2018 Releases
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It seems like a no brainer from a marketing perspective to do a 25th anniversary DS9 relaunch/soft reboot event. Something like the Legacy trilogy (which I assume sold well?) with a variety of writers, but set maybe a year in the future from the current books so most of the core characters can be rearranged to be on the station. Something new reader friendly with all the main characters from the show on the covers, and marketed as "Miss DS9? Jump on here".
Or a short story anthology set during the show.
I'd settle for an anthology. I really enjoyed the ones that were put out for TNG's 20th and DS9 and Voyager's tenth, and was actually disappointed Enterprise didn't get one. I know publishing models change, but I'd like to see more of them, especially since it seems like the only way we'll get new in-series material for the non-TOS series...
Well, we did get a three book "TOS 50th anniversary" miniseries in 2016, but prior to that, the last anniversary fiction book we got was The Sky's the Limit which was a TNG 20th anniversary anthology in 2007.
Sounds good to me.
Meh, we already got that for the 10th, I'd rather get some different, like Burning Hearts' miniseries idea.
What about Cold Equations celebrating TNG's 25th in 2012? Also, Headlong Flight from this past year is arguably a 30th anniversary novel for TNG.
I see what your saying, and feel like you - those novels could have been considered anniversary tales. I was simply noting that there was nothing I recall on the front or back cover copy on any of these books, nor (IIRC) anything in the advertising for these books that made me think they were being celebrated as an anniversary tale. The Sky's the Limit, Prophecy and Change and Distant Shores all had cover copy that referenced the 20th or 10th anniversary of their respective series.
IIRC, Cold Equations was promoted as a 25th anniversary tale.
http://www.startrek.com/article/third-discovery-novel-is-fear-itself
The third Discovery novel will be released on June 5. I don’t think anyone’s mentioned it yet. “Fear Itself” is the title.
The third Discovery novel will be released on June 5. I don’t think anyone’s mentioned it yet. “Fear Itself” is the title.
I’m going to guess this is the first novel of the 2018 publishing year. Perhaps once everything with the contract was lined out, another Discovery novel was their first priority. But I’m assuming we’ll get news on another novel after the new year, hopefully for release in July.
I think this is the third of the DSC novels under the old contract. It's way, way too early for anything under the new contract to be announced. Again, remember, the licensing deals have nothing to do with when books are released. Bantam was releasing Trek novels up to 2 years after its license ended, because it generally takes 1-2 years to get a book from contract to publication.
Well crud.
I'd love to find out more about Saru and Kelpians in general, but if they're gonna keep making them bigger so they can whack the price up I think the libraries gonna be my friend on this one...
I remember a time in STO when content development nearly came to a standstill because Atari sold Cryptic Studios. We called it the “Year of Hell”.
Looks like the novel line gets its share of it now.
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