{"id":50736,"date":"2024-02-06T20:55:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T04:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=50736"},"modified":"2024-02-06T20:55:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T04:55:26","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-mission-to-horatius-by-mack-reynolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/02\/06\/%f0%9f%93%9a-mission-to-horatius-by-mack-reynolds\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; Mission to Horatius by Mack Reynolds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1043,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/87f750f9-9811-43cd-8484-0c8f49736810&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>10\/2024 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/87f750f9-9811-43cd-8484-0c8f49736810\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is not a good Star Trek book. The Enterprise, with a crew at risk of what\u2019s essentially violent cabin fever, is dispatched to the Horatius system to investigate a distress call. There, they find three planets: one with a stereotypical Native American civilization (\u201cbackward savages\u201d, of course), one with a mid-20th century American civilization, and one with space Nazis. Oh, and there\u2019s a \u201cB story\u201d involving a plague-infested rat loose on the ship. So, no, as a Star Trek adventure, there\u2019s not much to recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>However: It\u2019s the <em>first<\/em> officially licensed Star Trek novel, and therefore gets a bit of leeway\u2026or at least recognition that the treklit landscape was far different (nonexistent, actually) in 1968 than it is today. Not really recommended unless you\u2019re a collector, but if you are and can track it down (especially if you can find an original rather than the 1999 reprint), it\u2019s a quick read and kind of fun to see where the print side of Trek began.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_2073-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Mission to Horatius\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-50737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_2073-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_2073-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_2073-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_2073-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_2073-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not really recommended unless you\u2019re a collector, but if you are and can track it down, it\u2019s a quick read and kind of fun to see where the print side of Trek began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049,2047],"tags":[5862,4097],"class_list":["post-50736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","category-star-trek","tag-mack-reynolds","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}