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Fearful Symmetry is here!!!!!

One of many things I'm looking forward to is seeing how soon after Warpath the novel will begin. Will it be a few hours/days/weeks/months later? Or a four year jump some people seem to want?:)
I think it will overlap with parts of the relaunch and then move further forward.
 
Is the Mirror Universe part of the relaunch?

Not entirely, but elements of it are involved in the current DS9 Relaunch storyline. Fearful Symmetry carries both the DS9 logo and the Mirror Universe logo (used for last year's duology and next year's anthology of MU tales).
 
One of many things I'm looking forward to is seeing how soon after Warpath the novel will begin. Will it be a few hours/days/weeks/months later? Or a four year jump some people seem to want?:)
I imagine it doesn't take place after at all. Rather I imagine it tells the history of both the MU and RU versions of Illiana Ghemor, leading up to the events we see in Warpath. In a Lost-early-season-2 stylie.
 
Yeah, but the description does say

But far more is unfolding in the Mirror Universe than Ghemor realizes, and the heroes of Deep Space Nine somehow must stop the false Kira without derailing the delicate flow of history that must unfold if both universes, and countless others, are to survive.
Sounds to me like it will be continuing the story after Warpath. I'm also pretty sure it's been described here and at other places as continuing the story on from the point where it ended in Warpath.
 
Perhaps one side tells the story of both Illianas at the same time leading up to Warpath and the other continues the story afterwards?
 
In our universe, a Cardassian sleeper agent--Iliana Ghemor--was once surgically altered to resemble and replace resistance fighter Kira Nerys, future Starfleet captain and hero of the planet Bajor's liberation. That plan never reached fruition, and the fate of the agent remained unknown...until now. Robbed of the past sixteen years, Iliana Ghemor is back with a vengeance. Over a decade and a half of imprisonment and abuse by her former masters has brought her to the brink of madness, sustained only by the twisted belief that she is, in fact, the real Kira Nerys. She has already made one near-successful attempt on the real Kira's life, but instead of assuming the identity of the woman she was intended to replace, Ghemor has set her sights on the most unexpected target of all: Kira's other double, the malicious Intendent, Bajor's iron-fisted ruler in the alternate reality commonly known as the "Mirror Universe." But far more is unfolding in the Mirror Universe than Ghemor realizes, and the heroes of Deep Space Nine somehow must stop the false Kira without derailing the delicate flow of history that must unfold if both universes, and countless others, are to survive. Parallel stories set in both universes reflect and build upon each other in this Two-in-One "Flip Book," the continuation of both the ongoing DS9 saga as well as the Mirror Universe line of books
I decided to go ahead and post this again, because I think it does a pretty good job of answering alot of these questions.
 
I have a worse dilemma to deal with: When Fearful Symmetry arrives, do I stop reading the Terok Nor trilogy (which I just started the second book of) and jump into it right away, or wait until I'm done with the trilogy?! Argh! Woe is me! :lol:
 
I have a worse dilemma to deal with: When Fearful Symmetry arrives, do I stop reading the Terok Nor trilogy (which I just started the second book of) and jump into it right away, or wait until I'm done with the trilogy?! Argh! Woe is me! :lol:
Don't kid yourself, you know you're gonna start FS as soon as you get it. :pI know I will, that's why I already gave up on my attempt to reread the DS9R from Mission Gamma on. I know there is no way in hell I'm gonna be able to wait the months it would take me to do that.
 
I have a worse dilemma to deal with: When Fearful Symmetry arrives, do I stop reading the Terok Nor trilogy (which I just started the second book of) and jump into it right away, or wait until I'm done with the trilogy?! Argh! Woe is me! :lol:
Don't kid yourself, you know you're gonna start FS as soon as you get it. :p
Yeah...it's true...

:lol:
 
Xeris, you got me all excited. I thought you'd found it in a store somewhere. I already read the excerpt... Anyway, I enjoyed it... I'm intrigued to see where the story of Illiana goes... Now, I'm not the most conversant person in backstory and place names and dates and such... I'm having a hard time figuring out which world this excerpt takes place in... It feels like it would be the Mirror Universe, but could it also be our universe before Illiana undergoes the Bajoran surgery?

It's not the mirror universe.

In the MU, Bajor was occupied by the Terran Empire, not by Cardassia. The excerpt clearly references a *Cardassian* occupation of Bajor, so that must mean it's in the RU.
 
I need to brush up on my MU history... I didn't realize the Terran Empire was the Bajoran occupiers... makes sense from what I *do* remember from the episodes now...
 
I decided to go ahead and post this again, because I think it does a pretty good job of answering alot of these questions.
In that case, YAY with knobs on.

Now the only question is whether or not to read the MU half or the DS9-R half first.
I see it as a kind of Sliding Doors thing. Almost. Sorta.

I have a worse dilemma to deal with: When Fearful Symmetry arrives, do I stop reading the Terok Nor trilogy (which I just started the second book of) and jump into it right away, or wait until I'm done with the trilogy?! Argh! Woe is me!
As I said, it's definitely finishing Terok Nor first for me. I've enjoyed how the trilogy has definitely incorporated elements from the post-series novels, and since they were released first, I'd like to read them first. Just in case.
 
I'm in the same boat...just started the first Terok Nor book not too long ago, and am only a little over 100 pages into it. Good read, but my reading time is limited. Of course, it's been so bloomin' long since Warpath came out, I might need a refresher before I read it. lol.

Good to see it's finally coming out though.
 
I have a feeling that it will probably be like most other Trek books and recap the events in previous stories for people who haven't read all of the books.
 
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