Do you thinnk ST11 will kill off the rest?
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You're wrong.
If anything, the fact that the movies are ongoing will restrict any potential novels more, meaning Pocket is more likely to keep them fairly minor and continue to accent all the other ongoing series. Enterprise had distinctly the smallest novel presence of the 5 shows while it was on the air.
If anything, the fact that the movies are ongoing will restrict any potential novels more, meaning Pocket is more likely to keep them fairly minor and continue to accent all the other ongoing series. Enterprise had distinctly the smallest novel presence of the 5 shows while it was on the air.
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That's not going to be a problem. Plus, each series is only getting about 1 book a year these days anyway...
Did the huge popularity of TNG kill off TOS books? Did TOS movies kill off TOS 5YM stories?
That's IMO not quite a valid comparison, because right then there was no diversity in Trek-books. You basically had 2-3 (TOS 5YM, TOS MOV, TNG) series to write for while now there are a lot more - and it's more possible for one to be left aside. (But I agree, it will surely not be one of the TV-series, if any.)
Depending on current contracts, Simon & Schuster hold ENT and VOY licenses so they'll hardly let them lie fallow to publish ST XI novels instead.
IDW don't publish ENT, DS9 or VOY comics because they don't hold those licenses.
I'm not scared. I'm not even mildly concerned. If the Star Trek movie doesn't do as well at the box office as it's expected to do, that could be the end of the Abramsverse. If it does phenomenally well, then, as Thrawn suggests, the producers may want to limit what the books do with that continuity.
Granted, the massive success of the new Doctor Who series had some unexpected negative effects on the Doctor Who book line. The ongoing monthly series of novels based on the 1963-1989 series and the 1996 TV movie meant for a more or less adult readership came to an end, and YA books based on the new series are all that's being published... but the cancelled novel lines were selling to a small cult audience. The new books sell five or ten times as many copies. It's frustrating for those of us who miss the old books, but if it takes the same amount of work to create a book that will sell 5,000 copies as it does to create one that will sell 50,000, it's hard to justify doing the former.
But Star Trek isn't Doctor Who. The Trek book line has been suffering a bit over the last few years but I'd be very surprised if it has an audience as small as the Eighth Doctor Adventures had. I doubt Abramsverse novels would outsell other Trek novels by an order of magnitude, not least because, as people have pointed out here, the only difference between such hypothetical books and the average TOS novel is the actors portrayed on the covers. They wouldn't be something wildly new and different from what we already have.
Oh, but that diversity is exactly why there's no reason to expect anything to be "left aside." The line already accommodates so many series, what's one more? Sure, if there's demand for a lot of new Kirk-era fiction, whether in the movie continuity or otherwise, then the other series would be competing for a smaller number of slots and their installments might come out less frequently, but there's no reason to assume any of them would be cancelled altogether. For the past decade, there's been variation from year to year, with some series getting covered less in some years and more in others. But there's never been a case where a book series has been terminated altogether to make room for another. A couple of series have pretty much ended -- Challenger never really got off the ground, Stargazer was a limited series that completed its run and hasn't been followed up on to date -- but those have been due to various factors including authorial availability, editorial judgment, etc.
I think that even if the movie didn't do well, we'd still get plenty of books out of it. Look at how much fiction was generated out of Nemesis. The A Time To... series, the TNG Relaunch, Titan, Vulcan's Soul, the Shinzon story in Tales of the Dominion War, etc.
Well, there would be some continuity differences, but they'd probably be subtle unless a book were specifically targeted at exploring them.
So does that mean I can start a rumor saying there arent' going to be any more books coming out a year after the movie?
Would any of those "books under contract" be starring Klag or Nan Bacco or even both in some way?
Do you mean aside from A Singular Destiny, which just came out, which features both prominently?
Yes. That is what I meant when I asked if one of the "books under contract" featured Klag and Nan Bacco.
Ok, just checking
Yes. That is what I meant when I asked if one of the "books under contract" featured Klag and Nan Bacco.
Wouldn't want you to miss out on something you wanted already being published.
Ok, just checking
Yes. That is what I meant when I asked if one of the "books under contract" featured Klag and Nan Bacco.
ASD doesn't come out here until Tuesday and I just finished A Burning House (I timed it perfectly
). I'll be in line for opening
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