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by Christopher L. Bennett (Author), William Leisner (Author), James Swallow (Author)

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Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Star Trek; Original edition (July 22 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416571809
ISBN-13: 978-1416571803
Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.6 x 3.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 481 g

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It's been said that for any event, there are an infinite number of possible outcomes. Our choices determine which outcome will follow, and therefore all possibilities that could happen do happen across countless alternate realities. In these divergent realms, known history is bent, like white light through a prism -- broken into a boundless spectrum of what-might-have-beens. But in those myriad universes, what might have been...is what actually happened.

A Less Perfect Union: More than a hundred years after the Terra Prime movement achieved its dream of an isolationist Earth, humanity is once again at a fork in the river of history...and the path it follows may ultimately be determined by the voice of a single individual: the sole surviving crewmember of the first Starship Enterprise.™

Places of Exile: Midway through Voyager's journey across the galaxy, Captain Kathryn Janeway and Commander Chakotay must choose whether to brave a deadly war zone or abandon their quest for home. But an attack by Species 8472 cripples the ship, and the stranded crew must make new choices that will reshape their destinies...and that of the Delta Quadrant itself.

Seeds of Dissent: Khan victorious! Almost four centuries after conquering their world, genetically enhanced humans dominate a ruthless interstellar empire. But the warship Defiance, under its augmented commander, Princeps Julian Bashir, makes a discovery that could shake the pillars of his proud civilization: an ancient sleeper ship from Earth named the Botany Bay.

About the Author

Christopher L. Bennett is the author of two previous works of Titan fiction, the novel Star Trek: Titan: Orion's Hounds and the short story "Empathy" in the Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows anthology. He has also authored such critically acclaimed novels as Star Trek: Ex Machina, Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Buried Age, and Star Trek: The Next Generation: Greater Than the Sum, as well as the alternate Voyager tale Places of Exile in Myriad Universes: Infinity's Prism. Shorter works include Star Trek: SCE #29: Aftermath and Star Trek: Mere Anarchy: The Darkness Drops Again, as well as short stories in the anniversary anthologies Constellations (original series), The Sky's The Limit (TNG), Prophecy and Change (DS9), and Distant Shores (VGR). Beyond Star Trek, he has penned the novels X-Men: Watchers on the Walls and Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder, and is also developing original science fiction novel concepts

James Swallow has written several books, including Star Trek: Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers and Seeds of Dissent (from Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Infinity's Prism); the Sundowners quartet of ?steampunk' science fiction Westerns (Ghost Town, Underworld, Iron Dragon and Showdown); the best-selling novelization of The Butterfly Effect; The Flight of the Eisenstein, Faith and Fire and Jade Dragon; the 2000AD tie-ins Eclipse, Blood Relative and Whiteout; Stargate Atlantis: Halcyon; and the Blood Angels duology Deus Encarmine and Deus Sanguinius.

In addition, Swallow's short fiction has appeared in Inferno! and Stargate magazine, the anthologies Star Trek Voyager: Distant Shores, the Doctor Who Short Trips collections Dalek Empire and Destination Prague, Something Changed, Collected Works, What Price Victory and Silent Night.

His non-fiction includes Dark Eye: The Films of David Fincher and books on writing, genre television and animation; he has also written for Star Trek: Voyager, Doctor Who and Space 1889, along with several scripts for audio and videogames.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Leave "Echoes", Take "Infinity's", Feb 15 2010

By	T. M. Stamler "Wannabe Anonymous" (Stonewall, MB Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

When I reviewed the sister book of "Infinity's Prism", "Echoes and Refractions", I was far from flattering. I recommended it to not even be read but by only the most merciful and die-hard of Trek fans. I had my reasons, though: The book was awful; it was boring and unimaginative to both Star Trek and alternate history fans.

With that in mind, THIS book is the exact opposite. I wrote in my "E and R" review that it carried all the trademark flaws of alternate history, but not only does "IP" lack these flaws, it also has (in all three stories) another positive alternative history quality that I had forgotten until just now: It ends with an indefinite conclusion. Why is that a positive quality? Because Star Trek (hey, history in general) doesn't have a finite ending. There is no "The End" or "...and they lived happily ever after...in space." because it's a tale that is meant to go on and on.

