Do you only buy the books of the series you enjoyed?

[Therin of Andor]

Well, no, but I'm willing to consider the possibility that I'm an extreme case. I buy 'em all, pretty much. All Star Trek books, fiction and nonfiction, authorized and unauthorized, as long as they aren't just reprints or collections of previously published material with nothing new added.

Me too. Very happy to be a completist. Fell behind on my reading, with DS9 and VOY piling up during the two-books per month years.

Caught up again, then changed jobs (no commute) and got stranded in the Gamma Quadrant with "Mission: Gamma". Took them three months, took me twelve. Unsuccessfully trying to play catch up ever since.

Re: unauthorized stuff. I try to be selective, especially the Hal Schuster & James Van Hise/Couch Potato stuff, and a few recent things that seemed slapped together or too thesis-like.

 

[Baerbel Haddrell]

I buy most books. The more I like a series ("canon" or otherwise), the more it is likely that I buy every one of them.

So far I have also bought all Voyager books although I found watching the series very frustrating. But because I am curious and because most books did a much better job handling these characters than what I could see on TV, I will continue buying them. At least for now.

TOS - it very much depends. I don`t buy all books but if it is a Spock-heavy book, it is likely that I buy it. I decide on a case by case basis. The problem is, even when I buy them, they rarely reach the top of my huge to-read pile.

What I definitely don`t buy is the Shatnerverse.

 

[Trent Roman]

Yes and no. I've enjoyed (to varying degrees) most of the modern Trek shows, but I could never get into TOS so I don't buy books from that series, or of that setting. For instance, I read Harbinger which otherwise gets rave reviews around here, and I couldn't get comfortable with the conspiracy or the characters enough to care to follow on with the rest of 'em. That said, I did buy all of the Lost Era books and have been thinking of picking up Forged in Fire on the basis of The Sundered (except that I'm already behind on my reading as it is).

That said, my support is not automatic. I foreswore from buying anymore books in the VOY-R as long as Christie Golden was writing them after the disaster of Spirit Walk; conveniently enough, those were her last entries, and I'll be giving Full Circle a shot next year (although if it doesn't improve on what's come before, hard as that is to conceive, I won't bother with the follow-up). Likewise, after the Byzantine bungling of The Good That Men Do, if Kobayashi Maru fails to impress, I won't bother picking up the Romulan War thing. I used to follow Shatner's book, but his prequel didn't interest me neither in terms of setting, and the poor reviews sealed it.

Otherwise, though... things like DS9-R, S.C.E., Gorkon/Klingon Empire, New Frontier, the offbeat but fascinating exercises of Mirror Universe, Myriad Universes: you write 'em, I'll buy 'em. I'm keeping with the TNG-R despite the rocky start because I trust in Christopher and David Mack to deliver quality products (which I think makes a good argument for multi-author series as opposed to always having the same person/team, but that's another topic).

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Harvey]

Well, sort of. The only series I've been consistently buying up in the past three years has been the Deep Space Nine relaunch. I've bought up most of the anthologies that have been put out (the shorter format makes them easier for me to read with less time during the school year), regardless of series. Other than that, I haven't bought much. Perhaps a Lost Tales book that is particularly interesting, or a Next Generation book that ties into the relaunch somehow.

 

[JD]

Since I like all of the series, I tend to base my buying more on the author and the story. So given the quality of the book lately I've been getting most of the books. The only TOS book I've gotten so far is the 40th Anniversary rerelease of Strangers from the Sky, and I haven't gotten a chance to go beyond Diplomatic Impluasabilty for IKS Gorkon/Klingon Empire. I've actually had A Good Day to Die since before I read DI, but I've been so busy getting caught up on stuff like the TNGR and SCE that I haven't gotten a chance to read it yet.

 

[Ktrek]

Since I have been blessed with enough financial freedom to buy what I want I buy every Trek title as it's issued by Pocket. Do I like everything? That would be a flat no! If times were hard for me I suppose I would have to limit my spending on Trek and DS9 relaunch, Vanguard, Titan and maybe TNG would get the majority of my dollars. TNG might even have to bite the big one if things got too tough but the other series I would sell my back copies to keep up!

Kevin

 

[Divine]

does what it says on the tin.

Well do ya?

I Like all trek so I'm always open to try every trek book. I'm even currently reading some VOY-R Homecoming but I'm about ready to burn it.

I only buy books with space battles and crews that are white and male.

LoL, I feel bad for the little guy...well not really.

 

[Technobuilder]

I didn't really get into Trek Lit until College and the advent of the DS9-R.

Before that in Middle School and later High School, I'd only ever bought & read maybe 2 TNG paperbacks (Rouge Saucer & Dragon's Honor I believe) and whatever Bargain Bin Hardcovers they had at a local Bookseller. Only $2 a piece (if that) so I usually got a bunch in one go and made my way through them at a snail's pace. TOS was always my favorite Movie-Wise but the TV Series always seemed hokey and reminded me of "Batman" (Similar Color Palettes I guess), so the stigma extended to the books in order of preference (at least initially)

Eventually, I made it through all the Hardcovers and Federation stands out in my mind as one of the best I read at that time.

After reading the first books in the DS9-R, I started branching out to more and more books and currently I read just about every current series published save the Voyager books. (Just can't get interested in them and I'm still halfway through Homecoming.)

I'd say that the majority reason I tend to read all the books that I do now is because of the tighter literary continuity between books and the attempt to expand the scope of Star Trek while still staying true to what works best, character driven stories which explore the human condition.

My Favorite Book Series are:
-DS9-R
-TNG-R
-GKN/Klingon Empire
-SCE/COE
-VGD
-TTN
-NF
-Lost Era

I've got a bunch of the Enterprise Books, but haven't really started them yet.

I've enjoyed the Mirror Universe Anthologies (I hope to see a resolution to Emperor Spock's Plan and if this affects DS9-R who's to say?)

I'm looking forward to Myriad Universes & The Destiny Trilogy.

 

[Cicero]

It seems that I only buy books edited by Marco. I've tried several volumes of each of the series, but the only ones I've enjoyed (except occasionally, in the case of TLE's Serpents Among the Ruins, TNG's A Time To Kill and A Time To Heal, and TOS's Provenance of Shadows) are the Deep Space Nine relaunch and the Vanguard series. It's odd that I've reliably enjoyed these book series, and those of two particular authors outside of those lines, but disliked esentially the rest of the recent line.

I didn't read String Theory (I didn't get around to them before they started to disappear), so I plan to read Kirsten Beyer's new Voyager novel despite disliking the rest of the series, since I've heard good things about her work. And David Mack's excellent work to this point is the only reason I'm going to buy at least the first book of Destiny, despite having disliked both the direction of and every entry in the TNG relaunch so far. And, despite the series so far, I've not given up on Titan; I like the characters too much (specifically the three senior humans and Doctor Ree; I'm so far indifferent at best to the rest of the crew).

Altogether, I enjoyed the first four Star Trek series, but I regularly read books from one (Deep Space Nine), and from the spinoff of another (TOS, i.e. Vanguard). I read books not so much from the television series I enjoyed as from the novel series I enjoy.