Stargate SG-1: Relativity: SG1--10 (Stargate Sg-1) [Mass Market Paperback]

James Swallow (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 25, 2007

Stargate Command's attempts to sign a treaty with the Pack, a race of gypsy space travellers, is jeopardised by a series of attacks from an unknown enemy. While searching for the perpetrators, Jack begins to suspect that the Pack are concealing a dangerous secret.

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About the Author

James Swallow has been a professional writer since 1988; the author of several books and scripts, he is the only British writer to have worked on a Star Trek television series, and he has written extensively in many areas, including science fiction, film, television, Far East media, gaming and aviation. As a journalist, consultant and editor, his work has appeared in over sixty different magazines in eight languages around the world. James also makes regular appearances on radio, the Internet and television, as well as in person at conventions. He is the author of STARGATE ATLANTIS: Halcyon and STARGATE SG-1: Relativity.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Fandemonium Books; Mti edition (September 25, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1905586078
• ISBN-13: 978-1905586073
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #527,574 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

James Swallow has written several books, including Star Trek: Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers and Seeds of Dissent (from Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Infinity's Prism); the Sundowners quartet of 'steampunk' science fiction Westerns (Ghost Town, Underworld, Iron Dragon and Showdown); the best-selling novelization of The Butterfly Effect; The Flight of the Eisenstein, Faith and Fire and Jade Dragon; the 2000AD tie-ins Eclipse, Blood Relative and Whiteout; Stargate Atlantis: Halcyon; and the Blood Angels duology Deus Encarmine and Deus Sanguinius.


In addition, Swallow's short fiction has appeared in Inferno! and Stargate magazine, the anthologies Star Trek Voyager: Distant Shores, the Doctor Who Short Trips collections Dalek Empire and Destination Prague, Something Changed, Collected Works, What Price Victory and Silent Night.


His non-fiction includes Dark Eye: The Films of David Fincher and books on writing, genre television and animation; he has also written for Star Trek: Voyager, Doctor Who and Space 1889, along with several scripts for audio and videogames.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Boring, January 7, 2008

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Sydney Winchester (Nashua, NH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stargate SG-1: Relativity: SG1--10 (Stargate Sg-1) (Mass Market Paperback)

I found this book to be the least intersting of all the Stargate SG-1 fiction books available. The plot was slow, and honestly, not that interesting. I have found fan fiction on the web that is more interesting and better written. Not to mention more intuned with the characters.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars If you are a fan, save your money., February 25, 2008

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J. Phipps "SciPhi Phan" (Los Angeles, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stargate SG-1: Relativity: SG1--10 (Stargate Sg-1) (Mass Market Paperback)

Chapter 1 started on page 7. On page 8 the author wrote, "I would doubt that this valley has ever seen vegetation of any kind, Colonel." Which would have been a fine line, if it hadn't been Teal'c speaking. I should have stopped reading right there. If Teal'c ever addressed Jack by rank alone, or anything other than O'Neill, I'll eat my zat. Add to the awful voicing of the main characters, the fact that the author avoided character development of several of his own key characters to try and build some kind of a surprise ending and you get a book full of new folks you really don't care about. Now, while NOT inventing a new foe is fine, if your story revisits a System Lord, rehashing a civilization who weren't all that interesting the first OR second time the TV show went there, made no sense. You could fly a Goa'uld mothership through the plot holes in this book, before even discussing the alternate timeline. And by the end of the book the Pack are fighting their uncharacteristically agressive foes, in space, with landing craft, forgetting that on page 31 the author gave them a PAIR of Goa'uld motherships. I'm not going to bother buying Halcyon.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Bother Unless You're Really Desperate, February 2, 2008

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Becca Telor - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stargate SG-1: Relativity: SG1--10 (Stargate Sg-1) (Mass Market Paperback)

This is definetly not the book you should go for if you wnat to read about Stargate. The plot dosen't really pick up until around 2/3rds of the way through. The characterizations are completely off. There several important new characters, if you like those, but none of them are really compelling. several comments that seem like plot points appear throughout the book, then vanish, never to be picked up on again. The only exuse for this novel is that it was written in a rush, and if it wasn't then it was just bad all around because of incompetence.