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Simon Hawke

Autor/a de The Romulan Prize

70+ obres 7,317 Membres 86 Ressenyes 6 preferits

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Nota de desambiguació:

(eng) Nicholas Yerkamov legally changed his name to Simon Hawke. He has also written under the pennames S.L. Hunter and J.D. Masters.

(ger) Nicholas Yerkamov änderte seinen Namen zu Simon Hawke. He has also written under the pennames S.L. Hunter and J.D. Masters.

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Obres de Simon Hawke

The Romulan Prize (1993) 559 exemplars
Blaze of Glory (1995) 397 exemplars
The Patrian Transgression (1994) 336 exemplars
The Outcast (1993) 279 exemplars
The Ivanhoe Gambit (1984) 263 exemplars
The Wizard of 4th Street (1987) 260 exemplars
The Nomad (1994) 251 exemplars
The Wizard of Whitechapel (1988) 212 exemplars
The Pimpernel Plot (1984) 206 exemplars
The Broken Blade (1995) 199 exemplars
The Timekeeper Conspiracy (1984) 196 exemplars
The Wizard of Sunset Strip (1989) 183 exemplars
The Wizard of Rue Morgue (1990) 171 exemplars
The Samurai Wizard (1991) 164 exemplars
The Zenda Vendetta (1985) 163 exemplars
The Reluctant Sorcerer (1992) 161 exemplars
A Mystery of Errors (2000) — Autor — 157 exemplars
The Khyber Connection (1986) — Autor — 154 exemplars
The Wizard of Lovecraft's Cafe (1993) 148 exemplars
The Wizard of Santa Fe (1991) 145 exemplars
The Nautilus Sanction (1985) 140 exemplars
The Dracula Caper (1988) 138 exemplars
The Argonaut Affair (1987) — Autor — 135 exemplars
The Wizard of Camelot (1993) 130 exemplars
The Nine Lives of Catseye Gomez (1992) 128 exemplars
The Iron Throne (1995) 125 exemplars
The Inadequate Adept (1993) 123 exemplars
The Slaying of the Shrew (2001) — Autor — 110 exemplars
The Ambivalent Magician (1996) 105 exemplars
Much Ado About Murder (2002) — Autor — 102 exemplars
The Lilliput Legion (1989) 102 exemplars
The Hellfire Rebellion (1990) — Autor — 98 exemplars
The Last Wizard (1997) 91 exemplars
The Six-Gun Solution (1991) 90 exemplars
War of the Gods (1982) 90 exemplars
The Cleopatra Crisis (1990) 89 exemplars
The Whims of Creation (1995) 75 exemplars
Psychodrome (1987) 71 exemplars
The Merchant of Vengeance (2003) — Autor — 65 exemplars
Batman: To Stalk a Specter (1900) 55 exemplars
The Shapechanger Scenario (1988) 48 exemplars
War (1996) 41 exemplars
Epiphany (1982) 29 exemplars
Last Communion (1981) 29 exemplars
Predator 2 (1990) 28 exemplars
Friday The 13th (1987) 28 exemplars
Fall into Darkness (1982) 24 exemplars
Jehad (1984) 21 exemplars
Clique (1982) 21 exemplars
Steele (1989) 14 exemplars
Friday The 13th Part III (1988) 14 exemplars
Journey From Flesh (1981) 13 exemplars
Killer Steele (1990) 11 exemplars
Cold Steele (1989) 11 exemplars
Friday The 13th Part II (1988) 10 exemplars
Jagged Steele (1990) 8 exemplars
Renegade Steele (1990) 7 exemplars
Sons Of Glory #1 (1992) 6 exemplars
Target Steele (1990) 5 exemplars
The Fall of a Gay King (2014) 4 exemplars
Call to Battle (1993) 4 exemplars
Blackthorn (2014) 3 exemplars
The Shade Trilogy (2015) 2 exemplars
Hamburger Heaven 1 exemplars
Timewars, Books 1-12 (1991) 1 exemplars
Fortunes Of A Fool 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Perpetual Light (1982) — Col·laborador — 99 exemplars
Alternate Gettysburgs (2002) — Col·laborador — 66 exemplars
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 7 (1981) — Col·laborador — 52 exemplars
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 12 (1986) — Col·laborador — 49 exemplars
Horrors (1866) — Col·laborador — 43 exemplars
Mob Magic (1998) — Col·laborador — 40 exemplars
Oceans of Space (2002) — Col·laborador — 35 exemplars
Chrysalis 9 (1981) — Col·laborador — 18 exemplars

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Altres noms
Yerkamov, Nicholas Valentin (name at birth)
Yermakov, Nicholas V.
Yermakov, Nicholas
Yermakov, Nick
Hunter, S. L. (pen name)
Masters, J. D. (pen name)
Data de naixement
1951-09-30
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
New York, New York, USA
Professions
science fiction and fantasy writer
Organitzacions
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Authors Guild
Premis i honors
Colorado Writer of the Year (1992)
Nota de desambiguació
Nicholas Yerkamov legally changed his name to Simon Hawke. He has also written under the pennames S.L. Hunter and J.D. Masters.

