I’m able to announce my new Star Trek project now, and it’s my most offbeat one yet. The working title is Star Trek: DTI, with a more specific title to be settled on later.
And yes, that's DTI as in the Department of Temporal Investigations. As in Lucsly and Dulmur from "Trials and Tribble-ations." They and their agency are getting a whole book, and I'm writing it. Think Articles of the Federation, but if that was The West Wing in the 24th century, DTI might be more like an FBI procedural show.
In any case, don’t expect the conventional, done-to-death kind of time travel story where the heroes go back into the past and try to prevent or reverse a change in history. STDTI will have its own distinctive approach to time travel, its mechanics, and its consequences, and will explore numerous facets of the Department’s responsibilities through the cases worked by its various members.
It’s an exciting challenge to do this book. With Lucsly and Dulmur being the only established DTI members, and with them being virtual blank slates, this is closer to a fully original creation than any commissioned novel I’ve ever done (though you can expect to see a few more familiar faces showing up here and there). And it’s my chance to take the byzantine logic of Trek-universe time travel and offer a unifying theory with some degree of scientific credibility to it — while still having fun with it. On the other hand, with so few established characters or situations to draw on and a lot of ideas to cover, I’ve got my work cut out for me.
Meanwhile, I have two original SF stories to announce:
"The Weight of Silence" will be appearing in the online Alternative Coordinates magazine in their next issue, debuting on May 1, 2010. It's a tale in the vein of the "problem stories" of vintage SF, in which the characters are faced with a scientific crisis and have to reason out a solution, but with a more character-driven approach. It's also my first ever story to be written in the first person. The second, coincidentally, is the previously announced "No Dominion," which will be appearing about six weeks later in the online DayBreak Magazine.
And the characters from my recent novelette "The Hub of the Matter" will be returning to the pages of Analog in a sequel called "Home is Where the Hub Is." The publication date hasn’t been settled on yet, but I’d expect it to be sometime in late 2010.
While we're at it, although the March 2010 Analog featuring "The Hub of the Matter" is no longer on bookshelves, it can still be purchased as an eBook from the following retailers:
eReader.com
Fictionwise.com
Sony Reader Store
I'm delighted by how busy my website's New/Upcoming Titles section is getting all of a sudden. And by how much of it is original fiction.
And yes, that's DTI as in the Department of Temporal Investigations. As in Lucsly and Dulmur from "Trials and Tribble-ations." They and their agency are getting a whole book, and I'm writing it. Think Articles of the Federation, but if that was The West Wing in the 24th century, DTI might be more like an FBI procedural show.
In any case, don’t expect the conventional, done-to-death kind of time travel story where the heroes go back into the past and try to prevent or reverse a change in history. STDTI will have its own distinctive approach to time travel, its mechanics, and its consequences, and will explore numerous facets of the Department’s responsibilities through the cases worked by its various members.
It’s an exciting challenge to do this book. With Lucsly and Dulmur being the only established DTI members, and with them being virtual blank slates, this is closer to a fully original creation than any commissioned novel I’ve ever done (though you can expect to see a few more familiar faces showing up here and there). And it’s my chance to take the byzantine logic of Trek-universe time travel and offer a unifying theory with some degree of scientific credibility to it — while still having fun with it. On the other hand, with so few established characters or situations to draw on and a lot of ideas to cover, I’ve got my work cut out for me.
Meanwhile, I have two original SF stories to announce:
"The Weight of Silence" will be appearing in the online Alternative Coordinates magazine in their next issue, debuting on May 1, 2010. It's a tale in the vein of the "problem stories" of vintage SF, in which the characters are faced with a scientific crisis and have to reason out a solution, but with a more character-driven approach. It's also my first ever story to be written in the first person. The second, coincidentally, is the previously announced "No Dominion," which will be appearing about six weeks later in the online DayBreak Magazine.
And the characters from my recent novelette "The Hub of the Matter" will be returning to the pages of Analog in a sequel called "Home is Where the Hub Is." The publication date hasn’t been settled on yet, but I’d expect it to be sometime in late 2010.
While we're at it, although the March 2010 Analog featuring "The Hub of the Matter" is no longer on bookshelves, it can still be purchased as an eBook from the following retailers:
eReader.com
Fictionwise.com
Sony Reader Store
I'm delighted by how busy my website's New/Upcoming Titles section is getting all of a sudden. And by how much of it is original fiction.
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