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The Latter Fire (Star Trek: The Original Series) Mass Market Paperback – February 23, 2016

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An all-new novel from New York Times bestselling author James Swallow set in the popular universe of Star Trek: The Original Series!

The five-year mission of the Starship Enterprise has brought the vessel and her crew to the forefront of an important first contact situation. Under the command of Captain James T. Kirk, the ship is heading to the planet Syhaar Prime in the Beta Quadrant—the home world of an alien civilization preparing to take its first steps on to the galactic stage. One year earlier, the Enterprise came across a badly damaged Syhaari explorer vessel drifting in deep space. In collaboration with the explorer’s captain, Kirk and his crew were able to restore the ship to full function and send it on its way. And now, as the Syhaari display rapid technological advances made over the past year, hard questions must be asked. Did the Enterprise crew leak advanced technology or information to the Syhaari during their first encounter, in total violation of the Prime Directive?

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February 23, 2016
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1476783152
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James Swallow is a New York Times and Sunday Times (UK) bestselling author, BAFTA-nominated screenwriter, and the only British writer to have worked on a Star Trek television series. His Star Trek fiction includes The Latter Fire, Sight Unseen, The Poisoned Chalice, Cast No Shadow, Synthesis, Day of the Vipers, The Stuff of Dreams, Infinity’s Prism: Seeds of Dissent, and short stories in Seven Deadly Sins, Shards and Shadows, The Sky’s the Limit, and Distant Shores. His other works include the Marc Dane thriller series and tales from the worlds of 24, Doctor Who, Star Wars, Halo, Warhammer 40,000, and more. He lives and works in London.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pocket Books/Star Trek (February 23, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1476783152
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1476783154
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.13 x 1.1 x 6.75 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #551,921 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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James Swallow is a New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon bestselling author, a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nominee, a former journalist and the award-winning writer of over fifty books, along with numerous scripts for video games, radio and television.

His Marc Dane novels are fast-paced action thrillers featuring a former MI6 field officer turned private security operative; NOMAD, the first in the series, is published in the US by Forge. Book two - EXILE - will be on sale in May 2019.

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Sharon

Awsome book read!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 12, 2022

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Mr Swallowed writing is packed with adventure, each character, situation, dialog, and action true to the original that won all of our hearts and turned us into Trekies so many years ago. I look forward with snticipation to sharing his next adventure!

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AJ Blanc

New Worlds & New Civilizations

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This is the kind of story that Star Trek is all about. Meeting new species and facing the hardships that may come with that. The Latter Fire is a fairly simple story, and the characters all feel true to their on screen persona... except maybe Scotty, but perhaps that's just me. The write up provides all you need know going in, so I won't get in to that, but the most common complaint I've noticed in the reviews is that TLF is predictable. While there are certainly plot elements that some can say they've seen before, there's still plenty of surprises to make up for that. I did however find a few things that caught my attention:

The first is that there is a civilian-ran diplomatic corps. I don't know if this is a new thing, from the mind of the author, or if I simply don't remember any reference to it. Regardless, why do we need a diplomatic corps that's separate from Starfleet if they don't have any of their own resources (ships, supplies, security...)? Seems a little redundant when there's six ST shows where SF officers do diplomatic work. There's also a scene that takes place in the brig, and it uses a force field to contain the captive audience. I don't believe TOS-era ships used fields for their cells just yet, but the only evidence I have off the top of my head is ST V so that may be a non issue.

My biggest criticism is of the book's antagonist. Memorable villains are those who the reader/viewer can understand their motivations, and even empathize with their actions to some degree. The one here was so rigid and malicious that he became insufferable very quickly. There are definitely people like him IRL, but they make for poor fictional characters. Nobody would ever take a person like this seriously, and the dialog to/about him because tedious almost instantly... actually there's several conversations that discuss the same things multiple times. The climactic action scene would've been better if it was something other than including the villain one last time, IMHO of course.

Other than those nitpicks, I highly recommend this book to the hardcore and casual fan alike. There is some genuinely interesting things here that will be new to a lot of people. It's also very refreshing to read a ST book that actually feels like Trek. Live Long and Prosper!

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John F.

Interesting new concept over an old plot. Good though.

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So much of these TOS novels are about the politics of the 23rd century, and so few about discovering new phenomena. This novel is one of the latter. It's basically The Devil in the Dark retold with a villain, but that twist does make for a very interesting storyline. Overall, an enjoyable read.

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Gary Sapp

Good Read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 7, 2021

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Ive been away from fictional publications for nearly 10 years. This was a fine ScFi yarn to pull me back in.

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Scotty Moore

A middle-of-the road TOS episode

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This is a well-written book in terms of style, pacing and plot. I can totally imagine this book as an episode of the original Star Trek (or more appropriately, an episode of the Animated Series). All of the main officers get their moments to shine and all of the characters act as you expect. From that standpoint, it’s a satisfying story. If you are looking, however, for some new insight into the principal characters, or even a new moral/philosophical take on things, then you’ve come to the wrong place.

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David Miraglia

Good Solid Original Series Trek.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 26, 2016

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The Latter Fire is a excellent original series novel. Well paced and set at the end of the original series after the Turnabout Intruder and the beginning of the Animated Series The novel was well written. The author has a firm grasp of the characters. The plot was believable.
Little touches like the inclusion of the Tikopai class Constitution ship: Altair and the inclusion of another Constitution class ship, the Arcadia added a little more depth to the story. It was refreshing not to see the usual ship candidates Ala Lexington etc being added on.

The only problem was that the novel lagged at points. But other than that, I would call this a job well done.

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Risu

A really great TOS read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 22, 2016

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After being a lifetime Trekkie, I’ve only recently started reading the novels again after a break of many years. This is one of the best I’ve read. I’m giving it 5 stars, which it deserves. James Swallow captured the personality and voice of the TOS crew as well as bringing Arex and M’Ress along from TAS. It was great to read both of those characters as flesh and blood people not cartoons. His Spock, Kirk, and McCoy were spot on as well, and Uhura had some wonderful moments that contributed to the entire plot.

The pacing is good. It’s an interesting plot, and the aliens are diverse and interesting. The world building is also well done. You’re not barraged with huge info dumps. You get enough as you go along to paint a picture without getting overwhelmed.

All in all it was a lot of fun and very, very TOS.

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The Mission Continues

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Another solid Star Trek adventure!

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Bluedragonfly

more of what I love best, without added angst or soul searching or ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 15, 2016

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Thoroughly enjoyable. All the main characters are on form, the story is gripping and authentic to the feel of the original Star Trek series, its an episode writ large, and that's all we really want, isn't it? Its all I want, more of what I love best, without added angst or soul searching or unwarranted reinvention for the sake of reinvention. One to read again in the future.

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I have read a lot of Star Trek novels over the years and this is right up there with the best of them. If you are a fan of STOS then this is a must read.

Charlie Holton

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Great book a little bit more worn than was described but still great

Louise

Great story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 22, 2018

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Super easy to read, a real page turner! Felt very true to the characters and had me gripped throughout. Highly recommended xx