So needless to say, the stories were good, but for those of you still undecided, I'm gonna give you a little taste of what to expect.

While "A Less Perfect Union" was probably my least favourite story in this anthology, it was still a gem. To be fair, one of the reasons I didn't like it so much as the other two stories was probably because this one is based mostly on "Enterprise" and "The Original Series", which I have seen the least of the five Trek series.

Near the end of Enterprise's run they had an encounter with an Earth isolationist group called Terra Prime, intent on routing all non-humans from Earth space, and restricting Earth's stellar movements to commercial rather than exploratory goals. In "our" history, this group was stopped and Earth formed a long-lasting alliance with several different alien races, but in this history, Terra Prime's plan succeeded and we see what the Alpha Quadrant is like in James T. Kirk's early years aboard the USS Enterprise.

It's a much different place to boldly go, while there is no open conflict between Star Fleet and non-humans, Earth is filled with people still blatantly xenophobic, and when news gets out that Terran leaders are working on plans for a new Earth-Aliens alliance, it does not sit well.

Despite this darker toned Star Fleet, the story flows smoothly, taking the good and bad in and feeding it out to paint a realistic picture of a galaxy with an Earthless Federation. And the author, William Leisner, seems to know what changes to make in well-known characters, and what to keep the same. Kirk, for example, is still a courageous, intelligent, womanizing man-of-action, but here carries a surprising grudge against a familiar race.

It would be interesting to see what this timeline would be like come Jean-Luc Picard's time.

James Swallow's Trek novella, "Seeds of Dissent" is a clever combination of Trekkie what-if and the most popular alternate history question: What if Hitler Had Won? But here, Swallow replaces Hitler with his later Star Trek equivalent, Khan Noonien Singh, so if you thought Leisner's Earth-only Star Fleet was a cause for despair, you might very well scream at a universe where Khan conquered the world.

This Star Fleet more resembles The Mirror Universe than the one we know, where augmented soldiers bred for success and loyalty to "The Khan" scour the galaxy for what they deem to be inferior and upstart races, forcing them to either join their "alliance" or die. And at the head of our story is the cool, calculating visage of Julian Bashir, here the captain or Princeps of the warship "Defiance."

Looking back at this story, I can almost laugh. The parallels between Khan and Hitler are oh so subtly hidden, but obvious once found; the author doesn't even mention the latter of the two dictators. And the alternate versions of the different characters could cause jaws to drop, and seconds later those jaws would close and then say, "You know, I could actually see that!" I won't give anything really big away, except for one thing, and only because it's told early in the story:

Kira and Gul Dukat from "Deep Space Nine" are a couple here. A couple. That is all.

As good as those two were though, the whole reason I bought this anthology (and I will say that said reason is still justified) was for the second novella, this one written by Christopher L. Bennett and centered around "Voyager."

In this universe, a mere change of words on Chakotay's part results in the near destruction of Voyager, and her crew now find themselves having to confront the fear they hoped would never become reality: that they would be stuck in the Delta Quadrant forever.

Just like Leisner's "ALPU", Bennett does a good job capturing the pros and cons of the situation and its impact on the different crewmembers. He also points out some of the mistakes Captain Janeway made in her command, mistakes that were ignored in favour of Voyager getting home, but come back to haunt her here.

I will not lie; there are some things here that some readers will not like. In fact, there's one statement made by Janeway near the end that still leaves me scratching my head, but it's forgivable, this one can easily make up for it. So if you are a Voyager fan, and have a few what-if questions yourself, I would strongly recommend this book, and if you happen to read the other two stories and like them, too, well, terrific.

The only thing I can think of that this book has and "Echoes and Refractions" (I'm starting to think it should have been called "Deaf and Dull") is "The Next Generation." While two of "E and R" 's stories are strongly TNG based, the only mention of in "IP" is in Swallow's "Seeds" where an augmented Picard is mentioned but never seen. Too bad, but I can live with it.

So yeah, not much more to say that I haven't already said. Live long and prosper, and if you do happen do buy and read "Echoes and Refractions"...how about "Today is a good day to die."?

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