Moon Base Alpha Is Poorly Concieved

Bill Snyder wrote in message . ..
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:39:06 GMT, John Schutkeker
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(John Ordover) wrote in
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The first Trek novel
is MISSION TO HORATIUS by Mack Reynolds, published while the show was
still on the air. It was reprinted a few years back. It was part of
a series that included Bonanza novels and Land of the Giants novels
and such.

This sounds like a good read, since Mack Reynolds was much closer to a ral
SF writer than Blish.

If you know Blish only from the Trek novelizations and such, then
you're missing a real bet - he's the author of A CASE OF CONSCIENCE,
for example, one of the most thoughtful SF novels of all.

I also know Blish from his "Cities in Flight" novel, in re variants of
"O'Neill-type" Space Cities. Asimov likewise dealt with it as part of his
"Extraterrestrial Civilizations" work.

--
Leonard C Robinson
"The Historian Remembers, and speculates on what might have been.
"The Visionary Remembers, and speculates on what may yet be."

"John Ordover" wrote in message
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Bill Snyder wrote in message
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:39:06 GMT, John Schutkeker
wrote:

(John Ordover) wrote in
. com:

The first Trek novel
is MISSION TO HORATIUS by Mack Reynolds, published while the show was
still on the air. It was reprinted a few years back. It was part of
a series that included Bonanza novels and Land of the Giants novels
and such.

This sounds like a good read, since Mack Reynolds was much closer to a
ral
SF writer than Blish.

If you know Blish only from the Trek novelizations and such, then
you're missing a real bet - he's the author of A CASE OF CONSCIENCE,
for example, one of the most thoughtful SF novels of all.

His short story "Surface Tension" is worth a read as well.

Karl Johanson