Deep Space Nine follow-on books

[Edinburgh]

Looking to start reading the follow-on books from the show. From the information i can find on the net there are a number of books. I'm just not to sure where to start. Obviously i want to start where the show finished. I would prefer to stick to the cast of DS9.
Or should i read them all......

Anyone got recommendations on what book i should start with.

 

[Robotech Master]

I think there is some information about that here-

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=28304

Near the end are all the books for the DS9 Relaunch listed in proper reading order.

 

[Edinburgh]

I think there is some information about that here-

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=28304

Near the end are all the books for the DS9 Relaunch listed in proper reading order.

Thanks mate. Was hoping to find out if its a must, to read all the books. Would love to read them all but i do take my time when reading books.

 

[Astraea]

There are books which are technically "optional" if you don't want to follow the main story line; i.e. you can leave out things like "The Left Hand of Destiny I and II" or "The Lives of Dax" or even "Rising Son." But the problem is, if you skip those, you're going to miss some really, really good stories; the quality of the DS9R is so high that I wouldn't skip any of it. If you really wanted to, you could read through the ones that do follow a continual storyline (Mission: Gamma, WoDS9, Avatar, Unity, etc.) and then go back and read the ones that don't afterwards, but I'd still recommend seeking them all out.

 

[Myasishchev]

I read the Cardassia/Andor Worlds of Deep Space Nine book and was so bored I only finished one of the stories, and that one was dull too. How do you take a species that has four-person orgies as a matter of course and make that boring? That's almost superhuman.

 

[Lateralus]

^^^The Cardassia story was fairly intriguing, albeit slow. The Andor story is one of the worst things I have ever read.

 

[Jono]

Here is a more up-to-date list of the relaunch and related stuff- DS9 relaunch

 

[Akiraprise]

I would start with Twist of Faith. It's an omnibus of the first few relaunch novels. If you like it then continue on.

 

[Thor Damar]

^^^The Cardassia story was fairly intriguing, albeit slow. The Andor story is one of the worst things I have ever read.

I'll go on record as stating that the Andorians are the worst part of the DSR I always skip the pages were they make an appearance. ENT handled the Andorians more effectively in my opinion (and I cannot believe that I just said that!).
The only part that is worst is the oh so typical estranged father subplot that drags down so many of the relaunch novels.

 

[Edinburgh]

I would start with Twist of Faith. It's an omnibus of the first few relaunch novels. If you like it then continue on.

Excellent.

This will be a first.

Thanks to all again.

 

[Myasishchev]

^^^The Cardassia story was fairly intriguing, albeit slow. The Andor story is one of the worst things I have ever read.

I'll go on record as stating that the Andorians are the worst part of the DSR I always skip the pages were they make an appearance. ENT handled the Andorians more effectively in my opinion (and I cannot believe that I just said that!).

Damn that's cold.

 

[Thor Damar]

^^^The Cardassia story was fairly intriguing, albeit slow. The Andor story is one of the worst things I have ever read.

I'll go on record as stating that the Andorians are the worst part of the DSR I always skip the pages were they make an appearance. ENT handled the Andorians more effectively in my opinion (and I cannot believe that I just said that!).

Damn that's cold.

I know, sometimes I shock even myself! It helps that Jeff Combs was playing of the first Andorians that we see in ENT of course.

Getting back on topic I've really enjoyed all the DS9R and would recommend them to anyone interested in reading great Sci-Fi.

 

[Marie1]

^^^The Cardassia story was fairly intriguing, albeit slow. The Andor story is one of the worst things I have ever read.

I'll go on record as stating that the Andorians are the worst part of the DSR I always skip the pages were they make an appearance. ENT handled the Andorians more effectively in my opinion (and I cannot believe that I just said that!).
The only part that is worst is the oh so typical estranged father subplot that drags down so many of the relaunch novels.

Really? They live on the edge of attacking, they hiss, they're always trying to get into fights... or drunken parties...

But yeah, start with ToF, and you'll be addicted...
Rising Son is neat, and I can't stand Jake, so that's saying something.

 

[Myasishchev]

^Sure, if there's anything Star Trek's missing it's a warrior race.

:hirogen::jemhadar:

I really like the (basically novel-only) concept of the Andorians. I can't say my first introduction to them really made me want to see more, insofar as that introduction was supposed to get into the nitty-gritty of their social organization and politics, and there didn't seem to be that much to it.

Also, Andor seems unseasonably warm the whole time. I guess it was written before ENT made the RPG stuff basically canon.

 

[Thor Damar]

I don't really have a problem with the Andorians as a race and what little we got of their culture was interesting, but I didn't like the way the story was handled with main Andorian character. There was too much obvious soap opera angst with the 'family' and the suicide, I'm sorry but that kinda stuff just doesn't work for me.
(of course all of the above is strictly my own opinion and in no way detracts from the sheer brilliance of the DS9R novels. I also must confess to not having read the 'Andor' segment from 'the worlds of DS9).
I would not have minded page after page of Gul Macet bemoaning his unfortunate resemblance to Gul Dukat, but then I like reading about Cardassian stuff.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

^^^The Cardassia story was fairly intriguing, albeit slow. The Andor story is one of the worst things I have ever read.

I'll go on record as stating that the Andorians are the worst part of the DSR I always skip the pages were they make an appearance. ENT handled the Andorians more effectively in my opinion (and I cannot believe that I just said that!).
The only part that is worst is the oh so typical estranged father subplot that drags down so many of the relaunch novels.

