Announcing my new STAR TREK projects!

[Christopher]

Reposting from my blog:

The contracts are signed, so I can now announce the two, yes, two Star Trek tie-in projects I have in the works.

First up is Star Trek: Typhon Pact: The Courage of Conscience. This is an eBook-exclusive, novella-length epilogue of sorts to the recent Typhon Pact miniseries, focusing on the Next Generation cast. Among other things, it will feature the Kinshaya, the one member of the Typhon Pact that was not featured in any of the four TP novels (though they were featured in A Singular Destiny, the novel that depicted the birth of the Pact). This is already listed on Amazon.com under the title Typhon Pact: Civil Disobedience, which was its working title for about a day, but long enough to get into the system, I guess. Amazon lists an October 2011 publication date, and I can neither confirm nor deny that at this point.

I also have a Trek novel in the works for sometime in 2012 which I think is going to be pretty interesting. Its working title is Forgotten History, and it's an original-series novel about Kirk and the Enterprise crew, but it also deals with the origins of the Department of Temporal Investigations. It's likely to show up on Amazon.com as Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: Forgotten History, but I don't know yet whether it will be released under the DTI subtitle or just as a straight-up TOS book. It's still being outlined, so I can't offer any more details yet.

 

[ryan123450]

Wow, amazingly cool on both counts. Looking forward to reading both. Hopefully this will mark the return of a steady stream of Trek ebooks. Plus, I would be happy if Forgotten History ends up having the DTI subtitle.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Aya!

*Flares wings*

That's good news indeed. It's great to see any Trek works by you, and particularly pleasurable to see another Typhon Pact piece, even if it is only an "epilogue".

And another novel with DTI connections...that's intriguing.

 

[captcalhoun]

e-book exclusive?

BAH!

 

[Christopher]

It's great to see any Trek works by you

Thanks!

and particularly pleasurable to see another Typhon Pact piece, even if it is only an "epilogue".

Well, maybe "epilogue" is the wrong term. Bonus story?

 

[shanejayell]

e-book exclusive?

BAH!

Yeah, pretty much seconded.

Is this gonna see print eventually?

I AM looking forward to the DTI book, too.

 

[DimesDan]

Can't say I'm impressed with an e-book exclusive story but then again, I guess it could be testing the waters for future e-book only stories. Maybe even a return of SCE or what ever it was called.

As for the second, count me as not sure. I've never really been a fan of TOS stories and as DTI isn't even out yet and can't pass judgement on it even though it does strike me as something that could go badly wrong or brilliant in the right hands.

So yeah, meh is the response from me.

But well done for getting a Trek sale that may very well see the light of day.

 

[timothy]

this is fantastic news not yet caught up to typhon pact series yet half way threw destiny. Now I am looking forward to DTI even more. When do you think it will be
aviable the barns and noble nook? also loved great than the sum.

 

[Freman]

Not a big e-book fan myself, but sign me up, Christopher!

The DTI book is another must buy for me.

 

[bok2384]

Congratulations, Christopher, I eagerly anticipate both of those titles, but more so the Forgotten History novel. I'm not overly bothered about the Typhon Pact novel being eBook exclusive, as I'm intrigued to read about a "new race" rather than the regular ones which took center stage in the other books.

 

[Lonemagpie]

I also have a Trek novel in the works for sometime in 2012 which I think is going to be pretty interesting. Its working title is Forgotten History, and it's an original-series novel about Kirk and the Enterprise crew, but it also deals with the origins of the Department of Temporal Investigations. It's likely to show up on Amazon.com as Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: Forgotten History, but I don't know yet whether it will be released under the DTI subtitle or just as a straight-up TOS book. It's still being outlined, so I can't offer any more details yet.

More DTI? Cool.

 

[zarkon]

The dti/kirk book sounds interesting. I'd laugh if the DTI was set up because of one of kirk's many time transgressions. Looking forward to this.

Sadly I don't read ebooks, so I guess I'll have to hope it sees print in some form or another eventually.

 

[ClayinCA]

I wasn't a big fan of the Typhon Pact books, but I have yet to read anything from Christopher that I haven't thoroughly enjoyed--and as a relatively new Kindle owner, I look forward to another excuse to use mine.

Christopher, I don't know if you're allowed to say or not, but when is the TOS/DTI novel set in the Original Series timeframe? (I keep hoping for more post-TMP stuff from you, though as long as it's you writing those characters, I'm happy.)

So yeah, big thumbs up from me (which hopefully evens out the "meh" from Dimesdan).

 

[Christopher]

Christopher, I don't know if you're allowed to say or not, but when is the TOS/DTI novel set in the Original Series timeframe? (I keep hoping for more post-TMP stuff from you, though as long as it's you writing those characters, I'm happy.)

