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Emissary of the Prophets

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I've been out of the loop for a while. The last Trek books I read were the Destiny Trilogy. Due to work and studying for a managerial qualification, I haven't had a lot of time for reading. I've been buying the books all along, but I have lost track of which order they should be read in. Can someone help me out with the correct reading order? It's time I got back on the horse, as it were.
Thanks in advance.
 
I think the chronological reading order post Destiny is: (feel free to correct me though)

TNG: Lossing the Peace
A Singular Destiny
VOY: Full Circle
VOY: Unworthy
VOY: Children of the Storm
VOY: The Eternal Tide
Titan: Over a Torrent Sea
Titan: Synthesis
DTI: Watching the Clock
DTI: Forgotton History
Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
Typhon Pact: Zero Sum Game
Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire
Typhon Pact: Paths of Disharmony
Titan: Fallen Gods
TNG: Indistinguishable From Magic
Typhon Pact: Plagues of Night
Typhon Pact: Raise the Dawn
 
I've been buying the books all along, but I have lost track of which order they should be read in.

Look inside at the page backing the title page. The month and year of publication are right there. Put 'em in order and you'll be able to read them in the order Pocket released them. When Pocket feels that chronological order is of paramount importance, they release them that way.
 
Warning: VOY: The Eternal Tide contains a massive spoiler for Typhon Pact: Paths of Disharmony.
 
Warning: VOY: The Eternal Tide contains a massive spoiler for Typhon Pact: Paths of Disharmony.

Really? I thought it was set about a year before that book. Are you sure you don't mean Titan: Fallen Gods, which is something of a sequel to the events of PoD?
 
Warning: VOY: The Eternal Tide contains a massive spoiler for Typhon Pact: Paths of Disharmony.

Really? I thought it was set about a year before that book.

Without spoiling anything, a certain character in The Eternal Tide briefly ponders events that haven't occurred yet (EDIT: that's not an error, by the way; the character in question has knowledge of the future and is reflecting on it silently) so it has a spoiler for PoD despite indeed taking place a year beforehand.
 
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If the OP doesn't want to read them in publication order, I'd personally recommend the following order (which is loosely chronological):

A Singular Destiny
TNG: Losing the Peace (It's mostly set before A Singular Destiny, but Losing the Peace's epilogue contains a spoiler for that novel, albeit regarding something you might well know already - so perhaps it's best to read that one first even if you are going for the in-universe chronological approach)
VOY: Full Circle (The first half is set before Destiny, directly after Spirit Walk, the second half set in the weeks after Destiny).
VOY: Unworthy
Titan: Over A Torrent Sea (post-Destiny Titan and Voyager Relaunch are set in different parts of the galaxy and don't directly overlap, so feel free to ignore strict chronology here. Probably the Voyager books should come in a clump,but if you want some variety, alternate with Over a Torrent Sea and Synthesis!)
VOY: Children of the Storm
Titan: Synthesis
VOY: The Eternal Tide (As mentioned above, reading in chronological order will mean this one contains a spoiler for Paths of Disharmony, but it won't detail the why or how, only the what. If that helps).
Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire (Covers a span of time from the end of Destiny through to, well, where you are by this point in the chronology...)
DTI: Watching the Clock (Covers a span of post-Destiny time; as it contains a potential spoiler regarding Romulan politics, it's best to have this after RBoE, I think).
Typhon Pact: Zero Sum Game
Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire
Typhon Pact: Paths of Disharmony
Titan: Fallen Gods
TNG: Indistinguishable From Magic
DTI: Forgotten History (It goes here, chronologically, but you can read it at any point after you've read the first DTI book, really. It's the "framing" story that takes place at this point, the meat of the novel is TOS. Since this is DTI, though, don't expect the "frame" and the "main" to stay neatly apart...).
Typhon Pact: Plagues of Night
Typhon Pact: Raise the Dawn
 
So is this spoiler a continuity error? Does someone have knowledge of events that they shouldn't , given the time setting?
 
So is this spoiler a continuity error? Does someone have knowledge of events that they shouldn't, given the time setting?

Oh, no, it's not an error. The character in question, in the situation they're in, is permitted to know these things....

Sorry, my post was unclear; re-reading it, I see that I didn't phrase it at all well. I'll edit it now.

Continuity in TET is excellent, don't worry.
 
I don't want to hijack the thread, but it seems redundant to create a whole new one when my query is so similar.

I've been out of the world of Trek lit (and off this site) for years, but have decided to dive back in. I'm starting off with Kirsten Beyer's Voyager series; I'm currently rereading "Full Circle" and will then head on through "Unworthy", "Children of the Storm", and "The Eternal Tide".

After this, I was planning to start reading through the Typhon Pact series in the order listed here. Bearing in mind that the last books I read were the Destiny trilogy and "A Singular Destiny", will these books make sense to me or is there further reading I should do first (like "Losing the Peace" or "Over a Torrent Sea"?)

Thanks!
 
After this, I was planning to start reading through the Typhon Pact series in the order listed here. Bearing in mind that the last books I read were the Destiny trilogy and "A Singular Destiny", will these books make sense to me or is there further reading I should do first (like "Losing the Peace" or "Over a Torrent Sea"?)

As is usually the case with Trek literature, the books are designed to stand largely on their own, with continuity being a bonus to regular readers rather than an obstruction to irregular ones. As long as you've read the books you mentioned, there should be no difficulty following the Typhon Pact narrative.
 
After this, I was planning to start reading through the Typhon Pact series in the order listed here. Bearing in mind that the last books I read were the Destiny trilogy and "A Singular Destiny", will these books make sense to me or is there further reading I should do first (like "Losing the Peace" or "Over a Torrent Sea"?)

As is usually the case with Trek literature, the books are designed to stand largely on their own, with continuity being a bonus to regular readers rather than an obstruction to irregular ones. As long as you've read the books you mentioned, there should be no difficulty following the Typhon Pact narrative.

Brilliant, thanks. I'm looking forward to getting up to speed!

Have the Typhon Pact books received generally favourable responses? I've skimmed through the blurbs and for the most part they sound potentially great.
 
will these books make sense to me...

Pocket Books would be incredibly unwise to make every ST novel dependent on every single reader reading every single new book in a mandatory reading order.

Unless they are clearly marked Part I/II/III stories, almost all ST novels are written to be enjoyed as single stories.
 
will these books make sense to me...

Pocket Books would be incredibly unwise to make every ST novel dependent on every single reader reading every single new book in a mandatory reading order.

Unless they are clearly marked Part I/II/III stories, almost all ST novels are written to be enjoyed as single stories.

True, but the books do inform each other to varying extents. I don't think "A Singular Destiny" could be fully appreciated without having read the Destiny trilogy, for example.
 
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