Gulliver's Fugitives

By William J. Baumol

Book Overview

While on a mission to find a missing starship, Captain Picard and his crew discover a forgotten colony of humans who consider fiction and works of imagination the ultimate crime. Suddenly the crew is caught in the middle of a civil war between the supporters of imagination and the ruthless mind police.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671741438
• ISBN13: 9780671741433
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Thought provoking in a different sense

Think about your closest friends; are they real to you? If you didn't know them in the first place, would they still be real? Now think about your favorite fiction characters; are they real? Think of a world without them; would YOU be real?After Troi makes an intriguing contact with an "alien" life form from another dimension, thinking that this may be related to the disappearance of USS Huxley a long time ago, Picard decides...

Improper thinking will be punished

When I read this NG novel I expected another run of the mill story with the politically correct message. I was very surprised and wrong about my assesment by the back cover. In this one any creativity or wrong thinking is fatal. A lost starship crashes on this planet only for it's captain to survive. His mind was wiped of any reference to Starfleet and his former life. While I know the major characters would not meet their...

Standing up for creativity!

I believe that as consumers of mass media, we all value our freedom to choose to read, watch, or listen to whatever we desire. But what would happen if the planet we call Earth became a totalitarian state where the expression of creativity is utterly forbidden? That is the premise of "Gulliver's Fugitives."In the first Next Generation audio book ever made, read by Jonathan Frakes (Riker), the away team encounters an underground...

A brilliant anti-censorship tale in ST:TNG style.

Some of the best Star Trek episodes were usually 20th century social commentary thinly disguised as 23rd/24th century science fiction. Gulliver's Fugitives continues that same ST storytelling as social commentary tradition.

This book is wonderful. I highly recommend it.

For all of us who have ever been persecuted for being different, or fighting for the things we truly love, this is the book for you. It demonstrates perfectly the philosophy behind Star Trek, that of Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations, and how a deadly problem can be overcome by such diversity. It also demonstrates the power of myth, of every culture, and how it can be inspirational even in an extremely advanced...