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Terminator Salvation: Trial by Fire
by
Timothy Zahn
Following the dramatic events of Terminator Salvation, a recovering John Connor grants Barnes permission to return to the destroyed VLA lab and bury his brother, killed in the explosive opening of the movie. At the ruins Barnes and Blair Williams hunt through the debris for the remains of their comrade but instead uncover a mysterious cable leading up into the mountains. T...more
Mass Market Paperback, 320 pages
Published
February 9th 2011
by Titan Books
(first published 2010)
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About as good as you can reasonably expect from a novel based on the weakest entry in the Terminator movie franchise, Trial By Fire has some neat concepts, including a John Connor impostor and--my personal favorite--a Skynet apologist who argues that deep down Skynet is a benevolent entity which people simply haven't tried taking the time to understand. It reminded me of a conversation I recently had with a coworker who argued that Kim Jong-Il was less scary a leader than Dick Cheney, and that ...more
For those of you who have only watched the Terminator movies this book is where to begin reading the continuing story.
Timothy Zahn is one of those writers that could be given any existing science fiction story and take it to places that the original creator could not have imagined. Like he did with Star Wars (Dark Force Rising) Zahn jumps straight in and drags you by the collar into the thick of the action. And for the next 310 pages he does not let up or let go. Whilst keeping track...more
Timothy Zahn is one of those writers that could be given any existing science fiction story and take it to places that the original creator could not have imagined. Like he did with Star Wars (Dark Force Rising) Zahn jumps straight in and drags you by the collar into the thick of the action. And for the next 310 pages he does not let up or let go. Whilst keeping track...more
Good story using the characters from the movie.
I actually found this book (along with "Cold War" by Greg Cox) to be much more interesting than the T:Salvation movie. The sub-plot with Kyle didn't really grab be, and it seemed like it was pretty disconnected from the main plot with Barnes and Blair. Seemed like it was just there to add some meaningless action/suspense and fill some pages.
I actually found this book (along with "Cold War" by Greg Cox) to be much more interesting than the T:Salvation movie. The sub-plot with Kyle didn't really grab be, and it seemed like it was pretty disconnected from the main plot with Barnes and Blair. Seemed like it was just there to add some meaningless action/suspense and fill some pages.
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Timothy Zahn attended Michigan State University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 1973. He then moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and achieved an M.S. degree in physics in 1975. While he was pursuing a doctorate in physics, his adviser became ill and died. Zahn never completed the doctorate. In 1975 he had begun writing science fiction as a hobby, and he bec...more
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