2022 book releases
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Yeah, that was weird as hell.
Well, that's no planet I've heard of before, at least. Makes me think this connection to Picard's past is from his Stargazer days, not anything we've seen onscreen.
IIRC, there haven't been announcements at Shore Leave for close to a decade.
Dead Endless was announced at Shore Leave 2019, the last in-person convention. It’s been a while since they used Shore Leave to do major announcements about the upcoming schedule, though— I think that was more Marco Palmieri’s thing.
There’s a panel this afternoon called “What’s Coming in Star Trek Fiction?” If anything gets announced, it’ll probably be there. Honestly, given how far ahead we know the (emptiness of the} schedule, I wouldn’t be shocked if nothing is announced.
There’s a panel this afternoon called “What’s Coming in Star Trek Fiction?” If anything gets announced, it’ll probably be there. Honestly, given how far ahead we know the (emptiness of the} schedule, I wouldn’t be shocked if nothing is announced.
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Nothing was announced. David Mack talked briefly about Harm's Way, and then the bulk of the panel was devoted to Star Trek Explorer (which panelist Greg Cox has been contributing to) and some general Treklit discussion, like how books are commissioned, how last year's Deep Space Nine and NextGen novels were an experiment that seem to have been received well, that sort of thing.
Which I guess means we can expect more TV series era TNG and DS9 novels, as well as possibly even Voyager and Enterprise at some point down the road.
Treklit these days be like:
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Voyager and Enterprise were described as not carrying their weight -- in other words, they don't sell as well (which, now that I think of it, would have to be based on the previous, MMPB-heavy contract) -- so it's possible, but I might not get my hopes up. Dayton did say that, with Star Trek Explorer -- which he said was designed to be "the New Yorker of Star Trek magazines" -- they're trying to spread the series love around the different series more (he mentioned a TNG pitch that was put on the back burner because they'd been TNG-heavy in their approvals) and see what audiences respond to, and maybe S&S would look at that and say, "Hey, this might be the right time to try this."
That’s sad, but not entirely surprising. Still, Kirsten Beyer’s Voyager books sold well afaik, so I can’t see why a TV era novel wouldn’t. Personally I’d buy a TV era Voyager novel!
The other issue is that it’s such a crowded franchise these days. Disco, Picard, SNW… only so many books each year are possible I guess.
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I've found the last year's Star Trek output, both on-screen and in books, disappointing enough that I'm not sure that I would buy another. I keep going back and forth on whether I want to cancel my pre-orders for the few books that have already been announced.
The lack of books probably isn't helping. In earlier years, if I felt some book had been so utterly misconceived as Coda (or some episode as much as the SNW finale, or the ends of DSC's first two seasons), well, there'd be another one soon enough that I'd probably like better. The fact that I disliked these "event" stories is very damaging (if I'm not vibing with the biggest stories with the most wood behind the arrow, any enjoyment of the quotidian stuff is probably accidental), but giving me months or longer to just sit and stew in those negative feelings rather than keeping up the habit and the inertia is not making me eager to return to the franchise. I'm damn near having to twist my own arm into giving PGY a shot before I let my P+ subscription expire.
The lack of books probably isn't helping. In earlier years, if I felt some book had been so utterly misconceived as Coda (or some episode as much as the SNW finale, or the ends of DSC's first two seasons), well, there'd be another one soon enough that I'd probably like better. The fact that I disliked these "event" stories is very damaging (if I'm not vibing with the biggest stories with the most wood behind the arrow, any enjoyment of the quotidian stuff is probably accidental), but giving me months or longer to just sit and stew in those negative feelings rather than keeping up the habit and the inertia is not making me eager to return to the franchise. I'm damn near having to twist my own arm into giving PGY a shot before I let my P+ subscription expire.
It’s ok. There’s plenty of great stories. No reason to spend time on ones that don’t work for you. I liked SNW but I’ve given up on all the rest, TrekLit included, since Coda. Just finished Ryka Aoki’s Light From Uncommon Stars and loved it. It sucks to leave behind something that you’ve built so much connection to, but if you gotta go you gotta go. Twist no arms, it’s not worth the stress.
I see I'm not alone in my opinion about Coda. It's been a few months and my opinion has not softened about them. It doesn't help that I really did not like Picard season 2 (and was lukewarm about season 1 honestly). I loved the storylines from the litverse. I keep thinking to myself, the litverse was obliterated for that? Honestly season 2 is probably the first Star Trek production I will probably never watch again. My compliments to the authors over the last 20+ years of the relaunch novels. That storyline was way, way better IMO. It's sad to say but I wish they never made Picard now.
I stopped reading Revenant for a while, not because it's a bad novel, but I had some issues the last 2 1/2 months that I won't get into here and I had no desire to read or even watch Star Trek until the last week or so (I just finished Picard last night and just started watching SNW last week--a much better show through the first 2 episodes BTW, and IMO of course). I guess it's a good thing they don't release books every month anymore or I'd be really behind. I'm going to start reading it again though. I'm about halfway through and so far it's not bad.
But David makes a good point. With so few books coming out, a lot of the momentum is sapped out. When they were coming out monthly I always tried to make sure I kept up with my reading so I could buy and read the next one. I didn't give much thought to the details of whether I would like it or not. I just wanted to keep reading the newest novel. But now with months and months between novels you have much more time to consider whether you even want to bother or not.
Whilst I enjoyed Picard, if I had to choose between it and the Litverse, I would choose the Litverse every time.
I finished Coda several months ago but haven’t had the urge to read any more Trek even though I’ve got 80 unread Trek on my Kindle.
I finished Coda several months ago but haven’t had the urge to read any more Trek even though I’ve got 80 unread Trek on my Kindle.
Comparing the Litverse and Picard is a little unbalanced, since the Litverse is 20 years of an entire publishing line and Picard is 2 seasons of one show. Comparing like with like, would I take Picard over the first few years of the TNG Relaunch? Ehh. Both are interesting but flawed.
Picard, whatever its issues, has drawn me back into Trek fandom for the first time in over ten years, and I’ve been catching up on some of the books I missed in that time.
Picard, whatever its issues, has drawn me back into Trek fandom for the first time in over ten years, and I’ve been catching up on some of the books I missed in that time.
I'd say that seasons 1 & 2 of Picard are two completely different shows that simply have a title and several cast members in common.
So, like the '80's "War of the Worlds" series, eh?
