Anthology suggestions?

[bfollowell]

I'm looking for some anthology reading suggestions. After starting with the DS9 relaunch and reading all the way through A Singular Destiny, it seemed like a good time for a break. During my short Trek hiatus I read The Riyria Revelations, an excellent fantasy series that I highly recommend. I then returned to Trek and read the Myriad Universes series, finished off the Mirror Universe and am currently wrapping up Vanguard.

I'm right in line to start reading the three Kirsten Beyer Voyager novels but I see she has a fourth coming out in August so I'm looking to stall from my reading list a little longer and hold out for that fourth novel.

I think I'm going to read through a lot of the anthologies. I've picked up Constellations, The Sky's the Limit, The Lives of Dax, Prophecy and Change, Distant Shores, Seven Deadly Sins and The Amazing Stories. Other than the Strange New Worlds series, what other anthologies may I be missing?

Thanks guys.

- Byron

 

[Greg Cox]

I'm looking for some anthology reading suggestions. After starting with the DS9 relaunch and reading all the way through A Singular Destiny, it seemed like a good time for a break. During my short Trek hiatus I read The Riyria Revelations, an excellent fantasy series that I highly recommend. I then returned to Trek and read the Myriad Universes series, finished off the Mirror Universe and am currently wrapping up Vanguard.

I'm right in line to start reading the three Kirsten Beyer Voyager novels but I see she has a fourth coming out in August so I'm looking to stall from my reading list a little longer and hold out for that fourth novel.

I think I'm going to read through a lot of the anthologies. I've picked up Constellations, The Sky's the Limit, The Lives of Dax, Prophecy and Change, Distant Shores, Seven Deadly Sins and The Amazing Stories. Other than the Strange New Worlds series, what other anthologies may I be missing?

Thanks guys.

- Byron

Star Trek: Enterprise Logs.

 

[bfollowell]

Star Trek: Enterprise Logs.

Thanks Greg. I already have that one and have been holding off on it. I'll add that one to this list.

I need to add your Khan series to my upcoming reading list soon as well.

Any idea if S&S will ever release Assigment: Eternity as an ebook or why they haven't?

Thanks again for the suggestion.

- Byron

 

[Christopher]

Also Tales from the Captain's Table and Tales of the Dominion War (surprised you forgot that one, Greg, since you're in it).

And if you really want to be thorough, there are the Bantam Star Trek: The New Voyages anthologies (two of them), and the young-adult Star Trek II Short Stories and Star Trek III Short Stories by William Rotsler.

 

[captcalhoun]

there's also the New Frontier anthology "No Limits" which mostly features stories set before the NF series, so you don't really need a huge amount of knowledge to read and enjoy it.

 

[Greg Cox]

Any idea if S&S will ever release Assigment: Eternity as an ebook or why they haven't?

To be honest, I don't know what the story is there. I'll have to remember to talk to somebody at Pocket about that one of these days.

 

[Therin of Andor]

To be honest, I don't know what the story is there. I'll have to remember to talk to somebody at Pocket about that one of these days.

IIRC, Marco once said that there were a few ST novel manuscripts that had no viable electronic version on file (caught in a changeover?; Corrupted files?) at Pocket and would need to be retyped, reproofed and reset in order to release a eBook version. So they had to wait for additional funds to become available to republish them.

 

[Greg Cox]

To be honest, I don't know what the story is there. I'll have to remember to talk to somebody at Pocket about that one of these days.

IIRC, Marco once said that there were a few ST novel manuscripts that had no viable electronic version on file (caught in a changeover?; Corrupted files?) at Pocket and would need to be retyped, reproofed and reset in order to release a eBook version. So they had to wait for additional funds to become available to republish them.

Just a theory: I've occasionally wondered if the fact that all my Trek books were written in WordPerfect was an issue.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Just a theory: I've occasionally wondered if the fact that all my Trek books were written in WordPerfect was an issue.

When I switched from an Amiga to a PowerMac, several computers ago, a friend converted some precious old WordPerfect files for me. The conversion process stripped out every piece of formatting, including spaces between words, IIRC - meaning it might be quicker to just retype from print-outs than to try reformatting from the mess on the diskette. Scanning the print-outs won't work either; the recycled computer paper has too many flecks in it.

 

[bfollowell]

Just a theory: I've occasionally wondered if the fact that all my Trek books were written in WordPerfect was an issue.

When I switched from an Amiga to a PowerMac, several computers ago, a friend converted some precious old WordPerfect files for me. The conversion process stripped out every piece of formatting, including spaces between words, IIRC - meaning it might be quicker to just retype from print-outs than to try reformatting from the mess on the diskette. Scanning the print-outs won't work either; the recycled computer paper has too many flecks in it.

Microsoft Word will import WordPerfect files. They may not be perfect but it's hard to believe they would strip out every single bit of formatting. Of course, I guess it depends on how old a version they were written in.

- Byron

 

[Greg Cox]

If we're talking Assignment: Eternity, this would have been an old version of WordPerfect, back when it was very different from Word. I think I wrote that one on my old Compaq computer . . . which is now gathering dust in my attic!

 

[Therin of Andor]

Microsoft Word will import WordPerfect files. They may not be perfect but it's hard to believe they would strip out every single bit of formatting. Of course, I guess it depends on how old a version they were written in.

Things were surprising incompatible and archaic in 1995.

 

[Greg Cox]

Ohmigod, was that really seventeen years ago?

 

[toughlittleship]

I wish Pocket Books would release an eBook of the DS9 Companion; some of the prices being charged for used copies are crazy.

 

[Smitty]

I wish Pocket Books would release an eBook of the DS9 Companion; some of the prices being charged for used copies are crazy.

Yes it is crazy, I stumbled upon mine last year at a local used book store.

 

[JD]

I wish Pocket Books would release an eBook of the DS9 Companion; some of the prices being charged for used copies are crazy.

Me too. I hear people talk about it all the time, and would love to read it.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Me too. I hear people talk about it all the time, and would love to read it.

Ironically, it was "in print" for quite a long time. Stuck in warehouses because bricks 'n' mortar book shops didn't want to stock lots of copies sitting on their shelves. I remember when the VOY version came out, and people were howling how bad it was in comparison: Amazon still had copies of first printings of the "DS9 Companion".