New blurbs - Typhon Pact, SCE, MyU, NF; plus Haynes details!

[DarkHorizon]

Simon & Schuster's catalog website (they changed from releasing seasonal PDFs to a rolling online database a while back) has been updated with more detailed entries for its autumn/winter 2010 Trek releases, including blurbs (although no new covers as yet).

As always, these should not be considered final, and things may (and probably will) change before release.

The straightforward ones first (to build up your excitement!):

SCE: Out of the Cocoon

The twelfth compilation of stories from the bestselling eBook series Corps of Engineers, flashing back to previous adventures of the crew from the 23rd century to the height of the Dominion War—featuring special guests from all across the Star Trek universe!

This compilation of novellas from the bestselling eBook series Star Trek: Corps of Engineers chronicles the adventures of a topflight assemblage of specialists made up of extraordinary humans and exotic aliens who can build, program, and devise everything from alien replicators to doomsday machines. This volume includes Out of the Cocoon by William Leisner, Honor by Kevin Killiany, Blackout by Phaedra M. Weldon, and The Cleanup by Robert T. Jeschonek.

SCE: What's Past

The thirteenth collection of stories from the bestselling eBook series Corps of Engineers, featuring an original cast of characters and events in the Star Trek universe!

This compilation of novellas from the bestselling eBook series Star Trek: Corps of Engineers chronicles the adventures of a topflight assemblage of specialists made up of extraordinary humans and exotic aliens who can build, program, and devise everything from alien replicators to doomsday machines. This volume includes Progress by Terri Osborne, The Future Begins by Steve Mollman & Michael Schuster, Echoes of Coventry by Richard C. White, Distant Early Warning by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore, 10 is Better Than 01 by Heather Jarman, and Many Splendors by Keith R.A. DeCandido.

(I think the intro paragraphs on those two are the wrong way round!)

Myriad Universes: Shattered Light

What began as the exploration of one Star Trek parallel universe explodes with the introduction of six new alternate realities.

Set across history, touching upon every series, and written by a variety of Star Trek authors, each story in Myriad Universes: Shattered Light presents a unique alternate vision of the Star Trek universe, taking pivotal moments from its history and extrapolating the shocking changes that follow those deviations.

In these divergent realms, known history is bent, like white light through a prism—broken into a boundless spectrum of what-might-have-beens. But in those myriad universes, what might have been…is actually what happened.

"six new alternate realities"? But, there are only three stories...

And now, the more extensive stuff!

Typhon Pact: Zero Sum Game

A spy for the Typhon Pact—a new political rival of the Federation—steals the plans for Starfleet’s newest technological advance: the slipstream drive. To stop the Typhon Pact from unlocking its secrets, Starfleet Intelligence recruits a pair of genetically enhanced agents: Dr. Julian Bashir and Sarina Douglas—for whom Bashir has long harbored passionate feelings. The two must infiltrate a world controlled by the mysterious species known as the Breen, find the hidden slipstream project, and destroy it. Meanwhile, light-years away, Captain Ezri Dax and her crew on the U.S.S. Aventine play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with a Typhon Pact fleet that stands between them and the safe retrieval of Bashir and Douglas from hostile territory.

Bashir and Sarina with Ezri!

Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire

Shortly after making the stunning revelation that it has joined with Federation’s newest adversary—a coalition of galactic powers known as the Typhon Pact—the Gorn Hegemony suffers an ecological disaster. Fortunately, the Gorn had already been investigating traces of an ancient but powerful “quick terraforming” technology left behind by a long-vanished race — a dead civilization that may be responsible for habitability of many of the worlds on the Gorn frontier and beyond. When the U.S.S. Titan begins pursuing this potent technology as well, in the hopes of using it to heal the many grievous wounds sustained by the Federation, it is unclear how dangerous such planet-altering technology can be, even when used with the best of intentions…

Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire


[Removed blurb due to S&S posting it by mistake and having since removed it]

New Frontier: Blind Man's Bluff

Following the dramatic events seen in the previous novels, After the Fall, Missing in Action, and Treason, Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and the crew of the U.S.S. Excalibur now face an uncertain future, as their lives and the very fate of Sector 221-G are thrown into utter chaos. With a storyline concurrent with The Next Generation, and picking up at a point where there have been significant changes, new and old readers alike will be captivated by this series.

