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Avatar, Book One is three years older than The Entropy Effect was when Avatar, Book One was released.

Wow!
I wonder if someday we’ll get en entertainment medium that allows another stab at Relaunch series, so that every Star Trek series can be continued like DS9–R did.
 
Stevil2001 said:
When Avatar Book One came out, The Entropy Effect—the oldest of the old original Pocket novels—was twenty years old.

Avatar Book One came out over twenty-three years ago.

I hope the rest of you feel as old as I do.
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Stop saying things like that! :lol:

Warning for making your mod feel old.

Wait, I'm being told that's not a thing, and I can't do that. Fine then. Nevermind.

But seriously, it's hard to believe Avatar was that long ago. I wonder if we'll ever see anything like the early years of the DS9 relaunch again?
 
If you really want to be freaked out by the passage of time, just look at Doctor Who. This year there was as much time since Christopher Eccleston's season as there was between his season and Colin Baker's second season, AKA Trial of a Time Lord.
 
Back in the day of the phisphi boards Mary P. Taylor posted she found it at her local downtown Chicago B. Dalton in an early release. I left work as a young intern and drove downtown to buy it. I was that excited. And the relaunch didn't disappoint.
 
Unionized Elf said:
Interestingly enough, I just started reading The Entropy Effect yesterday. Just putting that out there.
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I reread it a few years ago -- 2020, I think, pandemic reading. It has such a rich texture. Like, it doesn't feel like Star Trek as we know it now, but it feels like a valid and rich take on the Star Trek universe, along the lines of a hard sf universe with solid worldbuilding. There's a strong "sensawunder" there still.
 
Allyn Gibson said:
I reread it a few years ago -- 2020, I think, pandemic reading. It has such a rich texture. Like, it doesn't feel like Star Trek as we know it now, but it feels like a valid and rich take on the Star Trek universe, along the lines of a hard sf universe with solid worldbuilding. There's a strong "sensawunder" there still.
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I enjoyed those wild-and-woolly early days when there was so little established canon that writers were free to flesh out the universe in their own idiosyncratic ways, rather than conforming to a single continuity or house style. (Not that there's really a house style today; I've always been free to write my Trek fiction in my own voice, as have my colleagues. But there's vastly more canon we're required to stay consistent with, which makes things more uniform than they were pre-TNG.)
 
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