One Book From the Past Ten Years
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The best written book of Trek or anything?
As for a very well written Trek book, do you mean enjoyable? @Christopher arguably writes very well, I just don't enjoy what he has written since 2007/08, or the last decade really.
As for a very well written Trek book, do you mean enjoyable? @Christopher arguably writes very well, I just don't enjoy what he has written since 2007/08, or the last decade really.
Since you mentioned The Buried Age, The Persistence of Memory by David Mack came to mind. It's got a similar scope - covering a substantial chunk of time and filling in missing or unknown parts of several character's stories. It's the first part of the Cold Equations trilogy, but the books are more-or-less stand-alone, but linked thematically. The first one and the third one were my favorites.
Not sure if that's exactly what you're looking for, but it's the first thing came to my mind after reading your post.
Not sure if that's exactly what you're looking for, but it's the first thing came to my mind after reading your post.
Star Trek Ds9 Unity by S.D. Perry . Some of the TOS Novels by Greg Cox maybe something you want to read the one with the Tos crossover with Seven from Voyager is really good. The Dayton ward novels History's shadow and Elusive Salvation and Hearts and Minds are really good. Or you might like the Star trek Legacies novels that came out last year they're fantastic books.
Destiny trilogy, hands down.
Amazingly that was out in September 2012, nearly fifteen years ago, or a decade and a half.
This.
Here are my three:
The Sorrows of Empire - This originally started as a novella (or maybe very short novel, I can't remember for sure) in the Mirror Universe collection Glass Empires before being expanded into a standalone full length novel. It follows the Mirror Universe Spock from shortly after Mirror, Mirror through to the fall of the Terran Empires and the rise of the Alliance.
Vanguard: Reap The Whirlwind - This one might be a bit hard since it's the third book in the arc heavy Vanguard series, but it is an awesome book.
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers - The first book in The Lost Era/Terok Nor trilogy, this book explores the beginning of the Cadassian Occupation of Bajor. While it is technically the first book in a trilogy, it is very standalone, it tells it's own complete story, with very little connection to the other two books. The trilogy was basically one standalone, and a two part story.
The Sorrows of Empire - This originally started as a novella (or maybe very short novel, I can't remember for sure) in the Mirror Universe collection Glass Empires before being expanded into a standalone full length novel. It follows the Mirror Universe Spock from shortly after Mirror, Mirror through to the fall of the Terran Empires and the rise of the Alliance.
Vanguard: Reap The Whirlwind - This one might be a bit hard since it's the third book in the arc heavy Vanguard series, but it is an awesome book.
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers - The first book in The Lost Era/Terok Nor trilogy, this book explores the beginning of the Cadassian Occupation of Bajor. While it is technically the first book in a trilogy, it is very standalone, it tells it's own complete story, with very little connection to the other two books. The trilogy was basically one standalone, and a two part story.
Some I've really liked since 2007:
Day of the Vipers, James Swallow
Full Circle, Kristen Beyer
The Never-Ending Sacrifice, Una McCormack
Children of the Storm, Kristen Beyer
Raise the Dawn, David R. George III
The Persistence of Memory, David Mack
Silent Weapons, David Mack
The Crimson Shadow, Una McCormack
Protectors, Kristen Beyer
Disavowed, David Mack
The Missing, Una McCormack
(I didn't put the Destiny trilogy or Prey trilogy up because they don't have a weak point or a standout volume, but they're certainly worth reading. And although it just misses the cutoff, David R. George III's Provenance of Shadows was lovely.)
EDIT: Shoot, just realized @Arpy wanted no more than three. I'd pick Never-Ending, Disavowed, and Children.
Day of the Vipers, James Swallow
Full Circle, Kristen Beyer
The Never-Ending Sacrifice, Una McCormack
Children of the Storm, Kristen Beyer
Raise the Dawn, David R. George III
The Persistence of Memory, David Mack
Silent Weapons, David Mack
The Crimson Shadow, Una McCormack
Protectors, Kristen Beyer
Disavowed, David Mack
The Missing, Una McCormack
(I didn't put the Destiny trilogy or Prey trilogy up because they don't have a weak point or a standout volume, but they're certainly worth reading. And although it just misses the cutoff, David R. George III's Provenance of Shadows was lovely.)
EDIT: Shoot, just realized @Arpy wanted no more than three. I'd pick Never-Ending, Disavowed, and Children.
Full Circle
Twist Of Faith
These Haunted Seas
(Hey, if Voyager had had an omnibus then it would be on here. But TOF & THS both take you through the first 7 DS9 relaunch titles, with one of the stories being a short story to finish up the main book and also setup a few things for the future of DS9).
Twist Of Faith
These Haunted Seas
(Hey, if Voyager had had an omnibus then it would be on here. But TOF & THS both take you through the first 7 DS9 relaunch titles, with one of the stories being a short story to finish up the main book and also setup a few things for the future of DS9).
I really liked Sorrows of the Empire and The Autobiography of James T. Kirk.
I hope 2012 was not nearly 15 years ago cos suddenly I feel much older than I though I was.
Any book by Una McCormack would get my vote. Or Kirsten Beyer. Voyager Full Cirlce is brilliant and me love a series I didn't really care about before.
I hope 2012 was not nearly 15 years ago cos suddenly I feel much older than I though I was.
Whoops.
I was relying on the ebook edition Amazon.uk was showing and didn't think it strange.
Anyway, it was out in January 2005, still, over a decade ago, but not a decade and a half.
And @Arpy, now you're among us, what do you think of the suggestions made?
I'll take a look at the listed entries tomorrow and let you know. I'm not looking at any books in groups of more than three. The points was to really figure out the best, preferably in order that I could compare with others.
Part of the issue is even finding the novels, let alone sitting in a bookstore to read a random chapter of each to decide on which is best at the moment. Oh, Walden Books, I miss thee.
The Destiny trilogy was decent but not a home run in my opinion. I enjoyed the Genesis wave much more, but those are a little outside your 10 year limit. Some of the "A time to ___" books were decent. If you are willing to expand your definition to include comic books then there were some very good stories written in there. I have really enjoyed some of the IDW books that discussed the different ST eras, Spock - Reflections was particularly good.
EightiesKid, I'll keep an eye out for the Spock Reflections comic...wait, is that the one where he and Scotty visit McCoy in the hospital?
I picked up Slaughterhouse Five and have been reading that instead.
I was thinking of keeping the Cardassian books in mind, having loved Stitch -- esp Day of the Vipers...a society seduced by aliens and selling themselves out for individual gain.
I picked up Slaughterhouse Five and have been reading that instead.
I was thinking of keeping the Cardassian books in mind, having loved Stitch -- esp Day of the Vipers...a society seduced by aliens and selling themselves out for individual gain.
No, the story with Spock & Scotty visiting McCoy in the hospital is one of the shorts in Widlstorm's Star Trek Special. Spock: Reflections is an IDW miniseries which was released as a tie-in to the first JJ Abrams movie and features flashbacks from throughout Spock's life, starting with him as a kid and going through to the movie era. According to the back cover it's supposed to deal with what lead Spock to decide to move to Romulus.
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