Favorite SNW Stories?
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I second the vote for "Isolation Ward 4." It's one of my favorite Trek stories, period.
And I had no idea you liked "The Aliens Are Coming!" Thanks.
The one that stays with me is "A Private Ancedote" in the first volume.
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In addition to the aforementioned "A Private Anecdote" and "Isolation Ward 4," off the top of my head:
"Assignment: One" and "The Rules of War" by Kevin Lauderdale
"Whatever You Do, Don't Read This Story" and "Our Million-Year Mission" by Bob Jeshonek
"Personal Log" by Kevin Killiany
"Gods, Fate, and Fractals" by Bill Leisner
"Assignment: One" and "The Rules of War" by Kevin Lauderdale
"Whatever You Do, Don't Read This Story" and "Our Million-Year Mission" by Bob Jeshonek
"Personal Log" by Kevin Killiany
"Gods, Fate, and Fractals" by Bill Leisner
Back in '02 when Pocket released that story as an eBook to tie into The Eugenics Wars, John O. hired me to write copy for it, so I read it then, and adored it. (That copy is enshrined on the Memory Beta entry for the story.)And I had no idea you liked "The Aliens Are Coming!" Thanks.
I like all of the SNW stories -- even mine -- but the one that sticks with me is "A Ribbon for Rosie" by Ilsa J. Bick in SNW2.
Isolation Ward 4. Top shelf.
On the Shoulders of Giants.
Ted's Scotty/Bones story with the crazy title.
On the Shoulders of Giants.
Ted's Scotty/Bones story with the crazy title.
"You May Kiss The Bride" by Amy Sisson (SNW 8) and "The Last Tree on Ferenginar" by Mike McDevitt (SNW 9) stand out for me because they're comedies. Most SNW stuff tended to the heavy.
Another vote for "Our Million-Year Mission" by Bob Jeschonek (SNW 6) . Bob, by the way, has a small volume of his own stuff just out from PS Publishing--publishers of Postscripts magazine--in England. Very classy.
Another vote for "Our Million-Year Mission" by Bob Jeschonek (SNW 6) . Bob, by the way, has a small volume of his own stuff just out from PS Publishing--publishers of Postscripts magazine--in England. Very classy.
I've read only 4 SNW stories from two volumes (6 & 7). Of those, the two that stick out as fantastic are:
"The Beginning" by Annie Reed
"Fabrications" by Brett Hudgins
**Why? You ask, have I only read like 4 of the about 40 stories in these volumes? I have no good reason, other than I read "The Beginning" because I had heard it existed and was the sole reason I even purchased SNW6. Read "Fabrications" because it was really short and grabbed me from the first paragraph. The other two I read: One was about Voyager and had Q and Kirk and generally too much going on, I didn't much care for. The other was "Forgotten Light" (another Borg origin story), which was OK but paled in comparison to "The Beginning," but like "The Beginning" was the only reason I bought SNW7 at all.
"The Beginning" by Annie Reed
"Fabrications" by Brett Hudgins
**Why? You ask, have I only read like 4 of the about 40 stories in these volumes? I have no good reason, other than I read "The Beginning" because I had heard it existed and was the sole reason I even purchased SNW6. Read "Fabrications" because it was really short and grabbed me from the first paragraph. The other two I read: One was about Voyager and had Q and Kirk and generally too much going on, I didn't much care for. The other was "Forgotten Light" (another Borg origin story), which was OK but paled in comparison to "The Beginning," but like "The Beginning" was the only reason I bought SNW7 at all.
^ So, that's a .500 batting average. Not too shabby. 
So I have you to thank for that, too.
If I had it to do over again, I'd do a few things differently, but I'm still rather fond of that story.
(Now, if I could just get off my butt and do something with the idea I have for a novel-length companion piece to the story.....
)
*Gets out stun stick and twirls it around*(Now, if I could just get off my butt and do something with the idea I have for a novel-length companion piece to the story.....
Great suggestions -- I especially enjoyed "Gumbo" (I'd never read it before, and now it's the perfect DS9 coda to me). I'd read "Our Million-Year Mission" several years ago and loved it; I'd love to see more of these wildly speculative "Speculations" stories, which seemed to really break out of the standard Trek continuities.
"The Aliens Are Coming!" was fun, Dayton -- I'd never thought about the fact that the TOS visits to the 1960s were in reverse order before. I've never read Cox's Eugenics Wars -- does this fit into those books' continuity at all?
"The Aliens Are Coming!" was fun, Dayton -- I'd never thought about the fact that the TOS visits to the 1960s were in reverse order before. I've never read Cox's Eugenics Wars -- does this fit into those books' continuity at all?
^ It's not inconsistent with them, but I wrote the story before those books were published. In fact, Greg alludes to the story's events in the second EW book (he did so at John Ordover's suggestion, and then John decided to publish the story in standalone form as an "Untold story from the Eugenics Wars.").
Ah, I see the check I wrote you cleared.
Thanks for the recommendation. The story in question is in SNW VI, "Bum Radish: Five Spins on a Turquoise Reindeer".And if you like slightly off-beat and humorous Trek, check out my other two SNW stories, "A Little More Action" in SNW IV (a spoof of the detective genre, before everyone else started doing it
), and "On the Rocks" in SNW V (Janeway and Paris' lizard kids, back on the planet).--Ted
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