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Extract from Day of Vipers out now!

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Star Trek Magazine 10, with an excerpt from James Swallow's Day of Vipers, should hit newsstands in the US and Canada any day now. It's part of the special DS9 at 15 issue which also includes featurettes by returning Trek authors Robert Jeschonek, KRAD, David McIntee, Terri Osborne, and David R. George III, with debut contributions from Jill Sherwin and Robert Greenberger. (7 out of the 8 slots... hmmm, there seems to be a connection here!) IDW's Andrew Steven Harris examines the DS9 comics and there's new interviews with Avery Brooks and Cirroc Lofton...
...Plus interviews *from the set of the new movie* with Karl Urban and Anton Yelchin.
And just looking ahead, Issue 11 includes a fascinating extract from Bill Leisner's A Less Perfect Union...

Paul
 
Interesting... Andrew Steven Harris is looking at old DS9 comics or some sort of announcement of new one?

And does it come out in the US & Canada before the UK now?

Looking forward to reading that excerpt. Initially I wasn't all that excited by a DS9 prequel, but the idea has grown on me, largely down to S.D. Perry's co-authoring two of them. Here's hoping Mr Swallow's entry is up to expectations. :)
 
8of5 said:
Interesting... Andrew Steven Harris is looking at old DS9 comics or some sort of announcement of new one?
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Looking at old ones - the good, the bad and the... less good


And does it come out in the US & Canada before the UK now?
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Yes, it prints in the US nowadays.

Looking forward to reading that excerpt. Initially I wasn't all that excited by a DS9 prequel, but the idea has grown on me, largely down to S.D. Perry's co-authoring two of them. Here's hoping Mr Swallow's entry is up to expectations. :)
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Based on the excerpt I'd say it'll exceed them!

Paul
 
PaulSimpson said:
Issue 11 includes a fascinating extract from Bill Leisner's A Less Perfect Union...

Paul
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Hmm, this doesn't sound at all familiar to me. What is it about?
 
^ It's one of the Myriad Universes short novels. It'll appear in July's Infinity's Prism.
 
^ It's the first of the Terok Nor books, detailing the Cardassian assimilation of Bajor.
 
KRAD said:
^ It's the first of the Terok Nor books, detailing the Cardassian assimilation of Bajor.
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Don't you mean "occupation" of Bajor? Or does the Cardassian Union get assimilated by the Borg?
 
Xeris said:
KRAD said:
^ It's the first of the Terok Nor books, detailing the Cardassian assimilation of Bajor.
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Don't you mean "occupation" of Bajor? Or does the Cardassian Union get assimilated by the Borg?
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The Borg didn't invent the word "assimilate." And thanks to contradictory date references over the years, it's been established that the first Bajor-Cardassia contact was 60 years before DS9 but the Occupation began 50 years before DS9. So there would have to have been a period of contact and interaction before the actual military occupation began. I assume that Keith is referring to a process of cultural assimilation, like the way the British or Americans of the 19th/20th centuries tried to assimilate other societies into their own culture and religion and so forth.
 
Christopher said:
Xeris said:
KRAD said:
^ It's the first of the Terok Nor books, detailing the Cardassian assimilation of Bajor.
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Don't you mean "occupation" of Bajor? Or does the Cardassian Union get assimilated by the Borg?
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The Borg didn't invent the word "assimilate." And thanks to contradictory date references over the years, it's been established that the first Bajor-Cardassia contact was 60 years before DS9 but the Occupation began 50 years before DS9. So there would have to have been a period of contact and interaction before the actual military occupation began. I assume that Keith is referring to a process of cultural assimilation, like the way the British or Americans of the 19th/20th centuries tried to assimilate other societies into their own culture and religion and so forth.
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I can accept that, but it was just an interesting choice of words, that's all.
 
I really hope we'll see more chapter excerpts for the Terok Nor Trilogy. And the Myriad Universe Trilogy and Kobayashi Maru too.
 
Myriad Universes isn't a trilogy, it's six short novels in two trade paperbacks, much like last year's Mirror Universe.
 
^^Myriad Universes is actually a duology, two volumes containing six short novels. Although I'm hoping it does well enough that we get more volumes in the future.
 
Oh thanks for that information about the books KRAD and Christopher I definitely appreciate the info it's going to be six stories in 2 books. I really enjoyed the Mirrior Universe books last year. And hope that we'll have more books like this come out.I hope they'll be a sucess.I like these story collections from the diferent series. :) :bolian:
 
Christopher said:
^^Myriad Universes is actually a duology, two volumes containing six short novels. Although I'm hoping it does well enough that we get more volumes in the future.
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This is a bit off topic for this thread but I am worried about the name of this duology. I imagine it was chosen to harken back to the Mirror Universe books (which apparently sold like gangbusters considering the product we are seeing coming out this year) but speaking as someone who has been looking forward to these books since Marco first hinted at them years ago, the name lacks something.
 
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