The Entrophy Effect, Vonda N. McIntyre
The Entrophy Effect, Vonda N. McIntyre
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The Entrophy Effect

Author: Vonda N. McIntyre

Narrator: George Takei, Leonard Nimoy

Abridged: 1 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/15/1988

Synopsis

The U.S.S. EnterpriseTM is summoned to transport a dangerous criminal from Starbase prison to a rehabilitation center, the brilliant physicist Dr. Georges Mordreaux, accused of promising to send people back in time, and then killing them instead.

But there's more at stake than just a few lives. For Mordreaux's experiments have somehow thrown the entire universe into a deadly time warp. All of existence is closing in on itself, and only Spock can stop the Entropy Effect.

About Vonda N. McIntyre

Vonda N. McIntyre is the author of several fiction and nonfiction books. McIntyre won her first Nebula Award in 1973, for the novelette “Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand.” This later became part of the novel Dreamsnake (1978), which was rejected by the first editor who saw it, but went on to win both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. McIntyre was the third woman to receive the Hugo Award. She has also written a number of Star Trek and Star Wars novels. Visit her online at VondaNMcIntyre.com.

About George Takei

George Takei is an actor, activist, and New York Times bestselling author. He is best known for his role of Mr. Sulu in the acclaimed television and film series Star Trek. Takei has been featured in over forty films and he has made hundreds of guest-starring television appearances. He also developed the award-winning Broadway musical Allegiance. Takei is a proponent of gay rights and is a member of the Human Rights Campaign. He has also won several awards for his work on Japanese-American relations, which includes serving as Chairman Emeritus of the Japanese American National Museum's Board of Trustees; a member of the US-Japan Bridging Foundation Board of Directors; and served on the Board of the Japan-United States Friendship Commission. He is the author of three books, including his memoir To the Stars, as well as Oh Myyy! There Goes The Internet, and its sequel, Lions And Tigers And Bears: The Internet Strikes Back.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kelley on May 19, 2010

Considering it's a Star Trek novel, Entropy Effect is by no means a bad book. I can't, in good conscience call it a particularly good book. It was like an oatmeal cookie. A quick snack. I probably would have preferred chocolate chip, but I was all out and, besides, I knew what I was getting when I r......more

Goodreads review by Jim on August 27, 2024

This book started super slow. I was originally thinking this would be like a 2 star, as Sulu was portrayed kind of goofy, and Kirk was a bit off at the beginning. Things really picked up and I rather enjoyed the intrigue. Some interesting new crew members were introduced as well as a few concepts th......more

Goodreads review by Jacqie on December 13, 2017

I finished this one because it's so short- I might not have had the patience to slog through a longer version of this book. What we have here is a time-travel-paradox book. We the readers pretty much know this going in because of the book blurb. What you'll need to know: Vonda McIntye apparently real......more

Goodreads review by Jesse on May 23, 2017

Started a bit slowly but really picked up by the end.......more

Goodreads review by Mark on May 17, 2018

When it was originally published in the summer of 1981 Vonda McIntyre's book represented something of a new frontier (if you'll forgive my use of the phrase) in the Star Trek franchise. Though the second entry in Pocket Books's series of Star Trek novels, it was the first original story they publish......more

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