Your Favorite Lost Era Novel

[drc]

I remember enjoying Art of the Impossible, but The Buried Age is much fresher in my mind and covers an era and characters I'd always wondered about. So I'll go with The Buried Age.

I remember the Enterprise-C entry being tough to get through. Not poorly written, just not that interesting.

 

[Christopher]

Catalyst is pretty good, and it left me really wanting to see more Enterprise C stories.

Err, Well of Souls was the Enterprise-C novel. Catalyst of Sorrows was set in 2360 and was about Admiral Uhura and Lts. Sisko and Tuvok.

 

[KRAD]

I remember enjoying Art of the Impossible, but The Buried Age is much fresher in my mind and covers an era and characters I'd always wondered about. So I'll go with The Buried Age.

You could've voted for both.........

 

[Mage]

Serpents Among The Ruins, Art Of The Impossible, The Buried Age and One Constant Star.

I liked The Sundered, but some parts just didn't mesh for me.

And Cast No Shadows is counted as a TLE by myself, so even though I can't vote for it, it gets my vote!!!

 

[tomswift2002]

Well my favorite "Lost Era" novel isn't up there and that's John Vornholt's "Capture The Flag". Actually, all the TNG/Voyager Starfleet Academy books are Lost Era novels and I prefer over the other Lost Era novels.

"One Constant Star" I haven't read yet. "Well Of Souls", "Night Of The Wolves", and "Dawn Of Eagles" were extremely boring: Souls I barely got through, and the Wolves/Eagles Duology I only got through about 1/3 of Wolves before I found the story ran out of gas.

Overall the other books I never really found to be stand outs, and were very dry. "The Art Of The Impossible" and "Deny Thy Father" were probably the Top 2 out of the list.

 

[Trimm]

Catalyst is pretty good, and it left me really wanting to see more Enterprise C stories.

Err, Well of Souls was the Enterprise-C novel. Catalyst of Sorrows was set in 2360 and was about Admiral Uhura and Lts. Sisko and Tuvok.

You've got me there, been awhile since I read Well of Souls. I think Catalyst might be the only LE novel I haven't read.

 

[chris_masters5]

Three way tie for me - between Art of the Impossible, Burried Age, and Day of the Vipers.

 

[Skywalker]

Gonna have to go with The Buried Age, followed by Serpents Among the Ruins and then Day of the Vipers.

But I haven't read all of the TLE books yet. Still working on it.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Catalyst is pretty good, and it left me really wanting to see more Enterprise C stories.

Err, Well of Souls was the Enterprise-C novel. Catalyst of Sorrows was set in 2360 and was about Admiral Uhura and Lts. Sisko and Tuvok.

You've got me there, been awhile since I read Well of Souls.

It's been my experience that Well of Souls can distort time for anyone reading it. And not in a good way. It's such an impenetrable wall of weirdness that you could take hours just to get through one chapter...

 

[USS Firefly]

I've read Serpents Among the Ruins, The Art of the Impossible and The Buried Age
One Constant Star and The Sundered are still waiting on a shelf to be read.

 

[Relayer1]

I remember enjoying Art of the Impossible, but The Buried Age is much fresher in my mind and covers an era and characters I'd always wondered about. So I'll go with The Buried Age.

You could've voted for both.........

The only thing preventing me from voting for it was....I haven't read it.

Yet.

Sorry, I'll get around to it soon...

 

[JD]

I went with Serpents, TAotI, The Buried Age, and Night of the Wolves. I've also read The Sundered, and the other two Terok Nor books. The Sundered I enjoyed quite a bit, and the second and third TN books were OK.

 

[OverlordSpock]

Serpents Among the Ruins remains my all-time favorite work of TrekLit (followed closely by Provenance of Shadows). The Buried Age is a close second for TLE books. I also loved Day of the Vipers, although the other two books of that trilogy were entirely forgettable.

Unlike some others, I really liked Well of Souls. It's not my favorite, but I felt like I was reading about fully fleshed-out characters that I was already quite familiar with and cared for—pretty amazing, considering that wasn't actually the case. I have always wished that we could have seen more of these characters.

 

[Thrawn]

Unlike some others, I really liked Well of Souls. It's not my favorite, but I felt like I was reading about fully fleshed-out characters that I was already quite familiar with and cared for—pretty amazing, considering that wasn't actually the case. I have always wished that we could have seen more of these characters.

Agreed. It was one of the more divisive TrekLit novels, but I thought it was pretty tremendous. Slow start, maybe, but the second half was killer.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Unlike some others, I really liked Well of Souls. It's not my favorite, but I felt like I was reading about fully fleshed-out characters that I was already quite familiar with and cared for—pretty amazing, considering that wasn't actually the case. I have always wished that we could have seen more of these characters.

Agreed. It was one of the more divisive TrekLit novels, but I thought it was pretty tremendous. Slow start, maybe, but the second half was killer.

It's one of my favourites. Yes, it's arguably a little too dedicated to presenting every character as fundamentally miserable and unstable, but since it rapidly allowed me to become very invested in them I consider the approach to be a great success overall. I'd love to see more stories with the characters, once they're over the worst of their, er, issues.
I'd particularly like to see stories that show the transition of Garrett's crew from what we see in this novel to the crew she has in Vulcan's Heart, eight years later. The implication being that most of the characters weren't lost at Narendra. Dr. Jo Stern has indeed shown up in SCE, so she's definitely still around.

I also appreciated the little cameo the characters had in a historical report in A Singular Destiny.

(As an aside, I actually gave this book to my English teacher to read; she very much enjoyed it. So there. ).

 

[DarKush]

It's a toss up between Art of the Impossible and Serpents Among the Ruins.

 

[aj1981]

I bought The Buried Age on the recommendation of this thread. I've always meant to read it but never got around to it and thought it was a great read however the book didn't fully grab my interest until the second half, and its for that reason I have to say it's my third favourite of the TLE stories. My top two are The Art of The Impossible and Serpent Among The Ruins.
TAOTI was the first TLE book I read and it set the bar extremely high. KRAD took a brief couple of lines from "The Way of The Warrior" and turned them into a saga that spanned the quadrant affecting and depicting many events we've heard so much about and directly affecting the lives of two TNG regulars in particular.
When I first read Serpent Among The Ruins I was in my early 20's and it left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth. I didn't think that was how Starfleet officers should behave and couldn't believe Starfleet Command would go along with what happened. However as I got older I came to understand what an impossible situation it was and how desperate times need desperate measures.

 

[KRAD]

I also appreciated the little cameo the characters had in a historical report in A Singular Destiny.

I line-edited Well of Souls, and really enjoyed it. I generally enjoy Ilsa's darker take on the Trek universe -- I think her Morgan Primus story in No Limits is a masterpiece -- and I couldn't resist throwing that easter egg into ASD.

 

[ronny]

I voted for Day of Vipers, and only that one because I didn't realize poll was multiple choice, I went with the headline which said pick your favorite.

BUT, this series is filled with great books. I love 4 out of the first original 6 book series, Deny Thy Father is the only book in the series I don't care for, and what's come after that has been great except for the One Constant Star which I liked a lot but it just doesn't measure up to what has previously come, at least for me, in the the series.

 

[DarKush]

I also appreciated the little cameo the characters had in a historical report in A Singular Destiny.

I line-edited Well of Souls, and really enjoyed it. I generally enjoy Ilsa's darker take on the Trek universe -- I think her Morgan Primus story in No Limits is a masterpiece -- and I couldn't resist throwing that easter egg into ASD.

I also enjoyed Well of Souls. It was a darker take and I liked that. It wish we had seen more of that crew.