enterprise without the computer being immediately aware of the occurrence, and signalling security; that it is, in fact, possible for a member of the ship's complement to replicate a loaded phaser without clearance or any record of the transaction, that there is no high-tech way to establish the identity of the person who fired the phaser, or even whether a particular phaser was the one fired at a particular time, and many other very dubious propositions.

Still, the book is well-written, and if you enjoy detective and mystery fiction as well as Star Trek-style space opera, it should provide an enjoyable read. It uses a very Agatha Christie-esque method of maintaining suspense and uncertainty as to the question of "whodunnit" by making almost all of the non-regular characters behave suspiciously at one point or another.

Not really my style, but well done if you like that sort of thing.

Though the story itself is juvenile, it proves to be very interesting to children of a young age. This book was especially useful to coerce my niece into reading, and she found the book very interesting.

I must say, this is one of the worse Star Trek books I have ever read. The plot seemed to be good, but the way it was written it could not keep my interest/attention. After reading over 50 Star Trek books, I would say skip this one, as it's not worth getting it.

Some parts were good, some were rather boring. The kids were kind of funny, but it's kind of unbelievable that that girl could get away with pretending she was a boy for so long, and would do it just so she wouldn't have to wear dresses. The plot was okay, but very predictable. And if Cedara was sighning to Dejana behind the back of whoever she was talking to, you would think someone else in the room would notice. Very good for a plot having to do with something lost and mystical from Bajoran sacred text believed to really exist.

This was a good mix of science fiction, in which science combats the odds, and fantasy in which a child is sought and found to save a world. The writer must have made some study of refugee camps to give such a lively impression, and she sure has a way of looking at people that is revealing and kind at the same time.

There were some uncomfortable points in which the story comes to a virtual stand still, and then restarts again, that's why I can't give the 5 points I had in mind "It does not matter we cannot live to taste the fruit; still we must plant the trees"

Well it is clear that this concept has long since run out of steam with this the fourth, and easily the weakest of the series. It boggles the mind that the garbage that is in this collection could be the best of the "hundreds" of submissions. In fact many of the stories in this collection are either pointless drivel or obvious plagarism from original scripts. (* I can't help wonder what the original writers of the shows must think when they see their ideas trashed by well meaning but misguided fans !) Of course much of the blame must be directed at the editors who choose the works that go into these books, as it was their job to assemble original, exciting and worthwhile contributions. Unfortunately this collection has few worthy efforts and as for a fifth book, well I think they should quit now, before they do any more damage to the Star Trek legend.

This is the fourth installment of the Strange New Worlds series highlighting new talent writing the the genre of TREK. Talented fans submit short stories written for a contest for publication.

In the past, we saw some exceptional talent and originality, storylines that took you to areas of TREK that only short stories could. This anthology was engaging but fell a tad short of the prevoius three. I'm sure the fans have not lost interest, but I'm wondering if the editor has or maybe his direction and view of the TREK universe has been skewed.

There are 22 short stories contained in the anthology that continue in the different genre of the TREK series. I found that these stories to be good and thoughtfully written. Entertaining to a degree but a spark missing.

I wouldn't pass this volume up though as it will show the maturing process of some very promissing writers... future of TREK is in these pages a little recondite, but emerging nonetheless.

If you ever wanted to grow up to write Star Trek books or movies-- get this book. I must disagree with most of the other reviews-- this book IS worth having for any Trek fan. (For non-fans you probably won't be interested.)

I will agree on the point that this book is not as strong as the first three, but that it is only off by a little. However, to say that the stories were not as strong, or somehow less than the other three is not true.

You will enjoy at least one story from each section, The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager for sure. For die hard fans you get to read stories by other fans! For would-be writers, actors or producers, the series shows you how 20+ people with no publishing experience can write a story and get it published.

Bottom Line: Its worth the paperback price and more.

I truly enjoyed the first two books in the Genesis Wave series. However, Book 3 was a HUGE dissapointment, so I hope it is a wave goodbye for this series. The main TNG characters are relegated to minor and infrequent roles. The various settings are not tied together well at all and the linkage to the two previous books is quite. There's also a linkage to the Gemworld series which comes into play with a very weak rationale for how they realized there was a tie in (and if you didnt read Gemworld you wouldnt understand it at all). Also, Picard is too easily duped by the Romulans for the strong character he is usually portrayed as. Certainly do not buy this book in the full price hardcover, find the softcover version or find the hardcover on a clearance table.

The first two books in this series were very good. Admittedly, it was unnecessary to write two books when it could have been done as a thick hardcover, but such is life. The first two books were marked by an inventive plot, a well-rounded cast of characters, and a decent conclusion. I read both in hardcover, then bought them in paperback. I didn't get the chance to read this before purchase, so I was caught unawares by this terrible book.

The third book was nowhere near as good as the first two. The plot was derivate, slow, and pointless. The regular characters were noticably out of character, and the characters written for this book were two-dimensional and unsympathetic. Picard especially made me wince, but Yorka was a close second for Least Believable. The ending was possibly one of the least satisfying conclusions I've ever read. It was the first time I was ever tempted to throw a book against a wall. No ending should solve the problem, kill the antagonists, and make everyone in the universe feel good in two pages.

I expected much better from John Vornholt. If you liked The Genesis Wave I and II, then you might also like Gemworld One and Two, by the same author. You might also look for a Deep Space Nine trilogy called Millenium, which is possibly the best Star Trek I have ever read. If you really want to read Book Three out of completeness, check it out from the library, but you'll be disappointed.

Why add on a completely needless epilogue to a perfectly good two book arc? I knew this installment was in trouble when, strictly for the sake of starting a new storyline, the sole survivor of the genocidal aliens of the first two books does something utterly out of character. She (do weeds even have a gender?) gives a portable Genesis device to a Bajoran priest. Why? Don't ask me. But the stench of Flop Sweat rolls off the pages in waves. Things briefly look up in the second chapter when the crew of the Enterprise investigate a derelict ship, only to confront Lovecraftian horrors lurking within it. Then it all falls apart again, with Vornholt stumbling between the uninteresting chase for the Genesis Suitcase and the Enterprise crew facing the space/time rift and the horrors it births. Neither storyline compliments the other, in fact it feels too much like two different novels cut and pasted together. Even more depressing is how foolishly the crew behaves this time out. You would think the Moss Creatures of Books One and Two would not need mind controlling spores with a group this dense. The idea that whole planets are defended by these dolts is more terrifying than the monsters crawling out of the rift. I cannot even recommend this tired entry to the die hard Trek fans.