I can see why I didn’t take any of this up as a kit. The structure is very much not straightforward. And it’s also the story of how Kirk learned to respect and befriend Spock, and how Spock learned Kirk was something more than a skilled commander and sometime martinet.
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@Austin_Dern@blimps.xyz I think I might have been too young to grasp it properly when I first encountered it. But it's now up there as one of my favorites.
@lightspill Oh that was one of my favorite Star Trek books, one of the few I kept for possibly someday rereading when I gave away almost all my collection.
Besides enjoying the story I loved when I realized I understood its structure --- basically every story element starts in media res and then flashes back to how we got there --- and how that matched the whole time-out-of-joint premise of the book. I think it was the first time I understood how you could structure a story in a way that echoed the plot.