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  <title><![CDATA[Strangers from the Sky (Star Trek, Giant Novel 2)]]></title>
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  <default-description>In the twenty-first centruy humanity has united after countless years of warfare, and turns toward the stars. But when an alien spacecraft crashlands in the South Pacific bearing visitors from another world, the Vulcans, Earth must decide whether to extend the hand of friendship, or the fist of war.  &lt;P&gt;In the distant future, horrible dreams torment Admiral James T. Kirk, dreams prompted by his reading of &lt;i&gt;Strangers From the Sky&lt;/i&gt;, a book about that historic first contact. He dreams of an alternate reality where he somehow changed the course of history, and destroyed the Federation before it began.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1987</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Strangers From the Sky (Star Trek)</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Margaret Wander Bonanno]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Sep 03 17:38:20 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, it was an interesting premise that was carried off fairly well; Kirk getting locked up in the loony bin was funny (albeit unintentionally) and his relationship with Spock was very well drawn. However, the fact remains that not much actually <em>hap...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69788702">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this years ago. We got a huge box of Star Trek novels at a yard sale for $2, and over the following years I picked up several to read, but I only remember making it all the way through one or two. This one was quite interesting, because it covered the humans' first contact with the Vulcans. R...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59793980">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Aug 22 19:04:28 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 22 19:05:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite Star Trek books.  Kirk and Spock through dreams recover lost memories of the true &quot;first time&quot; Vulcans and humans meet, and the pivotal rolls they played in paving the way for peaceful interactions years later.<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="27498657">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 17 00:28:14 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 17 00:36:26 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An intriguing book-within-a-book interspersed with scenes from two different ST eras. The &quot;frame&quot; story is set after ST:TMP, and the flashbacks are set just shortly before &quot;Where No Man Has Gone Before&quot;. The contrast between the Kirk, Spock, and others in the two eras is well-han...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27498657">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19132323">
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  <date_added>Mon Mar 31 14:34:38 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[While I'm no big fan of the plethora of Star Trek novels, a few do manage to stand out and this is one of them. Most of them I can't even get all the way through without dropping it in favor of a newspaper, this one I've read three times.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Further evidence that Spock is compassionate.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 1987</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Dec 18 10:45:13 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[read 08.28.87]]></body>
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