- James T. Kirk (Fictitious character), Fiction, Human-alien encounters, Time travel
In the twenty-first century: United at last after countless years of warfare, humanity turns towards the stars. But when an alien spacecraft crash-lands in the South Pacific bearing visitors from another world - the Vulcans - Earth must decide whether to extend the hand of friendship, or the fist of war...
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Grave, epic, unpretentious and nostalgic.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Margaret Wander Bonanno
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 402
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Bt Bound, Pocket Books
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780671734817
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Margaret Wander Bonanno (February 7, 1950 in New York City – April 8, 2021) was an American science fiction writer, ghost writer and small press publisher. She was born in New York City. She wrote seven Star Trek novels, several science fiction novels set in her own worlds, including The Others, a collaborative novel with Nichelle Nichols, a biography, and other works. Her novel Preternatural was a New York Times Notable Book for 1997. Preternatural 3, a sequel, was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002. She lived in the Los Angeles area.
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