I'll just say that Watching the Clock contains a clue to that.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Sadly I don't read ebooks, so I guess I'll have to hope it sees print in some form or another eventually.

Well, everyone has to start somewhere. None of us used to read eBooks either.

When SCE was first announced, it was promoted as an eBook-only series. "Never to be in hardcopy". IIRC, the first SCE story was free and I couldn't have it, even if I wanted it! And I wanted it, but not enough to buy a PC.

I'd just driven myself crazy trying to get several Australian shops to order in the issues of "Amazing Stories" with the exclusive magazine-only ST stories - and they ended up getting me every second issue, which were all the "Babylon 5" stories. But now here was an eBook-only set of brand new ST stories and I couldn't read them because they were incompatible with my old PowerMac - and when I tried to download to my work PC, I was blocked by a firewall!

So I did without SCE but, as my hardcopy backlog was threatening to overwhelm me anyway, I barely noticed missing SCE until those hardcopy omnibuses started being scheduled.

Then came the realisation that I'd missed out on "The Magic of Tribbles: The Making of DS9: Trials and Tribble-ations", an eBook ST exclusive that would never see a hardcopy reprint. I had an iMac by then, and a better Internet connection, so downloading was easy. After that, I was able to pacify myself for the agonising wait for Amazon to send me the Arex story I wanted to read in "New Frontier: No Limits", I was able to read it that eBook on the day of its simultaneous release with the trade paperback.

So, burning desire to read a particular story may overwhelm you at some point, and you'll become an eBook reader. It's really not that different to reading posts on a BBS.

And big congrats to Christopher! I'm glad S&S are revisiting original ST eBooks. They seemed to turn away from them at a rather odd time.

 

[toughlittleship]

I hate hate to be picky, but although the Kinshaya didn't get much focus in the four novels, a Kinshaya Patriarch named Radrigi represented his people at a meeting of the Typhon Pact in Rough Beasts of Empire. These new projects sound interesting.

 

[JD]

Sweet! I've been hoping there would be more Trek ebook exclusives since I got my Nook. I really like the concept of the DTI, so as long as I like WtC as much as I expect to, I'll be getting Forgotten History as soon as it pops up.

 

[JonoKyle]

Reposting from my blog:

The contracts are signed, so I can now announce the two, yes, two Star Trek tie-in projects I have in the works.

First up is Star Trek: Typhon Pact: The Courage of Conscience. This is an eBook-exclusive, novella-length epilogue of sorts to the recent Typhon Pact miniseries, focusing on the Next Generation cast. Among other things, it will feature the Kinshaya, the one member of the Typhon Pact that was not featured in any of the four TP novels (though they were featured in A Singular Destiny, the novel that depicted the birth of the Pact). This is already listed on Amazon.com under the title Typhon Pact: Civil Disobedience, which was its working title for about a day, but long enough to get into the system, I guess. Amazon lists an October 2011 publication date, and I can neither confirm nor deny that at this point.

I also have a Trek novel in the works for sometime in 2012 which I think is going to be pretty interesting. Its working title is Forgotten History, and it's an original-series novel about Kirk and the Enterprise crew, but it also deals with the origins of the Department of Temporal Investigations. It's likely to show up on Amazon.com as Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: Forgotten History, but I don't know yet whether it will be released under the DTI subtitle or just as a straight-up TOS book. It's still being outlined, so I can't offer any more details yet.

e-book exclusive?

BAH!

Yeah, pretty much seconded.

Is this gonna see print eventually?

I AM looking forward to the DTI book, too.

The Typhon Pact novel sounds good - however since it is e-book exclusive I will most likely not get it unless they re-released in novel form later on. I have tried the reading the e-book forms before (with a couple of the S.C.E. e-books) and found them irritating to read - so have waited for the rest to be released in book form before getting them (even re-bought the two I had in e-book form). However that's just me.

I have never been a big TOS fan (having got into Trek during the DS9 period) - however considering I have really enjoyed the other Star Trek books you have written that I have read, I will definitely be looking at getting the DTI/TOS book.

 

[Christopher]

I hate hate to be picky, but although the Kinshaya didn't get much focus in the four novels, a Kinshaya Patriarch named Radrigi represented his people at a meeting of the Typhon Pact in Rough Beasts of Empire.

I'd call that "glimpsed," not "featured."

 

[William Leisner]

I'd laugh if the DTI was set up because of one of kirk's many time transgressions. Looking forward to this.

Well, in "Gods, Fate, and Fractals," I put the founding of the DTI in 2270, on the assumption that, taken collectively, all of Kirk's temporal shenanigans during the 5YM demanded a separate agency to deal with them.

Christopher's mileage may vary.