Me three!!!
Best Star Trek author?
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Me three!!!
If you're interested in the Mirror Universe, there is also a Mirror Universe story in the short story collection Shards and Shadows. Although I wouldn't recommend reading any of that until you've read the previous two MU collections, Glass Empires and Obsidian Alliances. Each one of those features 3 different novellas focusing on a different series. I loved the whole series, so I would highly recommend reading all of them.
Thanks for the suggestions, Thrawn and JD. I already have the 3 Mirror Universe trades, the 2 Myriad Universes trades, Tales of the Dominion War, Mere Anarchy, Constellations, The Sky's the Limit, and Prophecy and Change on my bookshelf waiting to be read. I don't have any Vanguard, but I will keep that series in mind once I get through a good chunk of what I already have.
Like I said, I have a LOT to read, but I'm really looking forward to it.
Like I said, I have a LOT to read, but I'm really looking forward to it.
Don't forget KRAD's masterpiece: Articles of the Federation, that establishes some background about Federation politics and it's President, Nan Bacco, which also appears in Destiny.
Did you read any Titan-novels yet? Could be helpful to be a bit familiar with the Titan, before starting Destiny. And if you like TNG, you'll certainly like Titan.
yeah, TITAN is great.
Except for the constant punning. That gets old pretty quick.
And the limericks.
What's that about?
Except for the constant punning. That gets old pretty quick.
And the limericks.
What's that about?
I guess I'll throw out that David R. George III is my favorite Trek author. Provenance of Shadows and Serpents Among the Ruins are quite simply among the best, if not the best, Trek lit ever written (especially PoS).
Many others should be included on the list as well that many others have already written about. One thing that is certain: despite the current turmoil and uncertainty surrounding Trek lit, it has been in awesome hands for the past several years.
Many others should be included on the list as well that many others have already written about. One thing that is certain: despite the current turmoil and uncertainty surrounding Trek lit, it has been in awesome hands for the past several years.
Huh... I agree with each and every one of these...
DRGIII & Greg Cox deserve mention though too.
i've only ever read DRG3's 'Iron and Sacrifice', so i can't judge.
as for Greg...
Best at Shoe-horning in Every Fan-Wank Reference Possible?
as for Greg...
Best at Shoe-horning in Every Fan-Wank Reference Possible?
I proudly accept this title, and would like to thank all the people who made it possible: the Gorns, the Hortas, the tribbles, Gary Seven, Roberta Lincoln, Rain Robinson, the whales from Star Trek IV, Janeway's great-grand-aunt, and that guy from "The Doomsday Machine" who had two lines . . . .
and as a prize, the committee would like to present you with a box set of Season 4 of Enterprise.
My favourites are the writers of my favourite series, Titan, Vanguard and DS9-R with the addition of KRAD for Articles of the Federation.
David Mack is the first one to come to mind. His work on Vanguard is solid and he hit the Destiny Trilogy out of the park. My hat is off to any writer that can successfully manage and spotlight four distinct crews over three books.
Una McCormack really impressed me with the outstanding Never-Ending Sacrifice. I say we hand over the DS9 relaunch reins to her.
Una McCormack really impressed me with the outstanding Never-Ending Sacrifice. I say we hand over the DS9 relaunch reins to her.
Since I've made three contributions to the DS9-R (Demons of Air and Darkness, "Horn and Ivory," and the Ferengi portion of WoDS9), you don't need that addition, as I was covered by your initial comment, but I appreciate the thought regarding Articles.
mine are (no particular order...)
Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Dean Wesley Smith and Kathryn Rusch
Keith R.A. deCandido
David R. George III
Peter David
W R Thompson (he's only written 2 novels but they're among my favorites)
Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Dean Wesley Smith and Kathryn Rusch
Keith R.A. deCandido
David R. George III
Peter David
W R Thompson (he's only written 2 novels but they're among my favorites)
my opinion of Greg Cox....he's very imaginative....i LOVED the Q-continuum but there was one problem...he's long winded...extremely....it took him 3 pages to describe a series of events that could be apty described in half a page....
he probably could have written the whole events of that story line in one standard novel if he didnt write the way he did....
for that reason, i've postponed reading the Khan novels...
he probably could have written the whole events of that story line in one standard novel if he didnt write the way he did....
for that reason, i've postponed reading the Khan novels...
For what it's worth, THE Q CONTINUUM was my first attempt at a trilogy and I'll admit I struggled with the pacing a bit, especially in the second book . . . .
Nowadays, however, I find it very hard to write short stories because I keep trying to turn them into novels!
In order:
Andrew J. Robinson (A Stitch In Time): Of all Star Trek authors, he most successfully examined the human (Cardassian) condition from a philosophical perspective. His writing is as illuminating as it is moving and involving.
Heather Jarman (Paradigm, This Gray Spirit): I love everything about her writing, from it's clarity and complexity, to the outstanding story of love she wrote between Shar and Prynn. This Gray Spirit was excellent, but Paradigm was magnificent.
David R. George III (Serpents Among the Ruins, Twilight, Provenance of Shadows): When I first read Twilight, I wondered if there might be something wrong with me. I had thoroughly enjoyed every Star Trek book I'd read in the preceding six months (the first five novels of the Deep Space Nine relaunch), and was greatly admiring the novel in my hands. I've since realized that there was nothing wrong with me, but there was something outstanding about the work of David R. George III. Twilight and Serpents Among the Ruins were masterpieces. Someday, I should read Iron and Sacrifice.
