I've always been partial to Mack, DeCandido, and Martin and Mangels (in that order). *shrug* Mack secured his place at the top with Warpath and Destiny (of course).
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Actually, the best Mack lines are from one of the Corps of Engineers stories, but I don't remember which one OTTOMH.
See, I don't read the eBooks so I'm not entirely familiar with the SCE storyline, although I am relatively familiar with the characters from Memory-Beta. THough looking through this forum I did find that list of SCE books so I may endeavour to get the print versions and read them now that i know which ones they are for sure.
Well, I do have like 150 or so books so Isuppose I should post LOL. I love allwriters and respect them but in Trek Lit, I have read a few books by someauthors that just blew others out of the waters. Michael J. Friedman, after reading "Death In Winter" (my first book of his I read) blew me away. Others are Keith R.A. DeCandido, J.M Dillard (I love her) and of course Martin and Mangels. Also, Laurell K. Hamilton wrote one TNG book, "Nightshade" that is one of the best trek lit that I have ever read.
Absolute favourite is Diane Duane. Spocks World, Doctors Orders, Dark Mirror...great stuff.
Peter David is also great, John M Ford wrote the best trek book ever...also like AC Crispins books. Kevin Ryan did a fantastic six book series on the lead up to the TOS organia situation, with some great lower deck characters. Judith and Garfield Reeves Stevens have also done a lot of stuff I enjoy - particularly the superb Federation.
Peter David is also great, John M Ford wrote the best trek book ever...also like AC Crispins books. Kevin Ryan did a fantastic six book series on the lead up to the TOS organia situation, with some great lower deck characters. Judith and Garfield Reeves Stevens have also done a lot of stuff I enjoy - particularly the superb Federation.
Hahah, don't worry you aren't alone. I dislike that book as well but its the only CLB thing that I have read so I won't be too harsh.
Xortex, look at the date stamp on William Leisner's post:
"January 6, 2010."
As in, almost twenty-one months ago. As in, over a year and a half ago.
It's been explained to you multiple times that Jaime Costas has left Pocket Books and is no longer the Star Trek editor.
Which reminds me, which sells better, Star Wars or Star Trek as someone mentioned the SW's shelf is much bigger than the Star Trek novels which are now underneath it now. I never thought that would happen. It's like the NY Mets becoming more popular than the Yankees.
^Star Wars. Pretty much every SW novel is an immediate NY Times Best Seller, and other than Serpents Among the Ruins, I don't think Trek has had one since the mid '90s. Which really isn't that surprising since Trek is long past the height of it's popularity and Star Wars is still going strong. But then again I don't think Trek has ever been as popular as SW is.
There was a George Lucas interview in "Starlog" once, where he discussed the big mistake he made in letting "Star Trek" almost monopolize the licensed tie-in book market for so long. After only one Luke novel, a Han trilogy and a Lando trilogy, "Star Wars" novels vanished for about ten years. (SW action figures were on hiatus for a long time, too.) Meanwhile, Pocket's ST titles were frequently on bestseller lists and graduated to hardcover with "Spock's World". When SW novels made a comeback, they poached numerous bestseller ST authors and deliberately skewed younger.
This is not new news.
Doesn't really matter as 2009 saw a Star Trek novel on the NY Times Bestseller list if I'm not totally mistaken : Alan Dean Foster's movie novelisation.
Yep. Pre-orders exceeded the projected print run and some stores had to be satisfied with a second printing.
And yes, ADF's novelization hit the bestseller lists.
They all have their own criteria for collecting data. Usually they have several key "feeder locations". Online ordering would make the collection of info a little easier these days.
We had a local paper doing a "what's hot..." bestseller column once, and they used to ring a local comic shop for his ten currently hottest comics. One time there was a ST comic on the list (the DC ST Annual #3 by Peter David featuring Scotty's previously unknown wife) and I asked the shop owner how it got there. Was that comic really selling so noticeably different to other ST comics? Nah. He ordered too many - and thought the listing might help shift them.
Another big difference is how the various lists divide things up. USA TODAY tend to lump everything (fiction, non-fiction, hardcovers, paperbacks, adult fiction, young-adult, etc.) together in one big list, while the NYT has separate lists for different categories. Likewise, I believe Entertainment Weekly has one list for non-fiction and another for fiction. Children's books or graphic novels tend to have their own lists as well.
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