A Singular Destiny review thread (possible spoilers)

[DEWLine]

*falls off chair laughing, bumping his skull on his drawing table corner on the way down...*

Now, here's the key question: is the book in Ottawa yet? Anyone here seen it?

[Christopher]

Brendan Moody wrote:

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^Looking more closely and doing a bit of research I recognize

Captain George Sanders and Sorlak

but I can't get the third, if those are even the two minor ones you were thinking of.

Wow. Actually neither of those is among the names I noticed. I forgot all about

who George Sanders was, even though I was the one who gave Sanders that first name in The Buried Age. And I didn't recognize the name Sorlak at all.

So keep looking.

[Allyn Gibson]

KRAD wrote:

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Oh fuck me sideways, really?

Yes, really.

[Brendan Moody]

Christopher wrote:

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So keep looking.

Well, charmed as I am by the notion of spending yet more time poring over a list of fictional characters in the hope that one of them will ring a distant bell, I think I'll just wait for someone who can be bothered to help me out by identifying them, thanks.

[KRAD]

In the casualty list in question, three are characters we've seen on screen, one is a name we've seen before, and one is someone from one of my previous books. I'll say who behind the box....

The onscreen characters are B'Elanna Torres, Miral Paris, and George Sanders (whose death is then spelled out in the very next interstitial bit). The name we've seen before is Lt. Commander Thomas Alan Chafin, a fan who's been Tuckerized many times in the past, mostly by Peter David. The one from my previous book is Sorlak of Vulcan, who was a Palais lawyer in Articles of the Federation.

[Hartzilla2007]

KRAD wrote:

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In the casualty list in question, three are characters we've seen on screen, one is a name we've seen before, and one is someone from one of my previous books. I'll say who behind the box....

The onscreen characters are B'Elanna Torres, Miral Paris, and George Sanders (whose death is then spelled out in the very next interstitial bit). The name we've seen before is Lt. Commander Thomas Alan Chafin, a fan who's been Tuckerized many times in the past, mostly by Peter David. The one from my previous book is Sorlak of Vulcan, who was a Palais lawyer in Articles of the Federation.

This thread is starting to need funeral music.

[Christopher]

KRAD wrote:

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In the casualty list in question, three are characters we've seen on screen, one is a name we've seen before, and one is someone from one of my previous books. I'll say who behind the box....

The onscreen characters are B'Elanna Torres, Miral Paris, and George Sanders (whose death is then spelled out in the very next interstitial bit). The name we've seen before is Lt. Commander Thomas Alan Chafin, a fan who's been Tuckerized many times in the past, mostly by Peter David. The one from my previous book is Sorlak of Vulcan, who was a Palais lawyer in Articles of the Federation.

In the version I have in manuscript, there are two other names I recognized, both SCE-related:

Captain Anna Maria Amalfitano, who was Sonya Gomez's captain aboard the Sentinel, and Orenthal V. Hawkins, who I assume is Vance Hawkins.

Were they removed from the final list?

[KRAD]

^ The first name was removed and your assumption regarding the second name is false.

[Sci]

KRAD wrote:

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^ The first name was removed and your assumption regarding the second name is false.

I take it that the second name is named after one of your fellow contributors to The Chronic Rift?

[KRAD]

^ I have no idea what you're talking about...............

[Christopher]

KRAD wrote:

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^ The first name was removed and your assumption regarding the second name is false.

Okay, thanks. But could all those people with the same family name be relatives of the character I thought it was?

[ClayinCA]

Dayton Ward wrote:

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It was Janeway. She was resurrected *and* killed off again, all between books....just to piss people off.

Good grief, don't tell Lynx, she'll have a coronary...

Man of Steel wrote:

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Ya know Kevin, I live in NY and it's never a problem for me to get the books. However, I happen to have an apt here in Jerusalem where I am staying for a few months visiting friends and family and I am still getting my stuff in a timely matter.

It may be a little harder to find Trek books (this one in particular) in New York, Man of Steel. I just posted this in another thread:

ClayinCA wrote:

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This may be a bad sign...

I noticed that Borders' website page for A Singular Destiny lists the book as "available online only." This is separate from its status as a pre-order, so it looks as though the book, even when it comes out, will not be sold at Borders B&M stores (further ensuring that I won't be shopping at Borders for much longer).

No indication on Barnes & Noble's website that they won't be selling it in stores, though no stores in the New York area appear to have them in stock - that could just be that the books haven't made their way to the stores yet, though...

[Steve Mollmann]

In the future, there is only one family named "Hawkins".

[William Leisner]

ClayinCA wrote:

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This may be a bad sign...

I noticed that Borders' website page for A Singular Destiny lists the book as "available online only." This is separate from its status as a pre-order, so it looks as though the book, even when it comes out, will not be sold at Borders B&M stores (further ensuring that I won't be shopping at Borders for much longer).

I don't know what Borders thinks they're doing. This was the same message they had for Errand of Fury Book 3, and it doesn't seem like they intend to carry Shards and Shadows in store, either. Not putting new releases into their stores (even if its just the less mainstream titles that are being sacrificed) hardly seems to be the way to bring customers in.

[Corran Horn]

William Leisner wrote:

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I don't know what Borders thinks they're doing. This was the same message they had for Errand of Fury Book 3, and it doesn't seem like they intend to carry Shards and Shadows in store, either. Not putting new releases into their stores (even if its just the less mainstream titles that are being sacrificed) hardly seems to be the way to bring customers in.

Yeah, I guess they're targeting hardcovers...which are a SIN to buy at a B&M these days.