Julia Ecklar (The Kobayashi Maru): I've never read a book that surprised me so much as The Kobayashi Maru. It was initially a struggle to read, so bored was I by the accident which contrives to develop the books real plots. But those plots themselves ultimately proved excellent. Sulu's and Chekov's stories presented illuminating problems, and Kirk's experience with the Kobayashi Maru (and his unique solution to another officer's predicament) was nearly as valuable. As much as I love some other novels, I value this one as highly as A Stitch In Time or Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game.
Diane Duane (The Romulan Way, My Enemy, My Ally, Dark Mirror, The Empty Chair, Swordhunt): Dark Mirror was the first of Duane's novels that I read; it remains one of my favorite Star Trek books. Her true masterpiece, however, is the Rihannsu saga, which I first encountered in the form of The Romulan Way. The novel itself is excellently plotted, but the world it presents is captivating. Years after my first reading of that book, I encountered the rest of the Rihannsu series. I came to love Terise, Ael, her relationship with Kirk, and the difficult honor of true Romulans as much as I first loved the tortured history of Romulus. Duane's writing is diminished only by her love of strange aliens and the odd (and very 1980s) future social norms she sometimes predicts.
David Mack (Reap the Whirlwind, A Time To Heal, A Time to Kill, Harbinger, Precipice): A Time To Heal was a revelation. When I first read an excerpt from it, having not read A Time To Kill, my impression was of yet another shallowly-conceived The Next Generation novel. It was nothing of the kind. It was, simply, a parable of futility. And it was brilliant. Harbinger ably established the Vanguard series, but its eventual sequel Reap the Whirlwind (also a sequel to Dayton Ward's and Kevin Dilmore's very good stories Summon the Thunder and Distant Early Warning) epitomizes the term tour de force. It remains one of the few outstanding examples in fiction of a work which is consistently high in intensity, yet eminently complex and intelligent. [d]David[/b]'s tale is simultaneously intimately human and grand beyond understanding. It stands as a true achievement.
S. D. Perry (Rising Son, Avatar, Unity): I have seldom been so moved by a book as I was by Rising Son. It was a type of story I generally avoid, but one I bought on the strength of the name S. D. Perry had earned with Avatar (strange that two early Deep Space Nine relaunch titles are now famous for other series). And I was devastated by the death of Stess. The novel was far more than it should have been, if only for the remarkable work of Ms. Perry (and, I'm sure, Marco Palmieri).
Andrew J. Robinson (A Stitch In Time): Of all Star Trek authors, he most successfully examined the human (Cardassian) condition from a philosophical perspective. His writing is as illuminating as it is moving and involving.
Heather Jarman (Paradigm, This Gray Spirit): I love everything about her writing, from it's clarity and complexity, to the outstanding story of love she wrote between Shar and Prynn. This Gray Spirit was excellent, but Paradigm was magnificent.
David R. George III (Serpents Among the Ruins, Twilight, Provenance of Shadows): When I first read Twilight, I wondered if there might be something wrong with me. I had thoroughly enjoyed every Star Trek book I'd read in the preceding six months (the first five novels of the Deep Space Nine relaunch), and was greatly admiring the novel in my hands. I've since realized that there was nothing wrong with me, but there was something outstanding about the work of David R. George III. Twilight and Serpents Among the Ruins were masterpieces. Someday, I should read Iron and Sacrifice.
Julia Ecklar (The Kobayashi Maru): I've never read a book that surprised me so much as The Kobayashi Maru. It was initially a struggle to read, so bored was I by the accident which contrives to develop the books real plots. But those plots themselves ultimately proved excellent. Sulu's and Chekov's stories presented illuminating problems, and Kirk's experience with the Kobayashi Maru (and his unique solution to another officer's predicament) was nearly as valuable. As much as I love some other novels, I value this one as highly as A Stitch In Time or Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game.
Diane Duane (The Romulan Way, My Enemy, My Ally, Dark Mirror, The Empty Chair, Swordhunt): Dark Mirror was the first of Duane's novels that I read; it remains one of my favorite Star Trek books. Her true masterpiece, however, is the Rihannsu saga, which I first encountered in the form of The Romulan Way. The novel itself is excellently plotted, but the world it presents is captivating. Years after my first reading of that book, I encountered the rest of the Rihannsu series. I came to love Terise, Ael, her relationship with Kirk, and the difficult honor of true Romulans as much as I first loved the tortured history of Romulus. Duane's writing is diminished only by her love of strange aliens and the odd (and very 1980s) future social norms she sometimes predicts.
David Mack (Reap the Whirlwind, A Time To Heal, A Time to Kill, Harbinger, Precipice): A Time To Heal was a revelation. When I first read an excerpt from it, having not read A Time To Kill, my impression was of yet another shallowly-conceived The Next Generation novel. It was nothing of the kind. It was, simply, a parable of futility. And it was brilliant. Harbinger ably established the Vanguard series, but its eventual sequel Reap the Whirlwind (also a sequel to Dayton Ward's and Kevin Dilmore's very good stories Summon the Thunder and Distant Early Warning) epitomizes the term tour de force. It remains one of the few outstanding examples in fiction of a work which is consistently high in intensity, yet eminently complex and intelligent. [d]David[/b]'s tale is simultaneously intimately human and grand beyond understanding. It stands as a true achievement.
S. D. Perry (Rising Son, Avatar, Unity): I have seldom been so moved by a book as I was by Rising Son. It was a type of story I generally avoid, but one I bought on the strength of the name S. D. Perry had earned with Avatar (strange that two early Deep Space Nine relaunch titles are now famous for other series). And I was devastated by the death of Stess. The novel was far more than it should have been, if only for the remarkable work of Ms. Perry (and, I'm sure, Marco Palmieri).
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