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Simon Hawke

Auteur van The Romulan Prize

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Ontwarringsbericht:

(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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Werken van Simon Hawke

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

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Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Yerkamov, Nicholas Valentin (name at birth)
Yermakov, Nicholas V.
Yermakov, Nicholas
Yermakov, Nick
Hunter, S. L. (pen name)
Masters, J. D. (pen name)
Geboortedatum
1951-09-30
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
New York, New York, USA
Beroepen
science fiction and fantasy writer
Organisaties
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Authors Guild
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Colorado Writer of the Year (1992)
Ontwarringsbericht
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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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 | 1 andere bespreking | 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.
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Razinha | 4 andere besprekingen | 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.
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crtsjffrsn | Aug 27, 2021 |

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Werken
70
Ook door
11
Leden
7,317
Populariteit
#3,342
Waardering
½ 3.5
Besprekingen
86
ISBNs
172
Talen
8
Favoriet
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