Is that why the wings of a Klingon Bird of Prey always reminded me of a Delorean?
(Seriously, that's some range that guy has. And considerate, too, lending Kirk's crew one of his spare time machines.)
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Spoilers Star Trek: Prey Trilogy - general discussion thread
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I imagine a temporal knot casued by Lloyd's characters owning both the DeLorean and the Bounty -- which Kirk used to visit the antique shop where H.G. Wells visited before taking Mary Steenburgen back to the 19th Century in one movie, only to have Lloyd bring her right back in another. All we needed for the circle to be even more convoluted was Steenburgen to have played Gillian Taylor...
If there's one word I could use to describe this epic trilogy, it's "Balanced". Really enjoyed that the characters played just as they should and the nearly equal time spent with antagonist PoV as protagonist PoV. Looking forward to more stand-alone and mini-series from JJM!
About the Skagaran homeworld: they put umbrellas in their whiskeys: http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Skagara
@JJMiller: If you let CrossCult know, maybe they can include the map you have ready in the German adaptation? They put a map into the Star Trek: Prometheus books.
@JJMiller: If you let CrossCult know, maybe they can include the map you have ready in the German adaptation? They put a map into the Star Trek: Prometheus books.
Thanks, everyone! I was off at a con in Florida promoting the books this past weekend and only now got in here.
Will think about the map. It depends on how far along they are, as it would take me some time to clean what I have up. I also perceive a bit of an issue in that I understand Kinshayan space to be sort of off-axis, overlaying the frontier region, and I'm not sure how that would be depicted in 2-D.
Will think about the map. It depends on how far along they are, as it would take me some time to clean what I have up. I also perceive a bit of an issue in that I understand Kinshayan space to be sort of off-axis, overlaying the frontier region, and I'm not sure how that would be depicted in 2-D.
Just finished it last night.
. . . Ardra and the Blackstone Truthcrafters, got a "community service" sentence, and that the Unsung got their hereditary discommendations expunged, and got their own community service sentences. There is symmetry.
. . . ended up disowned by his family, discommendated alone, and then handed over to Federation justice.
. . . Shift took out her nemesis, and stole his identity.
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Someone had mentioned earlier about seeing a second printing of Jackal's Trick. My latest order from the warehouse for my shop just came in, and both Books 1 and 2 are on third printings. I don't have much experience with Simon & Schuster's print runs, but as I recall it took more than a year to get to Takedown's third printing. The printing was evidently ordered up before they had my revisions, so I would expect the few corrections we had will appear later on.
^ Excellent news, John, and glad to hear it. There's definitely an appetite out there for stories like these, plus possibly (if I might add in a personal thought, here) a similar undertapped hunger for stories set during the Enterprise-A era. Would love to see you tackle more stories in both time periods, if possible.
I
Kruge's Blood
Spock's Test
Kruge's Fire
Korgh's Target
II
The Tiger's Master
The Wolf's Disguise
The Hawk's Ruse
The Hunter's Trap
Death's Door
III
The Way of Warriors
The Side of Angels
The Line of Fire
The Work of Ages
You want to give us a clue on this word game? I see a "blood test," but not a whole lot else.
A lot of them seem to form two-word phrases, especially if you add a preposition: "blood test," "test-fire," "target master," "master of disguise," "trapdoor." That doesn't work for all of them. There's also "wayside," "sideline," and "linework" in the Book III titles.
That was pretty much it, something suggesting threads tying it all together. All thirteen were constructed as possessives where the words for the possessions related to the next in sequence (within but not across books), either as part of a compound word or just a related term. And then the constructions within each book were parallel with the title, such that Hell's Heart sections are all "____'s ______," and so on. (Note that the titles can also fit into the chains: Heart > Blood, Jackal > Tiger, Hall > Way.)
The only outlier with the section titles was Death's Door, but then I figured if one of the thirteen was not like the others, we already had that as a story element. Not perfect, certainly, but a bit of fun: I envision the Annals of the Circle volumes would have had puzzles within puzzles.
The only outlier with the section titles was Death's Door, but then I figured if one of the thirteen was not like the others, we already had that as a story element. Not perfect, certainly, but a bit of fun: I envision the Annals of the Circle volumes would have had puzzles within puzzles.
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Hmm. Glad I was on the right track.
I'm not unfamiliar with the idea of playing games with chapter titles: in my own long-gestating (non-ST) novel, all the chapters have titles, every chapter title is alliterative (albeit not necessarily perfectly), and since it's the story of a child-prodigy musician, every chapter title includes some musical term. For example, "Prelude to a Prodigy" or "Freshman Year Fantasy and Fugue."
I'm not unfamiliar with the idea of playing games with chapter titles: in my own long-gestating (non-ST) novel, all the chapters have titles, every chapter title is alliterative (albeit not necessarily perfectly), and since it's the story of a child-prodigy musician, every chapter title includes some musical term. For example, "Prelude to a Prodigy" or "Freshman Year Fantasy and Fugue."
Yeah, I'll do something like that as long as it fits the events. Some are pretty simple -- Takedown's titles all ended in "-down." A New Dawn (which was possibly going to be called "Loose Cannons") retained its explosive titles: Ignition/Reaction/Detonation/Damage Assessment. Kenobi's section titles are all geographic locations that are simultaneously literal and metaphorical; in Overdraft they're all high finance terms. Here we had the illusionist story hiding within a Klingon opera, so slipping in a double meaning made sense.
That didn't take much time, but the right quotations always require a long and deliberate search. I think I looked at least once at every single geopolitical history quotation that used hunting as a metaphor in any way!
That didn't take much time, but the right quotations always require a long and deliberate search. I think I looked at least once at every single geopolitical history quotation that used hunting as a metaphor in any way!
I did an hour on Wisconsin Public Radio about the trilogy and Trek in general this morning: http://www.wpr.org/shows/50-years-exploring-final-frontier
I just finished the i logo last night. Hopefully we'll get some follow up on Korgh's Federation sentence in another novel, but any follow up story to this trilogy is going to be difficult as Miller set the bar high.
