A Fury Scorned
A dying sun threatens the USS Enterprise with total destruction!

A Fury Scorned is a Pocket TNG novel – #43 in the numbered series – written by Pamela Sargent and George Zebrowski. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in .

Summary 
From the book jacket
With their sun about to go nova, the people of Epictetus III face annihilation. Although the  has come to lead the rescue operation, there is no way to evacuate a population of over twenty million, leaving Captain Picard to make an agonizing decision. Should he try to salvage the planet's children, its greatest leaders and thinkers, or its irreplaceable archaeological treasures? No matter what he decides, millions must be sacrificed – unless another solution can be found.

With time running out, Data proposes a revolutionary scientific experiment that could save all of Epictetus III, or doom both the planet and the Enterprise as well.

Background information 
 This is the first Star Trek novel from the partnership of Sargent and Zebrowski.
 An extract from this novel appeared in .

Characters 
Jean-Luc Picard
William T. Riker
Data
Beverly Crusher
Deanna Troi
Worf
Geordi La Forge
Alexander Rozhenko
Guinan
Miles O'Brien
Jeremy Curtis
Lxiti Lonsz
Raul Zender
Ganesa Methta  Ensign.
Pietro Barbieri  Admiral.
Chang Jun Shing  Ensign.
Anita Obrion  Lieutenant.
Yeoman Parwiz Bodonchor  Yeoman.
Hughes Holman  Ensign.
Jacques Bulero  Lieutenant.
Iris Liang  Lieutenant Commander.

References 
Epictetus III; Federation Council; Starfleet

External link 
 

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