2021 books announced

[Christopher]

Interesting. I wonder if this "alien warrior caste" is a new species or one we've seen before.

In a way, it's both. If you're familiar with my approach to post-TMP novels, you'll have a idea what that means.

As for the "OATW," that's from the placeholder title that Margaret came up with for the paperwork before she even saw the proposal -- Of All the Wonders, from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. ("Of all the wonders that I yet have known / It seems to me most strange that men should fear / Knowing that death, a necessary end, / Will come when it will come." I still have that memorized from high school.) Which is actually a cool title and could have almost worked for the secondary plot, but I didn't feel it fit the main story. Living Memory is actually a title I cribbed from one of the Voyager episode pitches I came up with in the '90s, but for a totally unrelated idea.

 

[Jinn]

In a way, it's both. If you're familiar with my approach to post-TMP novels, you'll have a idea what that means.

Do you know what OATW means? Was that an early title for the book that got changed?

 

[Extrocomp]

In a way, it's both. If you're familiar with my approach to post-TMP novels, you'll have a idea what that means.

Are you referring to how you took random unnamed species that were seen in various episodes and gave them names like Aulacri, Brunyg, Chandir, Gororm and Xarantine?

 

[Christopher]

Do you know what OATW means? Was that an early title for the book that got changed?

I edited my post to answer that and evidently cross-posted with you.

Are you referring to how you took random unnamed species that were seen in various episodes and gave them names like Aulacri, Brunyg, Chandir, Gororm and Xarantine?

Nope.

 

[Stevil2001]

The next Discovery novel is by Una McCormack and is about Burnham’s first year in the future. So that should be fun:

https://www.amazon.ca/Star-Trek-Discovery-Wonderlands-7/dp/1982157542

we also got a plot description for Shadows Have offended:
https://www.amazon.ca/Shadows-Have-Offended-Cassandra-Clarke/dp/1982154047

I'm not gonna lie, every time it's announced Una is writing a tie-in novel, I'm a bit disappointed because it means she's not yet publishing an original novel.

 

[David cgc]

In a way, it's both. If you're familiar with my approach to post-TMP novels, you'll have a idea what that means.

Arcturian clone armies?

And I feel like it's reaching, but the reference to Uhura not remembering something from her past made me wonder if you were going to flesh out exactly what happened when Nomad erased her memory and how (or if!) it was recovered.

 

[Markonian]

Whoa!
Very positively surprised we're getting another CLB Trek novel! I thought those days were over.

Interesting. I wonder if this "alien warrior caste" is a new species or one we've seen before.

Assuming it continues the "Ex Machina"-like post-TMP novels, those might be Betelgeusians. In "Face of the Unknown", Sulu inspired one of their argosies to sent young, competing hunters to Starfleet Academy to prove themselves.

 

[Christopher]

Very positively surprised we're getting another CLB Trek novel! I thought those days were over.

Hm? I've had two in the past two years, The Captain's Oath in May 2019 and The Higher Frontier in March 2020.

 

[Markonian]

Hm? I've had two in the past two years, The Captain's Oath in May 2019 and The Higher Frontier in March 2020.

I read both but with new Trek novels having become rare it felt like there wasn't room for hope.

 

[Christopher]

I read both but with new Trek novels having become rare it felt like there wasn't room for hope.

They haven't become rare at all. There were eight novels in 2020, and looking ahead, it looks like there are even more coming in 2021. Here's what's upcoming, going by Simon & Schuster and Amazon:

Jan -- PIC: The Dark Veil
May -- DSC: Wonderlands
Jun -- TOS: Living Memory
Jul -- TNG: Shadows Have Offended
Aug -- "Untitled RE"
Sep-Nov -- Untitled trilogy
Dec -- "Untitled STR"

So it looks like they're having a three-month pause and then resuming a monthly schedule.

 

[Reanok]

Thanks for posting the info about upcoming books Christopher. I'm excited about reading your novel Living memory.

 

[ryan123450]

I hadn’t noticed this about the potential for monthly releases again. That will be welcome news if it becomes permanent.

