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Featuring:
"Isolation Ward 4"
Strange New Worlds IV features more than a dozen never-before-published stories spanning the twenty-third and twenty-fourth centuries, from the early days of James T. Kirk and his crew to the later generations of Captains Picard, Sisko, and Janeway. These memorable new tales explore and examine the past and future of Star Trek from many different perspectives.
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Did you know that "Isolation Ward 4" made
the preliminary ballot of the 2002 Nebula Awards?
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Featuring:
"Morning Bells Are Ringing"
Each of these stories features our favorite Trek characters in new and adventerous situations. In this anthology, we get to experience a new version of the Kobayashi Maru, feel what it's like to be inside the Borg collective, delight in tasting new foods, and encourage Starfleet's future.
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Featuring:
"Ha'mara"
PATHWAYS TRAVELLED... The widowed father struggling to rebuild his shattered life, reborn as a religious icon to millions of believers.
Rediscover this extraordinary saga in a landmark collection of tales that confronts assumptions, divulges secrets, and asks as many questions as it answers. These stories, entwined with familiar episodes, reveal the world of Deep Space Nine anew.
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Featuring:
"His Soul Goes Marching On"
This story features takes place in 1884, a year after the Webb family was torn apart by the death of their beloved wife and mother. Joshua Webb, a newspaper man from Colorado, drags his daughter to Harpers Ferry to photograph the ghost of John Brown, unware that the supernatural experience will help mend their strained relationship.
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Featuring:
"The Paladin"
Lords of Justice is a collection of tales just as fun, and well written, as the comics published by DC and Marvel. It’s a thrill packed ride through the world of masks, capes, and high tech gear that will keep you turning the pages to the end and leave you wanting you more. -Eric S Brown, 2008 Author of The Season of Rot Contains action packed superhero stories by 4 of today's most talented authors.
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Featuring:
Interviews with
Kevin G. Summers
Voyages of Imagination takes a look back on the first forty years of professionally published Star Trek fiction, revealing the personalities and sensibilities of many of the novels' imaginative contributors and offering an unprecedented glimpse into the creative processes, the growing pains, the risks, the innovations, the missteps, and the great strides taken in the books.
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Isolation Ward 4
"This story, for me, one of the most powerful in all of SNW history, caught me up front with the clear voice, the format, and the viewpoint. We have a clear character in a setting, with a problem. My first thought as I was pulled down into this journal writing was can this author pull this off? By the time I got to the end, with the character change being in the Doctor, I was stunned. This is not only Star Trek at its best, but science fiction at its best, dealing with the themes and problems of alieness in all forms, both racial, and social."
-Dean Wesley Smith
"Kevin G. Summers' 'Isolation Ward 4,' my favorite story in the entire collection, consists of the diaries of Dr. James Wykoff -- the Damar-lookalike physician treating Benny Russell in a mental institution during 'Shadows and Symbols.' In Summers' period piece, a racist doctor and his family read Russell's stories and evolve into better human beings -- one of Trek's most powerful themes, revisited with grace and passion."
-The Trek Nation
"...the one story moved me enough to be glad I bought this book. "Isolation Ward 4". If you enjoy trek and short stories you should appreciate the stories in "Strange New Worlds IV."
-Jacqueline Bundy |
Morning Bells Are Ringing
"Morning Bells Are Ringing by Kevin G. Summers: One shy, awkward glance by a little girl in a turbolift becomes an entire story. This was great, and was very deftly written to convey the relationships involved. I liked this one very much."
-D. Fisher |
Ha'mara
"Ha'mara by Kevin G. Summers is set a few days after the premiere episode, "Emissary", and takes the reader back to where it all started, the planet Bajor just days after the discovery of the wormhole. The central characters Sisko, Kira, Opaka and Jake are each beginning a new chapter in their lives; some face that future with certainty, some with doubts. When an unexpected tragedy forces each into confrontations both personal and emotional, I felt as if a missing piece of the puzzle of the first season of Deep Space Nine had fallen into place. With this contribution Summers proves that his remarkable Strange New Worlds story, "Isolation Ward 4", was no fluke."
-The Trek Nation
"Perhaps the best story of the lot is Kevin Summers' "Ha'mara", which takes us all the way back to Sisko's first journey to the Bajor that would become his home over the course of the television series. Notable for giving us our first real look at a lot of introductions that the television pilot left out, it weaves together broad political themes with the very personal struggles of Ben and Jake Sisko. DEEP SPACE NINE was always remarkable for its deft handling of the big and small pictures, but maybe there's never been quite as poignant a moment in any part of the DEEP SPACE NINE legacy--televised or literary--as Summers gives us here. Without giving too much away, I'll just say that in the midst of exploring exactly why the Bajorans were so distrustful of the new Federation presence, Summers takes the time to give us a portrait of the exact moment Jake Sisko became a writer. So simply moving was this scene that I can still remember it now, some two years after having read it. If there had been nothing else in this book but that one moment, I would have felt my purchase price fully justified. Happily, there's so very much more in this rich collection, which leaves no major character without a truly signature moment."
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"Ha'mara by Kevin G. Summers - Set a few days after the pilot episode "Emissary," Benjamin Sisko takes Kira, Jake, Julian Bashir, and Kai Opaka to Bajor to explore the remains of one of Bajor's long-lost libraries. When an explosion traps Sisko and Kira, they must examine their hidden uncertainties as to whether or not Sisko is the prophesied Emissary. This allegory reveals how Sisko continues to come to terms with his identity and destiny."
-Trek Web |
The Paladin
While all four of the book’s novellas are very well written, Kevin G. Summers’ “The Paladin” really stands out as worthy of note. The story focuses on a teenage boy who has no powers and decides to don a homemade style Batman suit to avenge his brother’s death and rid his city of drug dealers. It’s a fantasy every comic fan can relate to as well as a deeply emotional tale of a young man’s struggle to find himself and his place in the world. The story is also full of references to everything from characters like Green Arrow and Nightwing to Dungeons and Dragons making it an even more fun read if you’re a geek yourself. Above all though, the story stays true to real life and evokes a great deal of sympathy for its protagonist.
-Eric S. Brown |
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