GROUNDED [Import] [Paperback]

David Bischoff (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Star Trek (1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1852864621
• ISBN-13: 978-1852864620
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,607,893 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

David Bischoff has published over one hundred novels including THE SELKIE, THE JUDAS CROSS and THE GAMING MAGI TRILOGY.

"I'm so pleased to both THE DESTINY DICE and WRAITH BOARD, the first in my fantasy trilogy THE GAMING MAGI, in ebook format. I let my imagination run wild on this one. I did it before A GAME OF THRONES by George R.R. Martin and I'm thrilled it's reached a kind of cult status -- particularly amongst computer gamers and designers who've told me it influenced them."

Bischoff's other novels now available on the Kindle include TIN WOODMAN, the basis for the STAR TREK:THE NEXT GENERATION episode "Tin Man" and the STAR HOUNDS series.

"Wow," says Bischoff. "When I put THE INFINITE BATTLE out, it roared right up
the charts."

Book Two STAR HOUNDS: GALACTIC WARRIORS and Book Three STAR HOUNDS: THE MACROCOSMIC CONFLICT have just been released.




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Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars AWFUL!, January 10, 2002

By 

"oatmealboy" (Lansing, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grounded (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 25) (Mass Market Paperback)

I've never read a Star Trek book this bad. I don't think the author had ever seen the show, or had a clue who the characters were. I kept trying to give it a chance, but a few chapters in I finally gave up and threw it away. Awful, awful, awful.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars ST-TNG: Grounded, June 29, 2003

By 

Joe Zika "Khemprof" (Cincinnati, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grounded (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 25) (Mass Market Paperback)

Star Trek - The Next Generation: Grounded written by David Bichoff is a mildly adventurous book that could have been written better. There are errors throughout the book and others on this review page have pointed them out. But as for the general overall story, it could have been better.

The alien in this novel is a clay-based life form that takes over the Enterprise and transforms inorganic materials to it's own form as it spreads thoughout the Enterprise endangering the crew. All of this happens in a remote part of the galaxy as the clay entity makes it's way piggy-back on the Enterprise.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard has a feeling that something isn't quite right with his ship and does a level one diagnostic as the crew is involved they begin to find the extent of the problem. This book has a subplot that mixes with the primary plot as Data is the dance partner to an autistic child, and that part of the story drags on as the real problem seems to get worse by the minute for the Enterprise and her crew.

The ending to this story is the confrontation with this malevolent alien force and there is a clever way of making this alien compliable. The book, as mentioned before, could have been written better. The story was clever but it fell flat.

This book is a 3 star book and that was generous... the editing had a lot to do with it. Whomever was the editor, needed to be more familuar with TREK cannon and the book would have flowed better and would have been a more pleasant read.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just couldn't get into the story., January 11, 2000

By 

Larry A Renon (Chino Hills, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grounded (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 25) (Mass Market Paperback)

After forcing myself to read 30 pages I couldn't get into the story. I wasn't made to care about the characters or their dire situation. I was familiar with the characters, but I didn't see the characters I knew from the TV show. I felt the crew frequently calling Captain Picard 'Jean-Luc' was inappropriate and out of character. The dialog was written as if only one person was speaking for everyone. During a wardroom discussion, Data refers to Commander Riker as 'Captain', which indicated to me that I could expect other distracting inacurracies were I to continue reading. I plan to donate my copy of this book to the local library's fifty-cent sale bin.