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Star Trek: Discovery - Die Standing by John Jackson Miller

Well, yes and no. Since 2009, "Pocket Books" has just been the name for the mass-market paperback imprint of Gallery Books. It's the same publishing division, the same editorial staff, with the only difference being the format the books are released in. Since Trek novels are now being released in trade paperback format instead of MMPB, they get the Gallery label instead of Pocket.
Ah, OK, thanks - that clears it up nicely. Just took a closer look at the copy of Collateral Damage and there the "new" name is.
 
Normally I would be all over this but I detest Georgiou.
That said if ever a writer was going to do a proper job on the mirror universe (ie.not a bizarre bdsm/slash ) it’s this Miller chappie.

I'm pretty sure you'll find things to like. As with Enterprise War, I looked at it as a chance to provide a TV season you didn't get -- and the chance to tell an adventure story while exploring the ramifications of such a person being loose in our continuum. If the feedback I've gotten is any indication, you'll find it worth the trip!
 
Thanks JJ.
I loved the “Prey” series and I will be getting this too.
Your books remind me of the Reeves-Stevens’ novels(high praise from me) in that you often use plot devices and situations from past episodes and books to go deeper and establish a sense of larger continuity.
Trek can be enormously wasteful of characters and set-ups,good for one episode and never mentioned again.
 
Emperor. Exile. Secret agent. And… emperor again? Philippa Georgiou, once ruler of the Terran Empire, gets the chance to rebuild her regime in the Prime Universe in STAR TREK: DISCOVERY - DIE STANDING, my new novel from Gallery Books!

Sounds really interesting. Very much onboard for this. (Mainline Georgiou was my favorite character in the previous novels, so seeing another iteration is really exciting.)

I don't care for DIS -- it sounds too negative. ;)

Yeah, I don't really get why some people are so insistent on using the first three letters, given that the ostensible reason is for uniformity with the other title abbreviations -- completely ignoring the fact that that uniformity doesn't exist.
 
I am really looking forward to this.
One of the strange coincidences of publishing - Titan are releasing Una McCormack’s Janeway biography on the same day so will be a big day for Trek Lit.

The definition of a first world problem is that I will be on holidays so will have to wait until I get home to get them, even though they would be great beach reads
 
Emony was the olympic gymnast. What's she doing discovering intergalactic menaces? Intergalactic doping scandal maybe?
 
Emony was the olympic gymnast. What's she doing discovering intergalactic menaces? Intergalactic doping scandal maybe?

Heh! No, I'll just say there are no occupational requirements when it comes to being in the wrong place at the wrong time...
 
Yeah, I don't really get why some people are so insistent on using the first three letters, given that the ostensible reason is for uniformity with the other title abbreviations -- completely ignoring the fact that that uniformity doesn't exist.
I've gone with Disco every since we saw the crew members wearing shirts with that on them in the show.
 
I've gone with Disco every since we saw the crew members wearing shirts with that on them in the show.

Not sure it rolls off the tongue as well as "DSC." Also, do we really want to associate something with disco?
 
We need more Lorca books. He’s the only good character from Discovery.

One would think that novelists would be allowed to do pretty much whatever they wanted with (prime) Lorca now, since the show apparently won't.

Not unless Discovery makes it back to the 23rd century, anyway.
 
One would think that novelists would be allowed to do pretty much whatever they wanted with (prime) Lorca now, since the show apparently won't.

Not unless Discovery makes it back to the 23rd century, anyway.
Or maybe Lorca somehow makes it to the 32nd century?
 
One would think that novelists would be allowed to do pretty much whatever they wanted with (prime) Lorca now, since the show apparently won't.

Not unless Discovery makes it back to the 23rd century, anyway.
Pretty sure S31 is set in the 23rd century, and will feature Georgiou, Ash Tyler and others "left behind"
 
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