The Murdered Sun

"The Murdered Sun" is Star Trek Voyager's premier and most prolific author, Christie Golden's first novel in the Star Trek genre and arguably, among the best of the Voyager novels to date. From this very first novel of hers I found her plot framing, characterizations, pacing and overall writing style to be very enjoyable. Few of the authors during this early period in Star Trek Voyager's run captured the characters as well as Christie Golden does with this novel. Given that continued talent and several other titles in the Voyager series, she was later honored with the opportunity to write the inaugural novels in the Voyager relaunch series, "Homecoming" and "The Farther Shore."The cover art for "The Murdered Sun" is pretty much standard fare for Voyager at the time, if not below standard.The premise:Voyager's sensors indicate a possible wormhole nearby and Captain Janeway is more than eager to investigate, hoping against hope to find a quicker way for her wayward starship to get home. Instead of finding the wormhole, Janeway and crew happen upon the Akerians who are a warlike race and are taking siege to Veruna Four. In order to get to the wormhole, Janeway finds that not only must she protect the innocent inhabitants of Veruna Four but she must risk direct confrontation with the Akerians.What follows from there is, as stated above, one of the best early Star Trek Voyager numbered novels that is well worth taking the time to read. I highly recommend this novel to any and all fans of Star Trek fiction. {ssintrepid}

I'm amazed to see some negative reviews of this book. It's by far the best of the Voyager series. I'm not a big Voyager fan, but I would be if the characters on TV were as interesting as they are in this book. Golden shows you how good the TV show might have been. If you like Voyager at all, get this book.

BY FAR THIS IS THE BEST VOYAGER BOOK I HAVE READ TO DATE. AFTER READING THIS YOU REALIZE THE HUMAN SIDE OF PARIS AND SOME OF THE CREW. YOU WILL BE PULLING FOR THEM TO SET ASIDE THE PRIME DIRECTIVE.

I catalogued this book as one of the best written about Voyager, Chakotay and Paris character analysis is extremely interesting. There are also some new thechnical details about gravity shields and black holes that give more substance to the story.

I loved this book, it mixes her skill of a horror novel writer and a science fiction writer to make one good book, she is definately one of my favorite authors, even better than Stephen King!