2018 Releases

[Defcon]

Some news from the panel via TrekCore's twitter:

Breaking: #StarTrek novels can now incorporate Kelvin Timeline content as needed - Hobus supernova, etc

This allows #StarTrek novel writers to 'play in another part of the sandbox'

No new 2018 #StarTrek novel announcements yet (save for DSC), license with CBS in process of being renewed. Novels will continue, says panel

 

[Hey Missy]

Trilogy dealing with Romulan refugees and the huge effect it has on the galaxy when?

 

[Mage]

Some news from the panel via TrekCore's twitter:

Well now.....

Perhaps Titan is a contender as well then?

 

[ryan123450]

This is awesome. That is really all there is to say.

 

[Jinn]

(Note to self: in future formulate text)

 

[ryan123450]

Even if we end up getting novels announced for February forward at some point, theres no arguing that something weird hasn't been going on thats lead to us not knowing anything about the novel coming out six months from now.

Says you and no one else.

Well we see how that worked out.

 

[JD]

Some news from the panel via TrekCore's twitter:

Glad to hear it. I hope this means we can finally get the USS Kelvin series I've been dying for since I first saw ST '09 in theaters. It'll be very interesting to see how exactly the Prime Universe stuff from the Kelvin movies will be incorporated.

 

[ryan123450]

Yeah I wasn't focusing on that part. But its good to know you dont know much more than we do. I have my theories and everything you've said here seems to fit with what I'm imagining. Hopefully the end outcome will be a good one.

Basically I'm guessing theres a delay in renewing the licence because Pocket and perhaps CBS was holding out to get everything squared away with the situation with the new films. Perhaps that is taking a while but when its all worked out we'll be back to full steam ahead with a book every month, continued Discovery novels, Kelvin Universe novels, and the destruction of Romulus in the 'present day' books.

Under that situation there will be more seperate series going, so each series will see the spotlight less often, but there would be major benefits to that outcome as well, so thats what I'm holding out hope for at this point.

Looks like my musings earlier today were spot on.

 

[USS Firefly]

Finally!

 

[Thrawn]

Yay!

 

[Tirius]

Lots of people breathing a sign of relief. Well, except for the inhabitants of novelverse Romulus perhaps...

 

[ryan123450]

I'm still wondering if we'll end up with a few months gap in early 2018, or if they'll somehow be able to crank out a novel by March, assuming Discovery #2 is in Feb.

 

[Corran Horn]

Are we 'yaying' the 'novels will continue'? Seems kinda loose for a 'yay'.

 

[ryan123450]

Well I suppose that was not a given. But I think everyone is mostly 'yaying' the licence expanding to cover the Kelvin Universe which opens up both that setting and post 2386 Prime Timeline.

 

[JD]

That was what I was happy about. I wasn't worried about the books not continuing, so that news wasn't that big of a deal to me.

 

[Paul Weaver]

How far did the original kelvinverse books that were going ot be written then cancelled get? Any chance of them being release?

 

[ryan123450]

They were completed in their entirety. But I doubt they will be released as at least two of them were already rewritten as Prime Timeline novels.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I doubt they will be released as at least two of them were already rewritten as Prime Timeline novels.

Really? Which two? We can rule out Alan Dean Foster's.

 

[ryan123450]

In another thread yesterday it was talked about how No Time Like the Past and Face of the Unknown were reworked from those authors Kelvinverse books.

 

[Hey Missy]

In another thread yesterday it was talked about how No Time Like the Past and Face of the Unknown were reworked from those authors Kelvinverse books.

Very interesting... in fact, the cover blurbs for Cox's The Hazard of Concealing and No Time Like the Past are almost the same!