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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780743444125 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 0743444124 Label: Star Trek Manufacturer: Star Trek Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 464 Publication Date: March 04, 2002 Publisher: Star Trek Studio: Star Trek Related Items:
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 Rating: - Superb addition to the seriesBook one ends on a cliffhanger, and this picks up straight away. Although the story concerns the USS Defiant (later shown in Enteprise to be in the Mirror Universe), the door is left open to tie that back into canon. Which is a testament to how good the writing in this book is. The book continues to evolve and deepen the characters, without revealing all their secrets in one go. And the way the relationships are handled is quite good, as with each new story, a little bit more is thrown into the mix - akin to the development shown on DS9 when it took on a more serial feel. All the stories in this collection are good, with a story filling in the gap between Avatar and Abyss in the DS9 relaunch, and an extra long story devoted to Sonya Gomez, interestingly from a first person/log entry perspective. Excellent continuation of the series. Rating: - More great S.C.E. stories that move beyond technobabbleThe second compilation of the Star Trek: S.C.E. (Starfleet Corps of Engineers) e-books, called Miracle Workers, collects books 5-8 of the continuing series, and they continue the stellar work that Keith R.A. DeCandido has done editing the series as well as great work from the authors. While I read mine in an e-book version, this is also available in paperback. As the series begins to move forward, we find out even more about some of characters, as well as getting some exciting action as well. In fact, Miracle Workers demonstrates even further that you can get a bunch of Starfleet engineers together and tell interesting stories with them without all of the technobabble Trek is known for. Sure, there's always going to be some, but no more so than any other Trek book. Instead, we have stories such as First Officer Sonya Gomez going through a huge trial by fire that will change her life, or a straight adventure story about salvaging a space station while dealing with a scavenger race that will gladly kill anybody who gets in their way. The writing is excellent, and the stories are only getting better and better. Let's hope that continues to be the case as I move on to the next compilation. Yes, there are a couple of weaknesses ("Cold Fusion" has a couple of problems as well as being very straightforward compared to the books around it, for example), but overall this is a strong compilation. The writing is uniformly excellent (of course, it's full of some Trek staples, though this was actually David Mack's first prose fiction) and the characters are a lot of fun to read about. Don't let the "engineer" part fool you; this series is about the characters, and they're well-done characters too. Give it a try. David Roy  Try searching the Internet for "Miracle Workers: 2 (Star Trek: SCE)" or Ebay for "Miracle Workers: 2 (Star Trek: SCE)". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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