In my last thread I asked your opinions of a few series. Most of the series didn't get the best reviews. I want to read some ST books that get lots of good reviews, so I thought I would try a different question. What are your favorite Star Trek books of any series? I really enjoyed "A Stitch in Time," by Andrew J. Robinson. "Destiny," and "Cold Equations," by David Mach. "The Buried age," by CLB. To name a few.
TOS: Ex Machina Vanguard: Reap the Whirlwind Challenger: Gateways: Chainmail The Lost Era: Serpents Among the Ruins The Lost Era: The Art of the Impossible TNG: The Buried Age TNG: Vendetta TNG: Imzadi TNG: Q-Squared DS9: A Stitch in Time DS9: Avatar DS9: Mission: Gamma: Twilight Beyer's entire Voyager run so far, from Full Circle to Protectors, especially Children of the Storm NF: Captain's Table: Once Burned NF: Stone & Anvil SCE: Wildfire Titan: Over a Torrent Sea Articles of the Federation Destiny Typhon Pact: Plagues of Night / Raise the Dawn The Fall: The Crimson Shadow
Hmm. Let's see if I can narrow this down to a top ten or so... Nope, I can't. Failed. But I do have some top standouts: In no particular order: - Spock's World by Diane Duane - Destiny trilogy by David Mack (cheating, I know) - DSN: The Never-Ending Sacrifice by Una McCormack - The Fall: The Crimson Shadow by Una McCormack - Articles of the Federation by Keith R.A. DeCandido - Vanguard: Reap the Whirlwind by David Mack - Crucible: McCoy - Provenance of Shadows by David R. George III - Mirror Universe: The Sorrows of Empire/Rise Like Lions by David Mack (cheating again) - Typhon Pact: Plagues of Night/Raise the Dawn by David R. George III (yet more cheating) - The Captain's Daughter by Peter David - TNG: Vendetta by Peter David - S.C.E.: Wildfire by David Mack - DSN: A Stitch in Time by Andrew J. Robinson Honorable mention to Q Squared by Peter David; The Fall: A Ceremony of Losses by David Mack; Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers by James Swallow; Prime Directive by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevenes; Federation by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens; The Lost Era: Serpents Among the Ruins by David R. George III; The Lost Era: The Art of the Impossible by Keith R.A. DeCandido; A Time for War, A Time for Peace by Keith R.A. DeCandido; TNG: The Buried Age by Christopher L. Bennett; Rise of the Federation: A Choice of Futures/Tower of Babel by Christopher L. Bennett; Ex Machina by Christopher L. Bennett; Section 31: Cloak by S.D. Perry; Section 31: Abyss by David Weddle and Jeffrey Lang; TNG: Immortal Coil by Jeffrey Lang; Strangers From the Sky by Margaret Wander Bonano; The Romulan Way by Diane Duane; The Fall: Revelation and Dust by David R. George III; Typhon Pact: Brinkmanship by Una McCormack; A Time to Kill by David Mack; and A Time to Heal by David Mack.
I have tend to have trouble differentiate some of the more arc heavy series individual entries so I tend to think of them as one thing. Vanguard: Harbinger - Declassified (that's all of them I've read) Ds9: Relaunch A Stitch in Time (Avatar - Warpath) Titan: Orion's Hounds TNG: Q-Squared Imzadi A Time to Kill/Heal A Time for War, A Time for Peace Relaunch: Greater Than the Sum Destiny Typhon Pact: Zero Sum Game Rough Beasts of Empire Plagues of Night/Raise the Dawn Brinkmanship The Lost Era: Serpents Among The Ruins The Art of The Impossible The Buried Age Articles of the Federation Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers EDITED TO ADD NEW ENTRIES
My current top 3: Articles of the Federation, by Keith R.A. DeCandido Orion's Hounds, by Christopher L. Bennett Wagon Train to the Stars, by Diane Carey And completing the top 10, in no particular order: Watching the Clock, by Christopher L. Bennett Challenger, by Diane Carey A Time for War, A Time for Peace, by Keith R.A. DeCandido This Gray Spirit, by Heather Jarman Reap the Whirlwind, by David Mack Wildfire, by David Mack Avatar, by S.D. Perry Note that I've tried to not include more than 2 novels by the same author. For some, that was a challenge...
A smattering of favourites: Rosetta Ex Machina Day of the Vipers Well of Souls The Buried Age Millennium Trilogy The Left Hand of Destiny, books one and two. A Stitch In Time SCE: Balance of Nature The Never-Ending Sacrifice Orion's Hounds Destiny Trilogy Over A Torrent Sea Watching the Clock Plagues of Night/Raise the Dawn A Ceremony of Losses From outside the modern books: Spock's World
Destiny: Mere Mortals by David Mack Cold Equations: The Persistence of Memory by David Mack Mission Gamma: Twilight by David R. George III Fire Ship by Diane Carey Imzadi by Peter David Q-Squared by Peter David Unworthy by Kirsten Beyer Metamorphosis by Jean Lorrah Millennium: The Fall of Terok Nor by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens Federation by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Prime Directive The Final Reflection The Wounded Sky & My Enemy, My Ally A Stitch in Time There are others that I enjoyed, but those are the ones I return to time & again and am never disappointed. The last part of the beginning chapter of PD makes me well up with tears EVERY time I read it.
Some of my favorites are: Capture The Flag by John Vornholt Q-In-Law by Peter Davide The Escape by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch Spectre by William Shatner Dark Victory William Shatner Preserver by William Shatner Echoes by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Nina Hoffman Planet X by Michael Jan Friedman Flashback: The Novel by Diane Carey
Currently, some of my favourites include: Art of the Impossible by KRAD; The Buried Age by Christopher Bennett; Full Circle by Kirsten Beyer; Indistinguishable from Magic by David McIntee; DRG3's Typhon Pact trilogy, and the Vanguard series
"The Entropy Effect" "Strangers from the Sky" "Uhura's Song" "In the Name of Honor" "Ex Machina" "TNG: Metamorphosis" "TNG: Immortal Coil" "DS9: Avatar" duology "Andor: Paradigm" in "Worlds of DS9" "Captain's Table: NF: Once Burned" "Captain's Table: VOY: Fire Ship" "NF: Stone and Anvil" "Destiny" trilogy.
TOS The Wounded Sky , Spock's World, Sarek, Doctor's orders , Strangers From the sky, From History's Shadow,TNG Imzadi , Imortal Coil, Q-in law , Battle of Betazed The Stargazer series of books.Ds9 The Millenium trilogy , The never Ending Sacrifice ,The Crimson Shadow.Unity Voyager Shadow of the storm.The Eternal tide Enterprise The Good That Men Do ,Rosetta, By the book.The Romulan war books , And The rise of the Federation books 1&2.Greg Cox's novels and a lot of other Star Trek books from all the different series.
I have fond memories of reading Fortune's Light by Michael Jan Friedman by a pool in Florida many years ago.