The only novel I can think of being yanked was "Killing Time". But that was because the wrong manuscript was published.
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The only novel I can think of being yanked was "Killing Time". But that was because the wrong manuscript was published.
And of course the corrected edition was then released as the second printing.
It's not technically a Novelverse book, but TrekCore's recap of the Discovery panel from Fan Expo Canda has revealed that The Final Reflection was a big influence on how the show is approaching the Klingons. There is even some Klingon text on the Sarcaphagus ship that was taken from The Final Reflection. I'm not sure if it'll appear on the show, but one of the quotes also refers to a game from the book called Klin zha.
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And DC Comics still puts out new collections of old stories, even though their continuity keeps getting rebooted.
I came across a fairly recent Batman reprint collection that included the last storyline before Batman: Year One rebooted the continuity and then the first set of issues right after BY1, without any preface or afterword to explain how they related to each other and why there were continuity differences between them. I don't understand why they did that.
Well, Year One wasn't intended to be a hard reboot like Man of Steel was for Superman. Year One and Year Two were retcons intended to change certain elements of certain characters' backstories, but not wipe out all the previous Batman continuity. In fact, Batman #401 (three issues before Year One and the issue before the Second Chances collection begins) is expressly in post-Crisis continuity, as it is a sequel of sorts to Man of Steel #3 and ties in with the Legends crossover. They muddled things a bit with how they handled Jason Todd's revamped origin and related timeline, but it was still better than what happened with Hawkman....
^Even so, it was odd to compile them like that without any kind of explanatory foreword or afterword to put the collection in context.
So will the novels ever get past 2387?
Has that been announced just recently?
Yes, Defcon reported on it.
It discussed Discovery novels but not post 2387 stuff. Is 2387 open now?
That article talks about that. What is there is really all we know at this point.
In the Literary Treks episode about the Klingon Travel Guide, Dayton mentions he only found out about it when it was announced at the con, and he'd actually been drafting a proposal for how to potentially address the the 2387 problem within the letter of the existing license, which he now doesn't have to finish because they'll presumably be going at it straight-on. Eventually.
So when will the first novel have a timeframe in the 2390s?
Pocket hasn't announced anything beyond January, 2018 (other than plans for a second Discovery novel) so we don't know when they'll advance the timeline.
To alleviate any potential confusion, there is at present no formal plan for advancing the storyline into/past 2387. The announcement at Vegas *did* generate a pretty fun conversation between David, Kevin, myself, and our editor about the possibilities of incorporating elements of the Kelvin timeline into the grander scheme of things. How or if any of that moves forward - and in what form - remains to be seen.
Relax. Breathe regular.
Relax. Breathe regular.
Are you allowed to do so now?To alleviate any potential confusion, there is at present no formal plan for advancing the storyline into/past 2387. The announcement at Vegas *did* generate a pretty fun conversation between David, Kevin, myself, and our editor about the possibilities of incorporating elements of the Kelvin timeline into the grander scheme of things. How or if any of that moves forward - and in what form - remains to be seen.
Relax. Breathe regular.