While searching for the U.S.S. Huxley, missing for more than 10 years, the Enterprise^TM stumbles across a forgotten colony of humans on a planet called Rampart, where fiction and works of the imagination of any kind are considered a heinous crime. A survey team beams aboard the ship to search for "contraband," and the crew are drawn immediately into a vicious civil war between Rampart's mind police and a band of determined rebels.

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1 hour and 31 minutes
Author

Keith Sharee
Narrator

Jonathan Frakes
Audible release date

August 23, 2000
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English
Publisher

Simon & Schuster Audio
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B0000547G6
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Original recording
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Listening Length	1 hour and 31 minutes
Author	Keith Sharee
Narrator	Jonathan Frakes
Audible.com Release Date	August 23, 2000
Publisher	Simon & Schuster Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Original recording
Language	English
ASIN	B0000547G6
Best Sellers Rank	#141,300 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #2,360 in Space Opera Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #2,539 in Hard Science Fiction (Books) #8,697 in Space Operas

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The Mirror Thief

Sequel to Fahrenheit 451...sweet

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 10, 2014

I really liked it. It was a good dystopian exercise in the guise of a Star Trek yarn. Very cool. It gets pretty wild at times but I could handle it. If you are looking for typical space opera its not happening here. You could almost think of this as a decent sequel to Fahrenheit 451. Troi plays a big role here and that's fine with me. Picard is not very forceful, poor devil even gets his brain stolen temporarily, they could have used Kirk!! Ha. I liked the uniqueness of the novel and while it goes way out there now and then, well Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 did too...fer real!!! Try this for something different, kudos to the author...would love to read some more of his stuff if there is any.

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Kindle Customer

Improper thinking will be punished

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 2, 2001

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 demise....it's was very exciting to see how Picard escaped the mind wipe intact. The scenes with the all knowing "one eye" cameras/assault units were the best. Especially when Geordi and Wes had to figure out how they worked.
It would have played well as a television episode. A lot of the novels are very often superior to the TV scripts and this was one of them.

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Mike W

Short

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 30, 2013

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The story was good, but it was too short. Normally an audio CD would be several hours long - this was just a few hrs.... The story was good though, just too short.

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Ben Riddle

Standing up for creativity!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 23, 2001

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 movement of individuals, much like that found in the movie "Demolition Man", who seek to restore the imagination to its proper place of value. This story is an excellent take on censorship and First Amendment issues.

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CJ Marsicano

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

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 21, 1999

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.

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orbops

OK TNG book focused on Deanna Troi

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 3, 2020

Since it was a Deanna Troi story, normally I wouldn't have bothered to read it since her character always seems to inconsistently utilize her Betazoid abilities - but I got this free from my brother in-law who was cleaning out his collection. The story itself plays out as a typical TNG episode, and from the main characters actions and motivations, you can practically deduce in which season this book was written - in this case it turns out it was written in 1990 before season 3 came out.

The story itself stretches the imagination a little bit with the forgotten colony of humans on Rampart. Their technology seemed way to advanced for a forgotten colony that departed Earth 200 years ago. The world building culture and society created for Rampart was well done. I was a little surprised that Deanna was so knowledgeable about Earth mythology in her interactions with the Rampartians. It's a shame that the only real character development came from the two other crew members needed to move the plot forward.

Will I read any more? Well, the brother in-law gave me about 5 more TNG books, so I'll continue to read these in-between novels I'm interested in reading.

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Siskoid

Not quite literature

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 13, 2000

While I thought the 1984-ish culture was an interesting (and impossible) one, the story gets bogged down in psychadelics as Troi and others hallucinate mythological creatures. The surprise at the end makes for a good (and again, highly unlikely) climax, and the supporting characters are fun, if superfluous. A good little romp, but you'll have to suspend disbelief a little more than usual.

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James Yanni

Seriously flawed.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 25, 2002

Which is a shame, because the basic idea had potential: Star Trek meets Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451". And the writing wasn't completely hopeless; as the story progressed, I did find myself caring what happened next, and moved by the fate of the characters. But there were too many flaws for a high rating; the entire subplot of Deanna Troi's visions/hallucinations was superfluous and pointless, and the concept that the planetary culture that the Enterprise was in conflict with could have provided as much of a challenge as they did required too much supension of disbelief for my taste.
Not the worst Star Trek book I've ever read by a long shot, but definitely on the weak end of the scale.

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