There is already one Vanguard prequel: Distant Early Warning by the Wardimore duo. It's part the SCE miniseries What's Past, and it follows the crew of the series' 23rd Century SCE ship, the USS Lovell, while they help solve some issues during the building of Vanguard station. It's not 100% necessary to be able to follow the rest of the series (I haven't read it yet, and I've been able to follow the rest of the books fine), but it's story does play a role in the ongoing arc.
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Cool. I ordered a copy. I was going to buy another anyway as I dropped my copy into a puddle on a rainy day, so this works out fine for me.
thats exactly what i did. as stated on the website. davidmack@ff something. dont remember it right now.
amazon.co.uk and amazon.de now have a summary (the back cover blurb?) for Declassified Amazon.com on the other hand has this extensive summary: ETA: Since both of those have been revealed as being inaccurate I've edited the texts out of this post. I've left the links for those curious what the false descriptions look like.
Yes, it really does sound like they're trying to tell some interesting stories with this one. None of those four tales sound "standard" or pedestrian, they sound like they're playing around with the possibilities inherent in the Vanguard setting. Expanding it away from the core story in interesting ways.
Sadly, none of the stories described in that blurb bear any relation to the actual content of the book. That was text from an early sales document, before the stories were actually plotted.
^ I've removed the actual text from my post above to minimize the spread of it. BTW Dayton is also talking about Declassified on his livejournal in reaction to the release of the wrong description(s).
I'm overjoyed to hear there's more Vanguard on the way for 2011. I just picked up the entire series a few weeks ago and am already on Book Four Open Secrets. I'm enjoying the hell out of the series, and love the premise of using original characters in the TOS setting. A big "thank you" to David Mack, Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore. The Vanguard series is some of the best TOS books out there, IMHO.