Título: Troublesome Minds: Star Trek: The Original Series
Autor: Dave Galanter
Sinopse: While exploring the unmapped frontier, the Starship Enterprise responds to a distress call from an unknown ship. Captain James T. Kirk turns first contact into a threat of interstellar war -- by saving the life of a man left to die by his own people. Berlis, colony leader of a telepathic race calling themselves the Isitri, claims not to know why those from his homeworld want him dead. Kirk wants to believe him, but it matters little since the damage is already done: the Enterprise can neither leave the stranger to die nor turn him over to those who would kill him without trial. A fragile being, Berlis seems harmless and perhaps even believes himself to be. But his people say he cannot live among them: his telepathy is so strong they lose their wills to his. Self-defense leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy of disaster when he acts to keep his people from imposing their death sentence. The same fear that forces the Isitri to murder one of their own drives the neighboring Odib to genocide, for every time an "alpha mind" dominates the Isitri, the Odib pay the price in their own blood. With Spock becoming erratic under Berlis' thrall, and the Isitri begging Kirk to allow them to destroy the man who threatens their waking existence, all seems lost when Berlis makes his way back to Isitra, and an entire world falls to his whims. As the Isitri now ready their fleet to protect Berlis from an Odib onslaught, Kirk must either find a way to wrench billions from the grip of one man, or be responsible for the destruction of two planets.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Troublesome Minds: Star Trek: The Original Series”, de Dave Galanter, publicado pela editora Pocket Books, em 2009 e com 384 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Pocket Books
Páginas: 384
Ano: 2009
Edição:
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 1439101558
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Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Pocket Books oferecem uma experiência de leitura marcada por narrativas que transitam entre o suspense, o thriller psicológico e a fantasia urbana, com frequentes incursões em histórias de amor e dramas pessoais. As sinopses sugerem um catálogo que valoriza personagens em conflitos intensos, seja contra ameaças externas ou dilemas internos, com ritmo geralmente ágil e tom que varia do sombrio ao emocionalmente carregado. Há obras que exploram desde investigações criminais e tramas de vingança até romances contemporâneos e fantasia sobrenatural, criando um contraste entre o realismo tenso e o imaginário fantástico.
