Book Description
2239. Now a diplomat for the United Federation of Planets, Spock agrees to a bonding with Saavik. Plans for the consummation of the pair's union are thrown off course when Spock receives a top-secret communication that lures him into the heart of the Romulan empire. Enmeshed in the treacherous political intrigues of the Romulan capital, Spock must use all his logic and experience to survive a crisis that will ultimately determine the fate of empires!
About the Author
Josepha Sherman is an author and folklorist whose novels, besides Vulcan's Forge, include The Shattered Oath and Forging the Runes. She lives in Riverdale, New York.
Vulcan's Heart FROM THE PUBLISHER
2239. Now a diplomat for the United Federation of Planets, Spock agrees to a bonding with Saavik. Plans for the consummation of the pair's union are thrown off course when Spock receives a top-secret communication that lures him into the heart of the Romulan empire. Enmeshed in the treacherous political intrigues of the Romulan capital, Spock must use all his logic and experience to survive a crisis that will ultimately determine the fate of empires!
SYNOPSIS
About the Author:
For the past 16 years, Susan Shwartz has been a financial writer and
editor at various long-suffering Wall Street firms. For the past 20
years, she has written, edited, and reviewed fantasy and science fiction.
Her most recent books are the historical fantasies Cross and Crescent and
Shards of Empire (Tor), which are set in eleventh-century and
twelfth-century Byzantium, including the First Crusade. Her other books
include The Grail of Hearts, Silk Roads and Shadows, and, with Andre
Norton, Imperial Lady and Empire of the Eagle (all from Tor). Her
anthologies include the two volumes of Sisters in Fantasy (ROC) and two
volumes of Arabesques (Avon). Previously, she and Josepha Sherman
co-wrote the critically acclaimed Star Trek novel Vulcan's Forge. Her own
stories for anthologies on a saint and a barrow wight, T.E. Lawrence and a
vampire bey, a werewolf on the Children's Crusade, and Hillary Rodham
Clinton in Valhalla. She is currently working on a hard-SF retelling of
the story of Lord Jim. She has published more than 70 pieces of short
fiction and has been nominated for the Nebula five times, the Hugo twice,
and the World Fantasy Award, the Philip K. Dick, and the Edgar once each.
She has written reviews for various SF publications and The New York
Times, Vogue, and a variety of other places. A lapsed academic, she has a
PhD in English from Harvard University, enjoys writing polemical letters
to major newspapers, and spends entirely too much time on the Nets,
reading military history, shopping for shoes, or going to the opera. She
lives in Forest Hills, New York. Her work has been published in England,
Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, Poland, the Czech Republic, Ukraine,
Russia, and the Republic of China.
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
Focusing primarily on Spock's love life and his superhuman control when confronted by his own hot-blooded emotions, this newest entry in the Star Trek canon should delight romance fans while leaving cold those SF fans not wholeheartedly invested in the series' characters. Spock finally bonds with his adopted Vulcan love, Saavik. As logic dictates, the couple then skip the honeymoon and go back to their respective ships. Fifteen years later, Spock, now a diplomat in the service of the United Federation of Planets, travels secretly to the planet Romulus to aid an honorable old enemy, Charvanek, who has warned the Vulcan of a plan by Romulus's power-mad Praetor Dralath to destroy peaceful Klingon and Star Fleet colonies. Romulus is a highly illegal place for Spock to be, and Captain Uhuru, head of Star Fleet's security agency, sends Saavik undercover to Romulus to aid her beloved and to bring him quietly back to Federation Space. Weighty matters of state are dangerously ignored by both Spock and Saavik entering pon farr, a state in which it is difficult to think of anything but making violent love to one's mate. In the end, Spock and Saavik are saved, more by the Romulan concept of honor than by Vulcan ideals of order and logic. This not quite otherworldly novel features cameos by Jean-Luc Picard, Bones McCoy, Beverly Crusher and Tasha Yar. (July) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
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