Inferno

by Judith Reeves-Stevens and Garfield Reeves-Stevens

Book Overview

The True Reckoning is only seconds away, and only the crew of Deep Space Nine can prevent it from happening. But the Pah-wraiths and their followers, Gul Dukat and the merciless Grigori, will do... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671024035
• ISBN13: 9780671024031
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Time Travel Headache Style

Time travel paradoxes give you a headache? Then this book is not for you. However, if you like good, old-fashioned, this-happend-already-we're-going-through-it-again-because-you-killed-your-grandpa time travel headaches, then you should loooooove this book. I won't give anything away, but the ending will leave you wondering, "What was that all about?" Anyway. Long live Judith and Garfeild! LL & P, Trekkers!

The best Trek books I've ever read

Amazingly, someone other than Peter David has written a series of Trek books that are just as good, if not better than, their source material. This trilogy is hands-down enjoyable, with a truly epic feel to it and some great foreshadowing of events that take place in season 7. This story picks up after the end of DS9 but quickly jumps back to season 6 and from there to an alternate reality that is chilling. One of the best portrayals of Weyoun I've ever seen! The new characters, esp. Arla, are interesting and well fleshed out. If you like deep plots (sometimes almost too deep, I admit) and strong characterization, I urge you to try this series.

Best Trek books in years

Well, that was a fun ride. This trilogy is the best Trek prose story in years. Please let the Reeves-Stevens write more Trek. This trilogy feels much more "epic" in scope than most Trek series, even the other multi-book series. The multiple time jumps are quite a feat of editing, and the way everything finally falls together reminded me a bit of the end of Back to the Future II. The writers and characters do a wonderful, dizzying tap dance around past events, creating a nice interlocking puzzle that must be unravelled. If you've been avoiding the Trek books due to the feeling that they were getting repetitive, give these a try. If you've been following them all along, be prepared for a wake-up call. MILLENIUM raises the bar on what Pocket should be publishing from now on.

Great.

A great end to the Millennium books. I really liked it. I would like to write a very long review but then I would give away the plot, so i'm just going to say GREAT!

Terrific Trilogy

When I first began the Millenium trilogy, a scant two weeks ago I was a little disappointed. The first book has so much going on from so many vantage points that I didn't know how it related to either the overall premise or the forthcoming continuing novels. Boy was I surprised by Book II which at some points reminded me of Stephen King's The Stand where the DS9 crew is reduced to watching helplessly as their universe past/present/future crumbles at the hands of Kai Weyoun. Book III---Inferno goes even further because it tackles what is at the heart of understanding The Prophets, the Celestial Temple, Capt. Sisko's existence, the whole DS9 mythos which boils down to non-linear time. The concept of time having to be first explained to the Prophets and then their comprehending it enough so that they can teach/reveal/manipulate Sisko that what is always has been, what shall be is and that there is no what and that there always has been a thought that is staggering for a tv series/serial novel to accomplish. But the authors pull it off with an aplomb and yet a technical knowledge of physics and technobabble that makes it all comprehensible. It's good to see that the DS9 crew all experience different ideas of faith, belief in whether or not the Prophets are true "Gods" or merely interferring/insane aliens because it fosters a belief that all beliefs should be respected. One man's religion being anothers science. Even at the most desperate of times, Sisko and crew fight against the Pah-Wraiths destructive intent but never they're right to believe, a critical distinction. And the crew, particularly Sisko and to a heavy science bent Jadzia Dax and the surprising twist character of Commander Arla continuously question the Prophets, their pre-destined path for him and the world of Bajor that allows this final installment to securely lock with the two before into a terrific, wryly funny, dark, poignant story about faith and how the universe is bigger than any one crew. The DS9 crew (including Quark (who is both heroic and understandibly terrified, Nog (a boy/future Captain who risks literally everything to becming one of teh progenitors of all Bajoran faith with admiral Jean Luc Picard and the thief/vamp Vash, the hilariously dark Garak and Rom (who Garak secretly suspects is a master Ferengi scientist hiding as a dimwit)hurled through time, non-time, space, life and death have an intrinsic bond of group humanity/integrity/humor that makes them rival the original Star Trek Enterprise crew. A nice point about these novels is that it occurs a year in DS9 time before the final show so lots of plot points and foreshadowings are filled in to make the time spent with this crew even more rich to the serious fan. I am a serious Sisko fan, Avery Brooks fan, from way before DS9 but he embodies a captain, a father, a man, and to some degree though it isn't overtly stated, a Black man (the thought of Sisko being a discriminated against sci-fi writer of the early 20th c