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Home Is The Hunter
''Home Is the Hunter'' is a '' Star Trek: The Original Series'' novel written by Dana Kramer-Rolls. Plot Captain Kirk, commanding the USS ''Enterprise'', gets into a fight with a Klingon ship concerning arguments over a primitive planet and its inhabitants. A mysterious, powerful entity named 'Weyland' stops the fight and decides to punish three of the ''Enterprise'' crew with their own history. Hikaru Sulu is sent to feudal Japan during a bloody power struggle. Scotty is sent to Scotland in the eighteenth century on the eve of revolt. Chekov is sent to his beloved homeland of Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ... during World War 2. All three eventually make it back home to their right time and place, Sulu even managing to leave a literal mark on history wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dana Kramer-Rolls
Dana may refer to: Businesses and organisations * Dana (company), a Slovenian beverage company * Dana (payment service), in Indonesia * Dana Air, a Nigerian airline * Dana College, formerly in Nebraska, U.S. * Dana Energy, an Iranian oil and gas company * Dana Gas, a natural gas company Sharjah, United Arab Emirates * Dana Incorporated, an American auto parts firm * Dana Foundation, an American private philanthropic foundation * Dana Mall, in Manama, Bahrain * Dana Petroleum, a Scottish oil and gas exploration and production company * Dana Research Centre and Library, in London, England * House of Dana, a perfumery founded in 1932 People * Dana (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Dana (surname), including a list of people with the surname * Dana family, a Boston Brahmin family * James Dwight Dana (1813–1895), scientist, zoological author abbreviation Dana. * Dana Rosemary Scallon (born 1951), known mononymously as Dana, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Birdsong
Keith Birdsong (July 14, 1959 – June 4, 2019) was an American illustrator, known best for illustrating covers of ''Star Trek'' novels, which usually depicted the various characters of the ''Star Trek'' television series and movies in a realistic manner. Life and career A self-taught artist, Birdsong grew up in Muskogee, Oklahoma, until the age of 15. He subsequently moved to California, and Texas for one year each. He then moved to Missouri, where he finished school, and got married before joining the United States Army, serving in the 82nd Airborne Division. He completed several illustration projects for the Army during this time. He self-identified as being of Cherokee and Muscogee descent. Birdsong worked as a journalist before becoming a professional illustrator. His chosen medium was acrylic paint and colored pencil. He did illustration work for ''Star Trek'', books of the cyberpunk role-playing game ''Shadowrun'', and children's books such as ''The Halloween Hex: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space exploration, time travel, Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universes, and extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial life. The genre often explores human responses to the consequences of projected or imagined scientific advances. Science fiction is related to fantasy (together abbreviated wikt:SF&F, SF&F), Horror fiction, horror, and superhero fiction, and it contains many #Subgenres, subgenres. The genre's precise Definitions of science fiction, definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Major subgenres include hard science fiction, ''hard'' science fiction, which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and soft science fiction, ''soft'' science fiction, which focuses on social sciences. Other no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pocket Books
Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books. History Pocket Books produced the first Paperback#Mass market paperback, mass-market, pocket-sized paperback books in the United States in early 1939 and revolutionized the publishing industry. The German Albatross Books had pioneered the idea of a line of color-coded paperback editions in 1931 under Kurt Enoch, and Penguin Books in Britain had refined the idea in 1935 and had one million books in print by the following year. Penguin's success inspired entrepreneur Robert Fair de Graff, who partnered with publishers Richard L. Simon, M. Lincoln Schuster, M. Lincoln ("Max") Schuster and Leon Shimkin of Simon & Schuster to bring the concept to the American market by founding ''Pocket Books''. Priced at 25 cents and featuring the logo of Gertrude the kangaroo (named after the mother-in-law of the artist, Frank Lieberman), Pocket Books' editorial policy of reprints of light literature, popular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paperback
A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, also known as wrappers, and often held together with adhesive, glue rather than stitch (textile arts), stitches or Staple (fastener), staples. In contrast, hardcover, hardback (hardcover) books are bound with cardboard covered with cloth, leather, paper, or plastic. Inexpensive books bound in paper have existed since at least the 19th century in such forms as pamphlets, yellow-backs, yellowbacks and dime novels. Modern paperbacks can be differentiated from one another by size. In the United States, there are "mass-market paperbacks" and larger, more durable "trade paperbacks". In the United Kingdom, there are A-format, B-format, and the largest C-format sizes. Paperback editions of books are issued when a publisher decides to release a book in a low-cost format. Lower-quality paper, glued (rather than stapled or sewn) bindings, and the lack of a hard cover may contribute to the lower cost of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enemy Unseen
''Enemy Unseen'' is a '' Star Trek: The Original Series'' novel written by V.E. Mitchell. The novel was originally set before "Where No Man Has Gone Before", but had to be rewritten at a late stage to be set after '' Star Trek: The Motion Picture'', due to Paramount insisting that the Deltans were not part of the United Federation of Planets In the fictional universe of ''Star Trek'', the United Federation of Planets (UFP) is the interstellar government with which, as part of its space force Starfleet, most of the characters and starships of the franchise are affiliated. Commonly re ... in that era. Plot The ''Enterprise'' is assigned to carry a diplomatic mission, which is nothing new. Things start to go really wrong for this one. The Federation ambassador is an old 'flame' of Kirk's, who aggressively tries to rekindle their old romance. Another diplomat presents Kirk with three of his wives, a situation with which he is not comfortable. Things take a turn for the worse w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost-Walker
''Ghost-Walker'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Barbara Hambly, part of the '' Star Trek: The Original Series'' saga. Plot Elcidar Beta III, inhabited by the Midgwins, is a planet strategically located between the Federation and the Klingon The Klingons ( ; Klingon language, Klingon: ''tlhIngan'' ) are a humanoid species of aliens in the science fiction franchise ''Star Trek''. Developed by screenwriter Gene L. Coon in 1967 for the Star Trek: The Original Series, original ''Star T ... empire. The Midgwins' refusal to embrace technological advances have left their planet devastated and their people endangered. The ''U.S.S. Enterprise'' tries to help but is hampered by a murderous force that roams its corridors seemingly at will. References External links Novels based on Star Trek: The Original Series 1991 American novels American science fiction novels Novels by Barbara Hambly {{1990s-StarTrek-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Original Series
''Star Trek'' is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew. It acquired the retronym of ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' (''TOS'' to distinguish the show within the media franchise that it began. The show is set in the Milky Way galaxy, 2266–2269. The ship and crew are led by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), First Officer and Science Officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Chief Medical Officer Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley). Shatner's voice-over introduction during each episode's opening credits stated the starship's purpose: Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship ''Enterprise''. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. Norway Productions and Desilu Productions produced the series from September 1966 to December 1967. Paramount Television pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
