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Rise Like Lions - A Mirror Universe saga

David Mack said:
^ Save your postage. I just signed a contract to write the book and returned said contract to Jaime Costas this afternoon. Houston, we're a go!
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Well that's just about the best possible response to that post I could've hoped for :lol:

Congratulations!

Hot damn. The Department of Temporal Investigations, Beyer-Voyager, a Geordi epic, a different kind of Vanguard book with a story from Marco, and the conclusion of the Memory Omega storyline, not to mention the last two Typhon Pact books. Even if all the other 5 MMPBs next year suck, it's gonna be a good one.
 
Thrawn said:
Hot damn. The Department of Temporal Investigations, Beyer-Voyager, a Geordi epic, a different kind of Vanguard book with a story from Marco, and the conclusion of the Memory Omega storyline, not to mention the last two Typhon Pact books. Even if all the other 5 MMPBs next year suck, it's gonna be a good one.
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Agreed. It keeps looking better and better. :)
 
Thrawn said:
David Mack said:
^ Save your postage. I just signed a contract to write the book and returned said contract to Jaime Costas this afternoon. Houston, we're a go!
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Well that's just about the best possible response to that post I could've hoped for :lol:

Congratulations!

Hot damn. The Department of Temporal Investigations, Beyer-Voyager, a Geordi epic, a different kind of Vanguard book with a story from Marco, and the conclusion of the Memory Omega storyline, not to mention the last two Typhon Pact books. Even if all the other 5 MMPBs next year suck, it's gonna be a good one.
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Oh yeah, I'm with you there my friend. IMO it's looking like next year could be one of Trek Lit's best, or at least most unique.
 
David Mack said:
^ Save your postage. I just signed a contract to write the book and returned said contract to Jaime Costas this afternoon. Houston, we're a go!
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Ok, now that you've had a couple hours, done yet? :p

Just finished reading the paperback 'expanded' version, and looking forward to seeing how Spock's plan all works out.

How about now? :)
 
David Mack said:
^ Well, this is where I mea culpa: I was supposed to take that out at editing and I forgot.

Bottom line: though I have proposed such a project, it has not yet been approved by CBS or Pocket or in any way contracted for. When I wrote the About the Author page on the expanded version of The Sorrows of Empire, neither I nor Margaret had any idea she was soon to be laid off, and she had been keen to acquire Rise Like Lions.

It's my hope I will get to move forward on the project this year, but this is a case in which I, quite simply, spoke too soon. I apologize to my readers, and to my editors and publisher for the confusion.
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Statements like this make TrekLit readers cry. Please, won't someone think of the readers?

Edit: And I should have finished the thread first. WOO!
 
Hells Bells this is fantastic news.

So much potential awesome, just waiting to be read next year.

So very happy right now...

Grats to David Mack.
 
ALRIGHT--YIP-YIP-YIP-YIP-YAH-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!


Hey--BTW...the more I read of Mirror Spock having a coldly logical plan to bring about the destruction of the Terran Empire...for the greater good...the more I'm somehow reminded of Atlas Shrugged, and the mysterious-yet-coldly-logical plan concieved by John Galt--a plan of total destruction of the old system.

"Who is Emperor Spock?", to coin a phrase. He's stopping the motor of the Empire....

Was that intentional, Mr. Mack, or pure coincindence? :)
 
Hartzilla2007 said:
So I take it the Klingon/Cardassian alliance is about to get its ass kicked.
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I think the goal is more to subvert the ideologies and methods of empire rather than actually "kick ass". Surely if those of Memory Omega are truly in keeping with Spock's intent, they'll want to see Cardassia and Qo'noS free from those ideologies and tyrannies just like anywhere else? Is not the goal to bring down empire itself, not any one individual regime? At least that's how Spock sold it. :) Truly defeating the Cardassians and Klingons would just make the rebels the new overlords and keep the cycle going.

I'll be interested in seeing if Memory Omega truly succeeds in its goals, or is simply victorious militarily but not ideologically- and just overthrows the Alliance to create the Terran Empire mark two. Or goes genocidal on the Cardassians and Klingons.
 
Rush Limborg said:
Hey--BTW...the more I read of Mirror Spock having a coldly logical plan to bring about the destruction of the Terran Empire...for the greater good...the more I'm somehow reminded of Atlas Shrugged, and the mysterious-yet-coldly-logical plan concieved by John Galt--a plan of total destruction of the old system.

"Who is Emperor Spock?", to coin a phrase. He's stopping the motor of the Empire....

Was that intentional, Mr. Mack, or pure coincindence? :)
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The inspiration for Mirror Spock and his Memory Omega plan was inspired much more directly by the character of Hari Seldon in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series. I've never read any Ayn Rand (I tried once and found her prose style abominable).
 
Spock said that their empires would collapse. "The end of ours will be the end of theirs." No hegemonic empire can last indefinitely, internal and external forces (resistance/dissident movements and other political entities respectively) will force a regime change eventually.
 
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