Star Trek: Mission to Horatius Author: Mack Reynolds Published 1968 by Whitman IT’S 1968 Your favourite tv series is currently showing on NBC each week. You crave the weekly adventures of Captain Kirk and crew and relish every second of whatever exciting dilemma they are faced with each episode, but it’s just not enough. Sure there are a few novelization adaptions, some writers guides and reference guides and some comics, but nothing with anything new. One lazy Saturday afternoon you stumble across a Star Trek novel with fresh content. New adventures! In book form! You can’t wait to gobble it up. IT’S 1968 Streaming services don’t exist. No physical copies of your favorite shows. No DVDs, laser discs, VHS or Beta tapes. No recording the shows straight off your tv. So when you read of the crew of the intrepid U.S.S. Enterprise visit planets with cultures that represent episodes straight from the TV, it all seems vaguely familiar. Wait, this is kinda like that episode where the crew where forced to fight gladiator battles, or the episode where the planet inhabitants were constantly drugged and brainwashed in a cult society, etcetera… IT’s 1968 The concept of the Star Trek future … Continue reading Star Trek: Mission to Horatius Book Review