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Ressenyes

I found this a very enjoyable "episode in book form," and that's about all there is to say. It's interesting to see them try to take on real issues of cultural difference--not embarrassing little ones, but issues related to core morality.
 
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everystartrek | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Feb 3, 2023 |
This was a refreshingly new take on the "generation ship" trope, which also adds in "ambimorphs" who appear to be an early version of the Founders that appear in DS9 (though less villainous). It features a notable Romulan antagonist whose characterization goes beyond the usual BS, and unusually clever strategic hijinks. A good read.
 
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everystartrek | Jan 7, 2023 |
Some books have stories outside their own stories…personal stories. My wife got me a copy of this for my birthday some 19 years ago (along with an autographed copy of another Hawke book). I read a few pages, and then it sat on my nightstand for the next five years until we moved from Korea back to he states, and then in our library until it was lost with so many other books to soot and smoke damage from a fire in 2013. Hawke is one of a few authors as fall back on when I feel “reader’s block” creeping up on me, but this short series isn’t one of my “go to” books… mainly because I hadn’t gotten back to it after all these years. And now the error of that mystery has been corrected. It took more than half of the book before I got engaged, but I did and I did enjoy it.

Hawke says in his afterward that some might think him cheeky (paraphrased) for presuming to write about Shakespeare as a fictional character, but I agree with him that people take Shakespeare too seriously (again, paraphrasing). I don’t buy the analysis of so many… yes, so many who have based their academic careers on such analysis. I liked Hawke’s take on Shakespeare:
He knew that his medium was an ephemeral one and he regarded it accordingly. He wrote his works to be performed, not deconstructed in a college classroom or analyzed with pathological precision for every possible nuance and interpretation. He understood, without a doubt, that his was a collaborative medium, that actors would bring their own contributions to the table, that plays were a dynamic group effort of the entire company, not a showcase for an individual writer's talent and/or ego.
Students who are forced to sit through agonizing lectures by monotonous professors who drone on and on about iambic pentameter and heroic couplets never truly learn to appreciate the Bard, and more's the pity, because Shakespeare himself would have been aghast to learn that his words were putting young captive audiences to sleep. He wanted, more than anything, to make them laugh, or weep, or rage ... to make them feel, for that was why Elizabethan audiences went to the theatre.
IMO, Shakespeare is far better seen and heard than read.

Okay, probably not just my opinion.
… (més)
 
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Razinha | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Oct 28, 2021 |
[I received a copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.]

When I read the description of this book, I was looking forward to it. A high fantasy story with intrigue, mystery, unrequited love, murderous plots, etc. -- sign me up! And while those elements are present here, I found them hard to follow and truly enjoy.

Here's why: everything is overshadowed by gratuitous sex scenes. There are over 30 chapters in this book and I think it averages about one scene per chapter. Furthermore, most of those scenes are the result of compulsion, traditions involving dubious levels of consent, or manipulation (one character openly admits to performing an act with the hope the recipient would be more agreeable to a request). And there isn't anything steamy or romantic about these scenes--they are entirely about 'getting off'. While the story elements that are interrupted by these scenes have promise, they get lost behind all of this.

I also had a hard time reconciling a few things about this society. The largest of these was the way in which characters of all levels of the social hierarchy seem to engage in gay sexual relations with reckless abandon but we suddenly learn it's highly illegal and punishable by death. And although it's punishable by death, a perfectly acceptable alternate sentence is forced gay prostitution--that seems contradictory and hardly something such a society would be likely to condone. Add to that the fact that no one seems to flinch at compelling people to engage in sexual acts using magic or at the suggestion that gang rape is a perfectly acceptable mechanism for dealing with people who are uncooperative, and this book finds its way into the realm of incredibly problematic.

I struggled for a bit on how to rate this story. While I find some of the content questionable and I feel like it was constructed in such a way that the story is secondary to these problematic elements, I do feel like the actual storyline has promise and could make for a great novel if the sex (and related content) was scaled back. So I'm giving this a hesitant two stars and a very skeptical benefit of the doubt.
… (més)
 
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crtsjffrsn | Aug 27, 2021 |

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Obres
70
També de
11
Membres
7,317
Popularitat
#3,342
Valoració
½ 3.5
Ressenyes
86
ISBN
172
Llengües
8
Preferit
6

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