Favourite SNW-Story?

[Mistral]

MAN, I wish that antho would come back.

Indeed,that would be awesome, but also highly unlikely. Especially the Speculations-Part is something I would love to see again in the future. Is Pocket Books accepting Short-story-submissions at all these days or are they just being send back to the authors? If so, given some time, enough stories for a new anthology should come together, even without a contest like SNW.

Yeah, is Pocket putting together a Speculations book? I know about Myriad... but why not a free-flying compilation like the Speculation stories?
Anybody know anything?

 

[GHS]

I'm not completely up to date, but my favorites in the first 7 volumes were

SNW I Private Anecdote

SNW II Doctors Three
Gods, Fate, and Fractals
(and when you throw in Triptych, Almost But Not Quite, and I Am Become Death, I thought volume 2 was the best I've read)

SNW III 93 Hours

SNW IV The Name of the Cat

SNW V Shoulders of Giants

SNW VI Soft Room
End of Night

SNW VII Life's Work
Dawn

I always how many short stories in later Trek anthologies were recycled SNW submissions

 

[TGTheodore]

Checking watch ... casually looking around the ceiling ...

Maybe whistling a few random notes ...

--Ted

 

[KevinK]

Checking watch ... casually looking around the ceiling ...

Maybe whistling a few random notes ...

--Ted

And I've always loved Ted's work!
Like... um. You know ... The stuff he wrote.
(That's the one I couldn't think of the name of in my own list of favorites.) (Really.)

 

[TGTheodore]

Checking watch ... casually looking around the ceiling ...

Maybe whistling a few random notes ...

--Ted

And I've always loved Ted's work!
Like... um. You know ... The stuff he wrote.
(That's the one I couldn't think of the name of in my own list of favorites.) (Really.)

And this other one I can't remember the name of but it had a bunch of Star Trek people in it.....

No, please. Stop. You're embarrassing me ...


--Ted

 

[Lorraine Anderson]

Oh, yeah! Um... that one?

 

[The Great Meech]

Isolation Ward 4 is hard to beat in my book, but, then again, anything related to Far Beyond the Stars is hard to beat in my book.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Is Pocket Books accepting Short-story-submissions at all these days...?

Not unless invited to pitch. Sending in a standalone novel proposal and sample chapters, strictly following the Guidelines, is still the only way for a first-timer to "audition".

 

[Dancing Doctor]

I'm rereading SNW 10, and I remember why I enjoyed and enjoy The Smell of Dead Roses. It's such a moving, fascinating vision of parts of the life of Sarek's last wife, Perrin, and the various situations she deals with, something I can empathize with.

 

[Kopernikus]

What surprises me, is the fact that nobody mentioned "Mestral" in SNW9 here. I read it last evening, definetly one of the best stories I read so far, a very clever continuation of "Carbon Creek", one of my favorite ENT-episodes.

 

[Mistral]

Actually, it was mentioned earlier in the thread. I was talking about it on the first page w/someone, I think.

 

[Brikar99]

What surprises me, is the fact that nobody mentioned "Mestral" in SNW9 here. I read it last evening, definetly one of the best stories I read so far, a very clever continuation of "Carbon Creek", one of my favorite ENT-episodes.

Glad you liked it. But to be perfectly honest, I hated "Carbon Creek". But it did give me the idea for the story, so I guess it wasn't all bad...

Actually, it was mentioned earlier in the thread. I was talking about it on the first page w/someone, I think.

I think that was a different thread. Someone was wondering why the Mestral character didn't show up in one of the novels... I think the "Eugenics Wars" series?

As for my favorites, I really liked the Million Year mission story, myself. And the last Tree on Ferenginar I thought was pretty hilarious.

I don't think I've read an SNW I didn't like. Granted, I've only read a couple of the books, but still - it sounds like there are a ton of great ones I missed.