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Publication
New York : Pocket Books, c1984.
Description
Composer Guy Maslin joins the crew of the Enterprise to investigate the strange continuous song of the inhabitants of Taygeta, source of a dangerous spacewarp, and they discover that the destruction of the Singers is linked to the growing discontinuity.
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LibraryThing member JohnFair
This is one of the more interesting books in the ST: TOS universe. It features Uhura, communications officer of the Enterprise as one of the main characters as the Enterprise is tasked to find out what had created a terrifying crack in space in the Taygeta system that had already destroyed a
Even throwing in the intervention of Klingons is handled fairly well, treating the commander of the Klingon ships and his wife in an interesting way that is not usual in this period. Overall I enjoyed the story and while some of the messages are relatively obvious there are quite a few good action sequences as well.
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starship and was greedily reaching out to the system's sun. As the Enterprise crew starts collecting information, it becomes clear that a musician would be a great addition to the crew and it just happens Guy Maslin, musical genius and uber bad boy of the Federal musical firmament is on the same station so he gets co-opted onto the team. At first hating this imposition, Maslin finds the puzzle of the Taygetan song of great interest.Even throwing in the intervention of Klingons is handled fairly well, treating the commander of the Klingon ships and his wife in an interesting way that is not usual in this period. Overall I enjoyed the story and while some of the messages are relatively obvious there are quite a few good action sequences as well.
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Language
Original publication date
1984-09 (eng.)
1988 (deu.)
Physical description
252 p.; 18 cm
ISBN
0671502840 / 9780671502843