Doctor Omega
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That is interesting. I may have not been fair on it. Your reply prompted me to go and download a sample of the beginning of the book on kindle, to see if I misjudged it.... Only to find that TIME FOR YESTERDAY is not on kindle, but YESTERDAY'S SON is. Go figure! 
If I see it around I might well give it a second attempt.
I did love the novelisation of STAR TREK:THE MOTION PICTURE, which seemed to suggest to me Roddenberry was a much better writer of prose than he was of teleplays, but rumours have swirled for years that the very dependable Alan Dean Foster ghost wrote it, which would do nothing to demolish Harlan Ellison's claim that Gene "couldn't write for sour owl poop!"
On which note, I loved Harlan's huge essay at the start of his original script book of City, laying brutally into the Great Bird - and also Joel Engel's biography of Roddenberry. These two books and Grace Lee Whitney's biography delve into some harsher realities - and Gene does not come off too well in any of them.
If I see it around I might well give it a second attempt.
I did love the novelisation of STAR TREK:THE MOTION PICTURE, which seemed to suggest to me Roddenberry was a much better writer of prose than he was of teleplays, but rumours have swirled for years that the very dependable Alan Dean Foster ghost wrote it, which would do nothing to demolish Harlan Ellison's claim that Gene "couldn't write for sour owl poop!"
On which note, I loved Harlan's huge essay at the start of his original script book of City, laying brutally into the Great Bird - and also Joel Engel's biography of Roddenberry. These two books and Grace Lee Whitney's biography delve into some harsher realities - and Gene does not come off too well in any of them.
