Books with Nonfederation heroes..
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Slightly off topic, but if we're discussing books where the Federation is not the focus, I remember finishing Terok Nor: Night of the Wolves and thinking that this was the first Trek book I could remember not to feature the Federation. No Federation characters, no scenes set in the Federation. Even the other two Terok Nor books had brief POV periods with UFP citizens (mostly Starfleet officers). The only Federation presence in Night of the Wolves was a handful of mentions, acknowledging that the UFP was part of the Cardassian/Bajoran worldview, but not subject to much attention.
More on topic, I too love KRAD's Klingon novels for their unconventional portrayal of the Trek universe, and books like The Never-Ending Sacrifice and the Terok Nor trilogy, doing for the Cardassians and Bajorans what KRAD did with the Klingons, were also a joy. And, Vulcan's Heart and the Vulcan's Soul trilogy do a good job with the Vulcanoid races as our major POV, including Romulans and pre-Federation Vulcans.
Have you read the Deep Space Nine Relaunch, Yevetha? Because later stories in particular feature a lot of non-Federation POV characters and protagonists, from Ferengi to members of the Dominion.
As for Hirogen, I think you already know that KRAD's Demons of Air and Darkness has a good portrayal of a Hirogen character. And Hirogen feature in a memorable action sequence in the second Star Trek: Destiny novel, Mere Mortals.
More on topic, I too love KRAD's Klingon novels for their unconventional portrayal of the Trek universe, and books like The Never-Ending Sacrifice and the Terok Nor trilogy, doing for the Cardassians and Bajorans what KRAD did with the Klingons, were also a joy. And, Vulcan's Heart and the Vulcan's Soul trilogy do a good job with the Vulcanoid races as our major POV, including Romulans and pre-Federation Vulcans.
Have you read the Deep Space Nine Relaunch, Yevetha? Because later stories in particular feature a lot of non-Federation POV characters and protagonists, from Ferengi to members of the Dominion.
As for Hirogen, I think you already know that KRAD's Demons of Air and Darkness has a good portrayal of a Hirogen character. And Hirogen feature in a memorable action sequence in the second Star Trek: Destiny novel, Mere Mortals.
you can also give the Seven Deadly Sins anthology a look, at least 3 of the stories are alien centric - Romulans, Cardassians and Klingons. iirc, the Pakled one is also told from their POV... oh, and i think the Ferengi one was too.
^Even the Borg story in Seven Deadly Sins featured human privateers who worked outside the Federation.
The Ferengi one certainly is - from the POV of Brunt...
If the Typhon Pact books are successful, an anthology featuring a story from each member world might be an interesting possibility.
Oh, and Oily Orion Orgy.
Oh, and Oily Orion Orgy.
I don't think the Klingon, Cardassian, or Ferengi stories feature any Federation characters at all, or at least don't have any scenes from their perspective. I think the Romulan story does have some Starfleet characters, but I can't remember for sure, and the Borg story is told entirely from the POV of a group of non-Starfleet human characters. I haven't read the MU story or the Pakled story yet, but I'm pretty sure the MU only features MU characters, and the Pakled story is set on one of the TNG Enterprises.
As for new stories featuring Non-Federation characters, I would love to see an IKS Gorkon/Klingon Empire type series focused on a Romulan War Bird.
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Is that from the same writer of Vulcan Love Slave?
Duane's Rihannsu novels also count, right?
Not really. Most of them are told primarily from the perspective of the Enterprise crew. Even The Romulan Way is told from the perspective of either Dr. McCoy or a Federation sociologist who's undercover as a Romulan and has somewhat "gone native." Although the flashback chapters there and in Spock's World are told from the perspective of the Romulans/Vulcans -- except the flashback chapters in TRW actually represent a history monograph written by the aforementioned sociologist, so in a sense they're still from a Federation perspective.
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