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A review by octavia_cade
Star Trek 2 by James Blish
3.0
Zippy, enjoyable read, as eight episodes from the original Star Trek are turned into short stories. This volume covers some of the best episodes as well - "Space Seed" and "The City on the Edge of Forever" included.
I was reading, yesterday, the novelisation of The Empire Strikes Back, which I gave two stars. And I was wondering, as I read today, why I find the Blish retellings more entertaining than the Star Wars novelisations. Both are fairly thin, not digging that far below what was onscreen, and I think in the end it comes down to length. Each Blish story runs about 15 pages, representing 40 odd minutes of television programme, whereas the movie retellings are about three times the screen length and about 13 times the page length. It doesn't match up, and it seems that in the absence of depth I have an increased appreciation for pace.
I was reading, yesterday, the novelisation of The Empire Strikes Back, which I gave two stars. And I was wondering, as I read today, why I find the Blish retellings more entertaining than the Star Wars novelisations. Both are fairly thin, not digging that far below what was onscreen, and I think in the end it comes down to length. Each Blish story runs about 15 pages, representing 40 odd minutes of television programme, whereas the movie retellings are about three times the screen length and about 13 times the page length. It doesn't match up, and it seems that in the absence of depth I have an increased appreciation for pace.