Is there a book concept that you just knew had to be bad, but wasn't? A book based on a totally preposterous idea, that made sense? A story that just couldn't be good, but was?
I know of one such book. It was
Ishmael written by Barbara Hambly.
This book had the insane concept of mixing the worlds of the original Star Trek universe with the 1960's short lived TV show Here Comes the Brides.
This is a completely batcrap crazy notion. It simply cannot work!
But it does. It is one of my favorite ST:TOS novels. And it certainly is "novel".
Here is the synopsis from
Wikipedia
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Star Trek novel Ishmael has Spock traveling back to the time and place of Here Come the Brides after discovering a Klingon plot to destroy the Federation by killing Aaron Stempel (spelled Stemple in the book) before he could thwart an attempted 19th-century alien invasion of Earth. During most of the story, Spock has lost his memory and is cared for by Stempel, who passes him off as his nephew "Ishmael" and helps him hide his alien origins. At the end of the story, Spock discovers that Stempel is one of his mother's ancestors, which ties in nicely, since Mark Lenard also played Spock's father Sarek in episodes of the original Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as several of the Star Trek movies.
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Do you have a least likely book, that you loved?