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    Starhunt

    By David Gerrold

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    A prequel in the space adventure series by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author.
     
    In the prequel to Voyage of the Star Wolf, the starship Roger Burlingame is obsolete as it drifts through space on the brink of collapse. Yet, as its demoralized crew hopes for reassignment and its weary captain counts the days before his promotion to a desk job, a fanatical first officer named Korie refuses to succumb to apathy. He believes he has seen the enemy—no more than a blip on a screen—and he’s sure he can defeat them.
     
    Korie knows he will need these men—even if they hate him—to hold the Burlingame together until the final confrontation. But as they drift ever deeper into the oblivion, following quarry that may be only a figment of their first officer’s imagination, the crew must decide whether Korie is a savior or a madman—and whether he is leading them to glory or certain annihilation.
     
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJan 28, 2014
    ISBN9781939529497
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    David Gerrold

    David Gerrold is an award-winning author and screenwriter. He wrote numerous books, including the War Against the Chtorr series, the Star Wolf series, and the novelette The Martian Child, which won both Hugo and Nebula Awards and was later adapted into a film. He also wrote the script for the original Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles." 

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    • 4/5
      This is a story line which I've seen several times. It closely parallels the plot from the movie "The Enemy Below" starring Robert Mitchum and Curd Jurgens, which remains one of my favorite WWII war movies. A similar plot appeared during the first season of Star Trek TOS as "Balance of Terror," which was one of my favorite episodes from that series.Some elements of the story seemed a little contrived, but the book remains memorable, more than thirty years later. I think that one of the things that impressed me about the book and the earlier stories I mentioned was that most of the story tension comes not from action, but from the tension of fighting an enemy that, initially at least, may or may not exist. As the stories develop, the tension is between two capable foes who are hunting each other. It takes a skilled writer to pull that off.
    • 4/5

      This is an old fashion story of combat. The story has elements of submarine warfare. The Star Wolf series reflects Gerrold's contention that, due to the distances involved, space battles would be more like submarine hunts than the dogfights usually portrayed—in most cases the ships doing battle wouldn't even be able to see each other. Storyline is similar to Glen Cook's Passage at Arms,and the Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk. David Gerrold is able to give the reader the intimate experience the claustrophobia,and tension that are the essence men locked in a slow moving but desperate battle with a superior enemy.

      The book is part 1 of 4 books is the Star Wolf series. Each book is a complete story in and of itself. At the actor suggests reading then in the following order Star Hunt also known as Yesterdays Children, The voyage of the Star Wolf, The Middle of Nowhere, and the final book in the series Blood and fire.