Corona [Hardcover]

Greg Bear (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1985

Corona

An awesome, sentinent force of protostars -- Corona -- has taken control of a stranded team of Vulcan scientists. The U.S.S Enterprise™ has come on a rescue mission, with a female reporter and a new computer that can override Kirk's command. Suddenly, the rescuers must save themselves and the entire Universe -- before Corona unleashes a Big Bang!

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The Corona, an awesome, sentient force of protostars, has taken control of a stranded team of Vulcan scientists. The U.S.S. Enterprise^TM comes on a rescue mission, with a female reporter and a new computer that can override Kirk's command. Suddenly, the rescuers must save themselves and the entire Universe -- before Corona unleashes a Big Bang! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Ultramarine Pub Co (June 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0893662461
• ISBN-13: 978-0893662462
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,854,229 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Greg Bear is the author of more than thirty books, spanning thrillers, science fiction, and fantasy, including Blood Music, Eon, The Forge of God, Darwin's Radio, City at the End of Time, and Hull Zero Three. His books have won numerous international prizes, have been translated into more than twenty-two languages, and have sold millions of copies worldwide. Over the last twenty-eight years, he has also served as a consultant for NASA, the U.S. Army, the State Department, the International Food Protection Association, and Homeland Security on matters ranging from privatizing space to food safety, the frontiers of microbiology and genetics, and biological security.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not even in the right universe!, March 17, 2003

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RoseWelsh "rosewelsh" (St. George, UT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Corona (Star Trek) (Mass Market Paperback)

Those of you who know me know that I like Star Trek because it's a visit with old friends. Authors who can give voice to the ST character, write so that I can hear their voices, are considered to me to be top of the line. Authors who have a grasp of the ST universe, who can write the situations well enough are also top dog. Greg Bear doesn't even come close!

Greg Bear is a marvelous sci fi author. Sadly, I'm afraid, he cannot recreate the Star Trek Universe. Now mind you, he was writing _Corona_ before TNG came out so I tried to give him some slack. But the technology they were installing into the Enterprise was far advanced of anything in TNG. Eventually that fact got on my nerves.

But the worst thing of all is that he had no grasp of the characters, how they speak, what they would do. Captain Kirk would never have ignored another crew member's warning the way Greg Bear has him doing.

I could not and finally did not finish this book. As I was not really visiting old friends or the ST universe, it was a waste of my time. If you want to read a good Greg Bear book.... any other book he's done is heads and shoulders above this one.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An enjoyable quick read., October 6, 2000

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James Yanni (Bellefontaine Neighbors, Mo. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Corona (Star Trek, No 15) (Paperback)

Bear does a reasonably good job of portraying the known characters, and develops a few new ones that are also interesting. His plot has some similarities to the episode "The Ultimate Computer", and also some similarities to various books and episodes, notably "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", that involve the Enterprise saving the universe (or at least all life as we know it therein) from an almost-all-powerful energy creature. But for all of that, the plot is handled well enough that it was only occasionally noticable that the basic plot was somewhat hackneyed. Also, interestingly, it was not actually a member of the Enterprise crew who really saves the day.

This book does not, really, break any new ground, but the plot moves well and the writing is competent.

3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, February 23, 2011

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Galactus - See all my reviews

This review is from: Corona (Star Trek) (Mass Market Paperback)

The level of technology has gone up a notch from the original TV series. For example : Warp 11 and Kirk's brain implant. Seems to me that you would test the monitors before hooking them up to the Enterprise where they can take over. Spock asked if the Monitors could be taken off line and the specialist did not know. Spock and Jim seem off a bit.

Save for those few elements mentioned above, I rather enjoyed reading the book.