The Rising (Volume 1 of the Flight Engineer - Star Trek's Scotty) - Softcover

James Doohan; S. M. Stirling

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671878492 ISBN 13: 9780671878498

Publisher: Baen, 1997

Synopsis

Crippled former pilot and flight engineer Peter Raeder finds his crew's struggle against their alien enemies threatened by an onboard traitor who is responsible for the death of Peter's predecessor. Reprint.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

The commercial hook to this novel, which launches not only the new line of Baen Starline titles and the line's first series, is that it also launches the fiction career of Doohan?whom most readers will recognize, if not by his name, then by his picture splashed across the novel's dust jacket. For Doohan is "Scotty" of Star Trek fame. Here, collaborating with veteran military SF writer Stirling (Drakon), he offers a far future in which the interplanetary Commonwealth is beset by Mollies, an offshoot group of religious fanatics, and their alien-anthropod allies, the Fibians. The primary object of contention is antihydrogen, used to fuel interplanetary ships. The novel introduces the series' major characters.There's Flight Engineer Peter Raeder (he of the "black-Irish good looks"), who's a Heinleinian hero, independent and competent yet neither mean nor humorless; offputting but hyperefficient Second Lieutenant Cynthia Robbins; and engineering chief Paddy Casey from New Hibernia. It also sets the stage for future volumes, offering plenty of high-tech action for fans of SF adventure, as well as a modestly satisfying central mystery that Raeder is assigned to solve. This isn't great SF, but Trekkies are likely to beam it up right off the bookstore shelves. Author tour.
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Review:

"... plenty of high-tech action for fans of SF adventure, as well as a ... satisfying central mystery that Raeder is assigned to solve ... Trekkies are likely to beam it up right off the bookstore shelves". -- Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Baen
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0671878492
• ISBN 13: 9780671878498
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• Illustrator: David Mattingly