They already did, and just as much so as the Ferengi Alliance. Both the Cardassian Union and the Ferengi Alliance were signatories to the expanded Khitomer Accords as of Typhon Pact: The Struggle Within.
New Una McCormack novel for October 2012?
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They already did, and just as much so as the Ferengi Alliance. Both the Cardassian Union and the Ferengi Alliance were signatories to the expanded Khitomer Accords as of Typhon Pact: The Struggle Within.
I suppose any novel set in the Alpha/Beta Quadrants that involves large-scale interstellar politics and is set after the Pact's formation could be classed as a "Typhon Pact" story, given that the Pact is integral to everything that's unfolding in them, directly or indirectly (and the big event that in turn prompted the Pact's formation tidied itself up by removing the key instigators from the galaxy). So viewing the Pact books as something akin to the New Jedi Order might be appropriate - if I'm not mistaken, NJO is not just a series but an "era", yes? Star Wars divides its stories into chronological periods, and one corresponds to the NJO precisely? The Destiny trilogy was such a huge rearrangement of the status quo, it's certainly created an unofficial "pre-Destiny/post-Destiny" mindset in many fans and even casual readers. And the Typhon Pact defines the "home space" region in the post-Destiny timeframe. Obviously, we have Voyager, Titan and even DTI in the post-Destiny setting, and they don't revolve around the Pact at all, but the idea of Typhon Pact as an appropriate banner for all the "Alpha-Beta Quadrant Politics" stories seems fine by me.
But yet both of those series were that long from the beginning, a single story told over multiple books rather than one banner encompassing many different, hardly related stories.
The Typhon Pact should be with us (in some form or other) from here on in. To use a real world analogy, the Cold War almost came to a shooting war, became a political power game played out through proxy countries and intelligence agencies before settling / morphing into pretty much regular diplomacy with the old Soviet states.
There's enough there for the forseeable future I think !
There's enough there for the forseeable future I think !
Oh this is just so fucking awesome. Just SO fucking awesome. If you said to me 10 minutes ago "there's a new surprise novel on the schedule next year, you'll LOVE who it is", Una McCormack would've topped the list. Actually, no, Ilsa Bick would have, but she's really unlikely.
Either way, I'm just saying. HELL yes. A one-month delay in getting a Mack trilogy is sad, but this is a seriously exciting announcement and more than makes up for it in my book.
Either way, I'm just saying. HELL yes. A one-month delay in getting a Mack trilogy is sad, but this is a seriously exciting announcement and more than makes up for it in my book.
This totally works for me. As my signature demonstrates, following the linked plotlines through the various series can be hard these days; putting all of the "galactic politics" stuff under one banner is maybe helpful.
Have the dates been pushed back? First one still in May?
But are all 24th century books except Voyager going to be "Typhon Pact" for the next few years or until the Pact is disbanded? I hope there is more going on in the quadrant than just the Typhon Pact and we aren't just going to be dealing with issues revolving around 2 superpowers rattling sabres.
I would also think having lots of books under this banner would make it difficult to attract new readers since they are going to think they are jumping into one big story and be lost.
To be fair...we haven't read the books this year, so we don't know what the intrigue is going to be...
And we have a Titan Book in the middle of the year, and Mack's trilogy is a TNG trifecta, in addition to that we had a TOS book last month...
So all in all, we're not doing bad!
It's the David R. George III duology that begins in May (or technically in June; my Forgotten History is the May book). Dave Mack's trilogy is not yet scheduled, but we've known for some time that it had to be near the end of the year because everything prior to October had been announced already. The schedule as we know it is:
Feb: TOS: The Rings of Time
Mar: TOS: That Which Divides
Apr: VNG: Storming Heaven
May: TOS/DTI: Forgotten History
Jun/Jul: TP: Plagues of Night/Raise the Dawn
Aug: TTN: Fallen Gods
Sep: VGR: The Eternal Tide
Oct: TP: Brinkmanship
Which presumably leaves Nov-Jan for Dave's TNG trilogy, though the scheduling is not official until it's announced.
As you can see above, the 24th century is represented in 2012 by DTI, TNG, VGR, and Titan as well as Typhon Pact.
Well, sure, anything not involving large-scale interstellar politics wouldn't fit under this expanded Typhon Pact banner.
There's room for plenty of adventure stories, local politics, exploration stories, focused character pieces, etc, that are set in the same era but don't concern themselves with the "big picture". Titan will be exploring still (and even its official Pact entry was the least concerned with actual interstellar politics), we've already had DTI: Watching the Clock, which was set in the timeframe without being a Pact story. And even though it featured the Romulans, I doubt anyone would count Indistinguishable From Magic, which is a "pure TNG" book through and through, again despite being chronologically placed in the Pact period. And you mentioned Voyager already. So I don't think we need worry that the Pact will dominate post-Destiny books as a whole, only those that fit the criteria for the label.
Oh wow, so another 3 books I am waiting for. I am SO confused.
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These are all pre-ordered, I'm pleased to report.
And the second half as a run of 24th century leading-edge entries...I can't wait.
So the newest Titan won't be Typhon Pact? Though I have no plans to read it, I understand it is involving the ecosculpter which means maybe the Gorn. Since it continues off a Typhon Pact plot, i thought it might be in that banner also.
Of the original 4, the story I want continued most is Zero Sum Game. I really want to see more of Section 31 trying to manipulate the quadrant and Bashir trying to take them down. Could also go for more Ezri/Aventine. Hopefully McCormack is be doing this.
Of the original 4, the story I want continued most is Zero Sum Game. I really want to see more of Section 31 trying to manipulate the quadrant and Bashir trying to take them down. Could also go for more Ezri/Aventine. Hopefully McCormack is be doing this.
At the moment, it's listed in the Simon & Schuster catalog under the Titan banner. And the description suggests it's more about the aftermath of Andor's succession.
Is Mack trilogy definitely going to marketed as TNG? DRGIII's TP books were originally under their own title before they become Typhon Pact books.
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