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 The first novel based on the thrilling Paramount+ TV series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds!

When an experimental shuttlecraft fails, Captain Christopher Pike suspects a mechanical malfunction—only to discover the very principles on which Starfleet bases its technology have simply stopped functioning. He and his crewmates are forced to abandon ship in a dangerous maneuver that scatters their party across the strangest new world they’ve ever encountered.

First Officer Una Chin-Riley finds herself fighting to survive an untamed wilderness where dangers lurk at every turn. Young cadet Nyota Uhura struggles in a volcanic wasteland where things are not as they seem. Science Officer Spock is missing altogether. And Pike gets the chance to fulfill a childhood dream: to live the life of a cowboy in a world where the tools of the twenty-third century are of no use.

Yet even in the saddle, Pike is still very much a starship captain, with all the responsibilities that entails. Setting out to find his crewmates, he encounters a surprising face from his past—and discovers that one people’s utopia might be someone else’s purgatory. He must lead an exodus—or risk a calamity of galactic proportions that even the Starship Enterprise is powerless to stop... Adventure Fiction Genre Fiction Military Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Science Fiction Star Trek
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With the time available to explore this story, this feels gratifyingly like the book of a SNW-era film, rather than an episode. Starting with the focus on an away team of Captain Pike, Number One, Spock and Uhura, it focuses on the former two for the first half, which as a Spock fan was mildly disappointing at first. It's a great portrayal of Pike, however, and in many ways he is in his element here. There's adventure, humour, philosophy... but little science, for the majority of the story, which is again a slight mismatch to expectations, but didn't detract from a good yarn. The narrator managed a wide range of voices (except a passable British accent for La'an), the (strange new) world-building was adequate and everything comes to a satisfying conclusion. I couldn't stop listening! just makes me want to spend more time with this crew, in any format.

Luxuriously lengthy Pike-heavy adventure

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A very good story with lots of throwbacks to other shows. I think that this story should be pitched to Kurtzman as a potential film.

A SNW film?

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This is an enjoyable book that is worth reading. It takes along the spirit of the show and the narrator reading it is brilliant. I must recommend it.

Brilliant Trek

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An engaging and clever story well presented and read. Even though listening, I almost believed that I was watching the show. Thank you!

Nicely done

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An enjoyable listen that captures the spirit of the show. Well read as always by a great narrator.

Enjoyable trek

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