 

[Anson Mount Seleya]

Both will be day 1 purchases for me (though, on this site, I'm guessing, this will not be a rare occurrence)

Day 1 purchases are so old school. I pre-order everything I'm interested in due out in a particular month near the end of the preceding month.

 

[Enterprise1701]

with new Trek novels having become rare

I feel your sentiment.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The next Discovery novel is by Una McCormack and is about Burnham’s first year in the future. So that should be fun:

https://www.amazon.ca/Star-Trek-Discovery-Wonderlands-7/dp/1982157542

we also got a plot description for Shadows Have offended:
https://www.amazon.ca/Shadows-Have-Offended-Cassandra-Clarke/dp/1982154047

I was really expecting flashbacks to that year during the season, since Michael kept saying how it had changed her. Expecting her to have gone through life-changing revelations and whatnot. And then nothing.

And now this pretty much confirms they've got no plans for that lost year on the show.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

Day 1 purchases are so old school. I pre-order everything I'm interested in due out in a particular month near the end of the preceding month.

I have been getting into the preordering habit more and more as the pandemic continues, considering it reduces exposure risk to stay home and place the order. And I’ve definitely noticed that there have been some books that it’s been harder for me to find at my local B&N that I can guarantee to get online. Looking at my present orders, I think I’m set on upcoming books through April for the time being, and much of the rest of the year is on a dedicated wishlist I can get to as time goes by.

Still, I do miss in-person browsing of the stacks. It’s nice to wander through and discover things that catch the eye. Not really the same online, at least for me.

 

[Christopher]

I was really expecting flashbacks to that year during the season, since Michael kept saying how it had changed her. Expecting her to have gone through life-changing revelations and whatnot. And then nothing.

And now this pretty much confirms they've got no plans for that lost year on the show.

I don't think we need any more explanation than that she was away from the ship and Starfleet for a year and had to learn to live as a courier, without knowing if she'd ever see Discovery again. Of course that's going to change her perspective and priorities. Not every change in a person is the result of some single melodramatic revelation; sometimes it's just cumulative experience, day by day. Getting to see a novel about it is a nice bonus, but it's not as if the season is incomplete without it.

 

[JD]

Good spot! Both seem like interesting tales. Plus another revealed title and blurb on the S&S website - the novel originally listed as OATW is now Living Memory, by Christopher; another in his movie-era works. Blurb follows:

Sounds good, and I like that it's exploring Uhura's history, that's something they never really touched on onscreen. I still haven't read many TOS novels, so I'm not sure how much they have.

I'm not gonna lie, every time it's announced Una is writing a tie-in novel, I'm a bit disappointed because it means she's not yet publishing an original novel.

Actually she's written or co-written 2 novels and 2 novellas, according to her Goodreads page.
Weird Space #3: The Baba Yaga (cowritten with Eric Brown, who wrote the first two boos in the series solo)

Weird Space #4: The Star of The Sea

The Undefeated (only 112 pages, so this might qualify as a novella rather than a novel)

The Greatest Story Ever Told (120, so possibly a novella too)

Her Goodreads book list also includes a whole bunch of anthologies and magazines she must have contributed to.

 

[Christopher]

Sounds good, and I like that it's exploring Uhura's history, that's something they never really touched on onscreen. I still haven't read many TOS novels, so I'm not sure how much they have.

There's been little exploration of her past, which is why I felt it was a story worth doing. Although I drew bits and pieces from various earlier works that touched on her history.

 

[Stevil2001]

Sounds good, and I like that it's exploring Uhura's history, that's something they never really touched on onscreen. I still haven't read many TOS novels, so I'm not sure how much they have.

Actually she's written or co-written 2 novels and 2 novellas, according to her Goodreads page.
Weird Space #3: The Baba Yaga (cowritten with Eric Brown, who wrote the first two boos in the series solo)

Weird Space #4: The Star of The Sea

The Undefeated (only 112 pages, so this might qualify as a novella rather than a novel)

The Greatest Story Ever Told (120, so possibly a novella too)

Her Goodreads book list also includes a whole bunch of anthologies and magazines she must have contributed to.

Yes, the two Weird Space novels take place in someone else's universe, so I am not counting them. (I do intend to read them someday.)

The other two are indeed novellas. I own and read The Undefeated; I should track down the other.