Corona

Greg Bear is such a wonderful writer!!! And this is everything you expect from him!!! Just great!!!!

This book was short, but full of action. A few chapters in the middle of the book were a little slow going due to the amount of technobabble, but the ending was unexpected. I like the way the reporter in the story is weary of Vulcans and all aliens at first, but is the one who ends up saving the day. It's a good moral at the end of the story type book.

Long before he was tapped to write a novel set in the Star Wars universe, Greg Bear turned in this novel, a Star Trek novel.While his characterization of the Star Trek characters (both new and the characters we know and love) is adequate, he really shines in world-building, in the nature of the "problem".For once a Star Trek novel where the Klingons aren't going to conquer the quadrant, or the Romulans hatch yet another scheme, or any of the usually overworn tropes. You'll wish,upon reading, that it was made into an episode, or even a movie.

I really loved this book.It was one of the best "star trek" novels that I have ever read(and I've read quite a few)THE VERY IDEA that at the beginning of time there existed a race of sentient protostars was "fasinating".Some may think this is the usual "Kirk kills the malevolent entity and saves the universe"book are dead wrong.FIRSTLY,it's really Spock who "saves the universe,and "Corona" isn't actually malevolent,just lonely.In all,get the the book even if you are just curious about Corona(AND its origins)

This book is the one that got me started reading books in English. Only "Star Trek-The Motion Picture" was published in Norwegian, so when I came across "Corona", a whole new world of Star Trek books opened up to me. After that I've read all kinds of books in English, but this beeing kind of special to me. It's not the best ST book I've ever read, but I collect them all.