Vintage 1989 The New Star Trek Novel - The Abode Of Life - Paperback Book - By Lee Correy - Shop Stock Room Find. Released by Titan Books in 1989 and is based on the Star Trek The Original Series television program.The citizens of Mercan cannot conceive of worlds beyond their own. Their sun, Mercaniad, is prone to deadly, radioactive flare-ups, and the Mercans have organized their life around the need to survive the Ordeal - until a strange visitor appears from out of nowhere... The Enterprise, badly crippled and in desperate need of repairs, must seek help from a people who cannot believe in its existence. Mercaniad is about to blow, and James Kirk faces an impossible choice: to attack the sun itself and save his ship and crew - or let a people live in peace, in the only world they know.. Shop Stock Room Find. Discovered in the stock room of a closed down shop with a whole host of other books and annuals from a similar era. All orders received before 4.00pm Monday to Fridays are shipped the same day