Glad somebody said it. I could not finish the Andor story in Worlds, it was the gaggiest, boringest teen fantasy thing I've ever tried to wade through.

And the whole estranged father thing just dragged on and on..and was still dragging on in Warpath as I recall. It's boring as all crap and whatever tension it's supposedly adding is non-existent. I wish they would both just die and stop almost dying or thinking the other one had died or feeling guilty that they might have chosen one to die or left the mother to die or..

Now that I got that bitterness out of my system I have to say that the first two books, Avatar and Avatar 2 are some of the highlights of trek reading for me. Just fantastic stuff, I could not put them down. The whole of DS9 relaunch has been picking up for me post Mission Gamma era. Braiding the relaunches together into Destiny did not disappoint.

So OP, at least read the first couple books

 

[Myasishchev]

I don't really have a problem with the Andorians as a race and what little we got of their culture was interesting, but I didn't like the way the story was handled with main Andorian character. There was too much obvious soap opera angst with the 'family' and the suicide, I'm sorry but that kinda stuff just doesn't work for me.
(of course all of the above is strictly my own opinion and in no way detracts from the sheer brilliance of the DS9R novels. I also must confess to not having read the 'Andor' segment from 'the worlds of DS9).

That's one of the major aspects of Paradigm (the story from Worlds of DS9), yeah. The plot's actually halfway decent, but extremely thin, and the pacing is awful. The story just drags for pages at a time with nothing interesting going on. Shar is so stoic it's hard to get anywhere with him, even with the tragedy in his background; and the human girl, Vaughn's daughter or whatever, makes strange decisions with little rational basis, and although I'll grant that seems to be the point, it still struggles to be even mildly interesting. The setting as a whole is very underwhelming, deeply in contrast to Duane's Rihannsu books and Spock's World to which Worlds of DS9's back cover explicitly compares it too.

It does have some interesting facets to it. The part where what'shername stumbles on an Andorian classroom where they're teaching children how to properly fuck so they can repopulate their dying species and have fun doing it is creepy and alien, but played straight in such a manner as to make you question your own preconceptions. If the whole story was like that (you know, in tone, not just Andorian sex ed ), it would've been fantastic. But between doing Howard's End-level stilted, sparkless character drama and the devolution into a mundane hostage plot, its good ideas are drowned in a sea of meh.

And yet it was still better than the Cardassian story, I'm afraid, which I could not finish at all. I got like sixty pages into it and Keiko and Miles are still in a damned field somewhere, dealing professionally with a faintly annoying woman of intolerance. AWESOME.

 

[Thor Damar]

I don't really have a problem with the Andorians as a race and what little we got of their culture was interesting, but I didn't like the way the story was handled with main Andorian character. There was too much obvious soap opera angst with the 'family' and the suicide, I'm sorry but that kinda stuff just doesn't work for me.
(of course all of the above is strictly my own opinion and in no way detracts from the sheer brilliance of the DS9R novels. I also must confess to not having read the 'Andor' segment from 'the worlds of DS9).

That's pretty much one of the major aspects of Paradigm (the story from Worlds of DS9). The plot's actually halfway decent, but extremely thin, and the pacing is awful. The story just drags for pages at a time with nothing interesting going on. Shar is so stoic it's hard to get anywhere with him, even with the tragedy in his background; and the human girl, Vaughn's daughter or whatever, makes strange decisions with little rational basis, and although I'll grant that seems to be the point, it still struggles to be even mildly interesting. The setting as a whole is very underwhelming, deeply in contrast to Duane's Rihannsu books and Spock's World to which Worlds of DS9's back cover explicitly compares it too.

It does have some interesting facets to it. The part where what'shername stumbles on an Andorian classroom where they're teaching children how to properly fuck so they can repopulate their dying species and have fun doing it is creepy and alien, but played straight in such a manner as to make you question your own preconceptions. If the whole story was like that (you know, in tone, not just Andorian sex ed ), it would've been fantastic. But between doing Howard's End-level stilted, sparkless character drama and the devolution into a mundane hostage plot, its good ideas are drowned in a sea of meh.

And yet it was still better than the Cardassian story, I'm afraid, which I could not finish at all. I got like sixty pages into it and Keiko and Miles are still in a damned field somewhere, dealing professionally with a faintly annoying woman of intolerance. AWESOME.

I must confess that I only read the 'lotus Flower' once and cannot quite remember the whole thing. I do have a weakness for Cardassian stories and would definitely enjoy it as I have any short story or novel featuring the Cardies. (with the possible exception of Andrew J Robinson's 'The Calling' from 'Prophecy and Change')

 

[Myasishchev]

Is Stitch in Time good? I've been meaning to pick that up at some point, if for no other reason than it's testament to the awesome fact that Robinson gives so much of a damn about his character that he wrote a whole novel about him.

 

[Thor Damar]

Is Stitch in Time good? I've been meaning to pick that up at some point, if for no other reason than it's testament to the awesome fact that Robinson gives so much of a damn about his character that he wrote a whole novel about him.

A Stitch in Time, is in my opinion one of the finest trek novels that I have ever read. Robinson does a great job in showing us what Cardassian society looks like and he does a fantastic job of making Garak into an even more sympathetic character.
It's a sheer delight to read because AJR's writing skills easily match or even exceed his superb acting skills.
To be honest my words alone cannot do it justice but I would heartily recommend this fine work of art to everyone who is interested in DS9.