Maybe it's Columbia, even if Destiny already did that.
2025 Novel Releases
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Maybe it's Columbia, even if Destiny already did that.
It's not, because...well, Destiny already did that.
Amazon now lists the title as Ring of Fire.
Johnny Cash was a time traveler/alien! He knew Elvis Presley! It's all starting to make sense now.
Oh! Is that why they called him the Man in Black?
There are only 2 novels scheduled for 2025??
So far.
What is the holdup for a few more?
Waiting to announce at conventions, I guess.
Maybe it's time we accept we now live in an era where there are only going to be a few Trek novels a year. 2024 was unusual in having four novels released, both 2022 and 2023 only had two each year. And given publication schedules up to the start of September are made available online, I'd guess if there are going to be any more Trek novels for 2025 besides the two already announced, it'll likely only be one more, maybe released around November, but that's just speculation.
But this is the world we live in now. Trade off for their being so much new onscreen content, I guess.
But this is the world we live in now. Trade off for their being so much new onscreen content, I guess.
Give them some time to incorporate all the data dumps from new material. It's like a smorgasbord of details to choose from.
Depending on how popular Section 31 is, there may be a literary follow-up to it later on.
Depending on how popular Section 31 is, there may be a literary follow-up to it later on.
The amount of content has nothing to do with it. Remember, there were typically around 52 hourlong episodes coming out per year when TNG, DS9, and VGR were on the air, roughly twice as much content as the 20 hourlong and 10 half-hour episodes we got in 2023 or the 10 hourlong and 30 half-hour episodes we got in 2024. But Pocket still managed to churn out more than two dozen novels a year for most of that span.
The slower publishing rate now is because of changes in the publishing industry and the market, and because of delays in license renewal as a result of corporate mergers and acquisitions and whatnot. If anything happens to change the rate in the future, for better or worse, it will probably be for reasons that are invisible to the average viewer or reader.
Is there that much turmoil, that we cannot get 4 to 6 books a year? Plenty of good Trek writers with many ideas.
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Assuming for the sake of argument all the red tape were not an issue, how long would it take to assimilate new Trek lore, combine it with existing stuff, and put together a publishable book?
About as long as it always has. You're describing a basic part of the job of any author writing a tie-in to an ongoing series. It's not in any way exceptional.
When I was hired to write Enterprise: Rise of the Federation, I rewatched all 98 episodes of ENT twice as research for the series (well, I rewatched most of them twice, but skipped a few duds the second time around). When I was hired to write a Spider-Man novel years earlier, I read the entire 45-ish-year run of The Amazing Spider-Man up to that point and as many other Spidey comics as I could get my hands on. It's a normal part of the job, and it's why we're given months to develop and write a book, ideally a year or more.
And really, the total amount of new Trek lore that's been added since Discovery began 7 years ago isn't that great. Not counting Short Treks, I count only 205 total episodes so far, 90 of which are half-hours, so that's the equivalent of about 160 hourlong episodes. TNG, DS9, and VGR each had over 170 episodes.
I suspect the cause is more likely to be a lack of readers particularly the ones that buy new books. From a publisher's pov, 2 or 3 new novels a year may be all the market will bear.
I think part of the shift is that the market moved away from mass-market paperbacks to trade paperbacks, since e-books have largely replaced MMPBs in the market, or so I've heard. Since trade PBs are bigger, theoretically more prestigious books with a higher price point, there are fewer of them per year. Although that does make me wonder why S&S doesn't get back into Star Trek e-books to take the place of the MMPBs.
But in any case, this is an industry-wide change. It is not about Star Trek specifically.
But in any case, this is an industry-wide change. It is not about Star Trek specifically.
Lower Decks graphic novel?
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