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Subject: Price of the Phoenix
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 17:51:29 EDT
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From: Anne Marie Quint {/amqueue} <quint@RED.RUTGERS.EDU>


     Date: 11 Oct 1985 10:28:32 GMT (Friday)
     From: Keith Dale <kdale@minet-vhn-em.arpa>
     Subject: Matter transmission
     
     One of the Star Trek novels, Price of the Phoenix by [two women
     authors whose names escape me], deals with the problem of identical
     copies of a person coexisting ("Will the real James Kirk please
     stand up.").  The story is done very well and shows (to me, at
     least) that the authors must have had discussions similar to that
     raging on the net lately.  It does get involved, even (gasp!) makes
     you think (:-), and should be a good way to gather more fuel for
     this debate.
     
     Also, I thought it was a good read, but then I like most everything
     that I read.  How about some criticisms?  Am I wrong to like it?
     (:-)
                                                  Keith

     I sit here blithely replying, and find that I can only remember one of
the author's names: Jacqueline Lichtenberg, currently of Sime/Gen fame. The
other author wrote a Star Trek fact book in the mid-70's I think, in which
case it would be Joan Winston, but I havent been able to find these books
in my library for a couple of years; I think I loaned them to someone and
forgot who. (as usual) There is another book in the series, Fate of the
Phoenix, but I cant remember if it came first or second... I will have to
find these books! I was always under the impression that yet another book
was going to come out, but it never has. I guess Lichtenberg is too busy
with her Sime/Gen universe to write StarTrek anymore... pity. 

     I liked it too, but then I am a rabid Trekkie (and proud of it!), so
my opinion is not necessarily worthwhile, and certainly not objective!!!

Ready to Energize
/amqueue

ps: a good test to see if you are a confirmed trekkie: do you walk into
elevators and shout "Bridge" as the doors close?


Do you answer the telephone "Enterprise, Spock here"?

Can you recite all the lines of all the characters from the original tag 
scene from "Trouble With Tribbles"?

Can you sing along with the opening music?
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