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EDIT:
Oh, and whilst I'm here, I should add this - the Haynes July-December 2010 catalogue appeared this week (since it's the London Book Fair, and they were there), and this was in it:

 

[Christopher]

(I think the intro paragraphs on those two are the wrong way round!)

Definitely.

Myriad Universes[/I]: Shattered Light
"six new alternate realities"? But, there are only three stories...

I think that's just cut and pasted from the blurb for the first two volumes, which had six tales in all.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Wrong freakin' Enterprise!!

We've seen manuals for the TOS ship since the 70's. I want my 725-meter ubership with 6 warp cores, a gigantic beer brewery engine room and a fleet of shuttles.

Sigh.

 

[JoeP]

Wow, those are some pretty big changes for DS9! Can't wait to read it now. I wonder: is the part about Kira leaving the Bajoran Militia an error (it should be Starfleet), or did she re-join the Militia between books?? Or did I miss something else entirely.

 

[Christopher]

If the Haynes version of the TOS Enterprise is based on Doug Drexler's marvelous cutaway from "In a Mirror, Darkly," which seems a reasonable likelihood if Mike Okuda is consulting, then I'm definitely interested. Not to mention getting cutaways and details for all the other Prime-universe Enterprises. This could do a lot to fill the tech-manual gap of recent years, even without Abramsverse content.

 

[Thrawn]

Oh wow, I cannot WAIT for Rough Beasts of Empire. Those are EXACTLY the kind of huge, emotionally-laden changes I was hoping for from George taking on the time jump. Beautiful.

Plus, Bashir being badass sounds great, and um does that New Frontier blurb mean that NF is also jumping forwards to the concurrent 24th century novels? If so, that's neat. Keeping NF connected to the rest of the stories a bit more appeals to me, even if there are obvious arguments against it.

So excited!!

 

[JD]

Wow, if any of that stuff in the Rough Beasts of Empire description is even half right, it should very interesting. Plus, more secret agent Bashir!

 

[Thrawn]

I'll bet Vaughn's not staying down for long, that's all I'm saying

 

[Stevil2001]

...The Future Begins by Steve Mollman & Michael Schuster...

?

 

[elaithin]

Yeah, I'm really excited for these now, too. *Especially* for Rough Beasts of Empire.

 

[Thrawn]

I want a wordcount for that thing. I'm hoping for 200,000 at least.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I'll bet Vaughn's not staying down for long, that's all I'm saying

True. You don't put that sort of thing in the back cover blurb... and then not have it go anywhere. It's not a selling point for the book, y'know.

 

[MichaelS]

...The Future Begins by Steve Mollman & Michael Schuster...

?

Don't tell me you expected something else...

 

[flandry84]

I'll bet Vaughn's not staying down for long, that's all I'm saying

From your lips to God's ears.
Vaughn is one of the best of the reboot characters.IMO.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong though please.Does this book(DS9)take place 5 years after the Destiny war?Has Vaughn been in a coma for 5 years?

 

[kkozoriz1]

The DS9 story is going to need a ton of backstory filled in. But, did Sisko have to be lonely, fractured and separated from his family? More doom & gloom? I hope not.

 

[flandry84]

Well,Sisko was never going to be the Don Rickles of Starfleet,was he?

 

[Thrawn]

I'll bet Vaughn's not staying down for long, that's all I'm saying

From your lips to God's ears.
Vaughn is one of the best of the reboot characters.IMO.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong though please.Does this book(DS9)take place 5 years after the Destiny war?Has Vaughn been in a coma for 5 years?

The most recent DS9 novel, The Soul Key, took place in early 2377. Destiny took place in early 2381. I believe Typhon Pact takes place in early 2382, or close to it.

So, the 5-year time jump is from Soul Key to Beasts, not from Destiny to Beasts. The Borg invasion is a year or less prior to Typhon Pact.

 

[BrotherBenny]

I'm hoping they provide a few easter eggs for RBOE. And I'm looking forward to them all.

 

[Starbreaker]

Looks like fun stuff. I think it's funny that the authors have been saying that The Typhon Pact isn't necessarily an adversary... and yet they come into direct conflict with Starfleet according to these blurbs.

 

[Defcon]

...The Future Begins by Steve Mollman & Michael Schuster...

?

Don't tell me you expected something else...

What? It's not as if they made the same mistake with the eBook at first and should know better. Oh, wait ....