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| View Larger Image | Death of a Neutron Star (Star Trek Voyager, No 17) | Paperbackby Eric Kotani (Author)
| List Price: | $6.50 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 7 to 13 days |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Star Trek | | Edition: | 1st THUSst Edition | | Page Count: | 288 Pages | | Publication Date: | March 01, 1999 | | Sales Rank: | 1,209,338st |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
An alien scientist asks to join Captain Kathryn Janeway and her crew in the investigation of an unprecedented scientific find. Soon U.S.S. Voyager® is embroiled in a battle of wills among several alien races -- each intent on manipulating the discovery toward its own end and decimating whole worlds in the process.Janeway must stop a quest for knowledge from turning into a plot for destruction! |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 24 reviews)
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Not a bad foray by Curtis Mitchell (Peoria, AZ USA)  4 Stars
July 11, 2005
Death of a Neutron Star isn't a terrible foray into the realm of Voyager. Unfortunately the mostly interesting plot is drowned out in the beginning with some healthy treknobabble and Janeway's strange obsession over some coffee beans they picked up on a planet they stopped at before the book starts.
Now coming off the amazing Seven of Nine (ST:VOY Book#16) Death has a pretty big burdon. Still it is a decent Trek novel and if you get into it develops quite nicely. The author's unique characters were some of the more pleasant, though not necessarily best written, in the Voyager novels.
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Interesting situation by Clannad Yenti (Austin, TX USA) 4 Stars
February 23, 2003
Although not the best ST:VOY book I've read (check out "The Nanotech War" for a great read), the plotline was interesting and suspenseful.The entire book leads up to a final encounter, where Janeway and her team uses innovative and surprising methods to save their ship, their new allies, and perhaps the rest of the galaxy. These types of situations aren't new to any Federation Crew, but Kotani and Smith provide a unique and great conclusion.
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A real page-turner!  5 Stars
December 30, 2002
I couldn't put this book down -- lots of suspense, possible doom if Voyager couldn't use science to solve the problem of a warlike race using the explosion of a neutron star to destroy its enemies. This book was fun from a scientific standpoint, but also, all the familiar folks were there, and their relationships rang true for me (i.e. Janeway and Seven, Janeway and Torres, Janeway and Paris, etc.) I have read several Star Trek books, and this was one of my favorites!
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A decent Star Trek Voyager book! by K. Wyatt (St. Louis, MO United States) 4 Stars
July 19, 2002
While not being one of the best "Voyager" books, this is defintely not among the worst of them. In fact, it was pretty refreshing in that it wasn't the normal "Voyager" book which is typically based on the old "We need food from this planet and the bad guy's won't let us get to it." That said, I rather enjoyed the book, despite what some of the other reviewer's stated about the author focusing too much on Janeway's enjoyment of coffee and the ever present technobabble. Star Trek in and of itself is based a lot in technobabble, no big deal.In my opinion, this was an extremely well done first foray into the Trek world by Eric Kotani. Hopefully we'll see some more trek stories from him in the future. Overall a well done book and I would recommend it to anybody who reads trek. Thank you to author for a good read.
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Im sorry, Eric, but you have not written a good book at all. by Josh (USA)  1 Stars
March 24, 2001
Most of the Voyager books that I've read have been quite good--especially the ones by Christie Golden. She can really write. However, Death of a Neutron Star was anything but exciting. Eric Kotani's writing style was adolescent. Despite what others may say, I felt like I was reading a story that I might have written in sixth grade! The characters were not developed, though they blandly followed their early series-established outlines. The plot was dull, and every single event could be easily predicted. If you want to read a good STV book, read one by Ms. Golden, but for god's sake, don't spend a penny on this peice of junk!
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