There's a feature by Ed Gross about the cancelled JJverse books in this month's Sci Fi Now - I just saw it in the newsagent this lunchtime. There are even quotes about them by the authors, including the rare and elusive "Charles L Bennett"!
JJVerse Novels - Why they were cancelled
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^Well, that can't be Ed Gross's mistake, since he got my name right when he interviewed me.
It says Christopher in the intro at the start of the article, and Charles thereafter...
I'm not surprised, either, since I was beating the drum for something like this at Pocket two years ago. Glad they finally saw things my way
Honestly, I think that what Team Abrams and Bad Robot are doing is smart. They don't want the novels and the films to contradict one another. I feel the same way. And while Pocket Books is probably pissed that they can't cash in on these new novels now, I think that it will end up working out better for the fans. We love our continuity and consistency in the novels. By delaying the abramsverse books until after the sequel has been written will allow for the stories on and off the screen to flow together much more smoothly.
Once again, the Supreme Court analogy works really well here.
Think of a judicial nominee appearing before the US Senate during confirmation hearings (or even an existing Supreme Court justice in an interview) being asked about a case which appeared in the lower courts, and whether that justice would rule differently. (Roe v. Wade is a popular one in the States, for example.) "Justice Orci" is essentially saying, "As you know, this is my view of the existing case law, and how I've approached decisions in my own court in the past, but now that I'm on the Supreme Court, I really couldn't comment on how a decision would go until a specific case came up before it and all of the justices were involved."
I'd like to see a 700-page Wardilmore novel set entirely in Pike's basement, which follows his sometimes futile efforts to write his Kelvin dissertation.
IMO they can be consistant all they want, starting with the second wave of nuTrek books. I want those first four!
I'd like to see a 700-page Wardilmore novel set entirely in Pike's basement, which follows his sometimes futile efforts to write his Kelvin dissertation.
Cue sound of Dayton and Kevin cursing and deleting the proposal for Christopher Pike and the Basement Dissertation of Doom from their hard drives...
I've been wanting Kelvin novels since I saw the ship blow up the first time I watched the movie. TBH, I'm kinda suprised we haven't heard anything about some yet, it's the perfect new series. I wouldn't complain about some Abramsverse Pike stories either.
I know of Ed Gross's article about the postponed books on the SciFiTVZone site, but I was unaware of one on Sci Fi Now. Do you have a link for that?
Well, I know I certainly remembered to include one. Since Kirk is a positive agent for change, and he ends up hanging from something, does that make him a dangling modifier? (running now to dodge the well-deserved deluge of rotten fruit headed my way)
It's a print magazine in the UK - I don't think the article's on their website.
http://www.scifinow.co.uk/about/
The link you posted does say that an expanded version of that feature will be in #38 of that magazine...
Ah. Yes, I grok now. Thanks.
Christopher,David & Greg, I'm sorry your books got postponed,I was really looking forward to reading your books. I'm hopeing your books get to see the light of day someday. Do you think these books might get published around after the next movie is out? I'm really hoping they will, as I'm still very much interested reading them. I'm glad that there will still be tie-in to the movie even if its during thier time at the Starfleet Acdemay. I will like to read these books as well, even if it for young readers. I just hope these books don't get postpone like the others did.
I hope they will, but it's premature to think they will. I guess it depends on how compatible they are with the next movie, and with the other tie-ins that are being done like the YA Academy books. If they're close enough, it may be possible to tweak them to fit, but it's also possible that whatever happens in the next movie would require scuttling one or more of them altogether.
If that happened, maybe they could be reworked as Prime-universe TOS novels, but that might be prohibitively hard given that they were specifically designed to be unambiguously set in the Abramsverse. At least it would probably require major rewriting.
Maybe another alternate universe could be created....
Well, it's either that or "Abramsverse." Nobody seems to have come up with a more viable name for it yet.
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