Noises in the Attic
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| Title: | Noises in the Attic |
| Publisher: | Bristol Star Fleet Registry |
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| Author(s): | Rosemary Senior |
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| Illustrator(s): | Jim Mortimore, Mark Whitfield, and Simon Lewis |
| Date(s): | April 1990 |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TNG |
| Language: | English |
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Noises in the Attic is a gen 60-page Star Trek: TNG novel by Rosemary Senior.
It was illustrated by Simon Lewis, Mark Whitfield, and Jim Mortimore.
Summary
From the 1990 flyer: "When Captain Picard starts hearing bumps in the night, he wonders whether he has bats in his belfry. Strange new alien lifeforms, colonists and renegades all add to the fun, but the Captain and crew are more than equal to the task."
Sample Interior
Reactions and Reviews
I cannot recommend this zine too highly. (I should say, though, that I am very new to zines so that may not mean very much!) So far the only others I've read are the 4 Make It So issues which impressed me to no end, especially the stories by Lorraine Goodison and Karen Sparks. So sending for Noises in the Attic was rather an experiment to see what else there was, one which I'm glad I tried!The story begins with two mysteries, that of the strange noises keeping Picard awake at night and that of various incidents of stolen food. A race of owl-Uke aliens turn out to be the culprits. The Enterprise's present mission is to deliver a group of terraformers to their new planet - Gaia. This is complicated by the discovery of a vessel in trouble, a group of refugees from their warring planet Exos IV. While their ship is being repaired they are accommodated on board and naturally mix with the terraformers. The resulting problems and how they are solved form the theme of the story.
One thing I really liked about this zine was that it didn't concentrate on one character. The action takes place on board and everyone gets a look in. To my mind one of the weaknesses of a few of the books is that they concentrate almost wholly on one character to the exclusion of the others. I've just finished Fortune's Light (TNG novel No. 15) [1] and quite honestly if you're not a Riker fanatic or mad about baseball then it's quite heavy going! Others might disagree, of course...
Humour is very much to the fore in Noises in the Attic also, with some lovely images. I had no trouble imagining Worf 'marching' down the corridor having decided that it was better to take his annoyance out on the holodeck than tear off the arm of an offending Ensign! Likewise the vision of Picard 'sprawled on the floor amidst shattered crockery, biscuits and feathers' had me chuckling away...
I must praise the artwork in this zine, too; the cover is particularly good, and various other pictures show members of the crew and the Antillicans, All in all an excellent story, nicely written, lots of humour and well worth a look. I for one hope that Rosemary Senior intends to write more. [2]