My Enemy, My Ally (A Star Trek Novel) [Hardcover]

Diane Duane (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Pocket Books; First Hardback edition (1984)
• ASIN: B000HMRT6Y
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,102,489 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Diane Duane was born in New York City -- a descendant of New York's first mayor -- and worked there as a psychiatric nurse before leaving the profession for the only one she loved better, the business of writing. Since the publication of her first novel in 1981, she's written fifty more, not to mention numerous short stories, comics, computer games and screenplays for TV and film, and has picked up the occasional award here and there. (She has also worked with Star Trek in more media than anyone else alive.)

Right now she's probably best known for her "Young Wizards" series of young adult fantasy novels, featuring the New York-based wizards Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan -- in business for twenty-five years now, their most recent adventure being described in the ninth YW novel, "A Wizard of Mars" (just released in paperback).

DD shares a two hundred-year-old cottage in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland with her husband, the Belfast-born novelist and screenwriter Peter Morwood, a laid-back white cat named Goodman, and various overworked computers... an odd but congenial environment for the staging of epic battles between good and evil and the leisurely pursuit of total galactic domination. (And a lot of ethnic cooking: her own favorite foods come from the cuisines of central Europe and the Mediterranean.) In her spare time she gardens (weeding, mostly), studies German and Italian, listens to shortwave and satellite radio, and dabbles in astronomy, computer graphics, iaido, amateur cartography, and desktop publishing ... while also trying to figure out how to make more spare time.

Her favorite color is blue, her favorite food is a weird kind of Swiss scrambled-potato dish called maluns, she was born in a Year of the Dragon, and her sign is "Runway 24 Left, Hold For Clearance."

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2.0 out of 5 stars Revisionist Romulans, April 18, 2010

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This review is from: Rihannsu : My Enemy, My Ally (No. 1) (Star Trek: The Original Ser., No. 18) (Mass Market Paperback)

The Romulans used to be my favorite Star Trek villains. I read the Rihannsu series because I thought it would be a fun exploration of Romulan culture and history. However, I barely recognized the Romulans in Rihannsu. The book degrades them and seems to radically alter their characters. The main character, Ael, seems too perfect, while the rest of the Romulans seem like a bunch of buffoons. Furthermore, the book radically changes Romulan history that just doesn't seem realistic. It's too bad - the Romulans as presented in the Original Series were fascinating characters who had both honor and deviousness. The Romulans in Rihannsu have little of either.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Romulan Book There Is, June 8, 2007

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This review is from: Rihannsu : My Enemy, My Ally (No. 1) (Star Trek: The Original Ser., No. 18) (Mass Market Paperback)

Enter the dangerous world of Romulan Politics fought across the naked stars. Where Honor is everything, or nothing, and a fantastic story awaits.

The author has a gift for writing the canon characters of Kirk, Spock and the rest as well as numerous new ones seamlessly integrated whom we get to know. The action is brisk and logical. The finale rivetting. There are touches of humor and nods to sci fi fans of all kinds and the story keeps moving along so we never get bored waiting for something to happen.

Read this with The Romulan Way.