The Unsettling Stars

Written by Alan Dean Foster

Narrated by Robert Petkoff

An original novel based on the thrilling Star Trek movies directed by J.J. Abrams!

Taking place in an alternate timeline created when the Starship Kelvin was destroyed by a Romulan invader from the future, this bold new novel follows Captain James T. Kirk and an inexperienced crew commandeering a repaired U.S.S. Enterprise out of spacedock for a simple shakedown cruise. When a distress call comes in, the Enterprise must aid a large colony ship of alien refugees known as the Perenorean, who are under siege by an unknown enemy. But Kirk and his crew will find that the situation with the peaceful Perenorean is far more complicated than they bargained for, and the answers as to why they were attacked in the first place unfold in the most insidious of ways…

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Release date: Apr 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781797105048

Alan Dean Foster

Alan Dean Foster’s work to date includes excursions into hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He has also written numerous nonfiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving and produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as Star Wars, the first three Alien films, Alien Nation, and The Chronicles of Riddick. Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first Star Trek movie. His novel Shadowkeep was the first ever book adaptation of an original computer game. In addition to publication in English his work has been translated into more than fifty languages and has won awards in Spain and Russia. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first work of science fiction ever to do so.

Reviews for The Unsettling Stars

[littlet1261 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Held my interest, barely. Story could've been a lot shorter.

[Diane Severson Mori · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This could’ve made a very interesting short story. Or an episode for tv, but it was dragged into a full length novel. Listening to the audio made it more entertaining, mostly because the narrator is adept at mimicking the Original Series characters’ speech patterns, which made it amusing. And on that note, other than a few mentions (too many, if you ask me) of Spock’s refugee status, and his relationship with Uhura, the characters were basically identical TOS and Kelvin timeline.

Also the “rescue” was basically a “Deus ex Macchina”.

The writing is not bad per se, just boring and nothing very special.