First TrekLit Read?

[OverlordSpock]

When I was eight or nine years old (back in '81-'82?) my mother used to take me to the bookstore with her. I remember walking by the same rack of books on the way to the "kids" section and seeing books that looked like they had Kirk and Spock on the cover, but I wasn't sure. We never stopped to look at them and I only caught glimpses. It didn't make sense to me back then that someone would want to READ about people they saw on TV, so I think I convinced myself that I must have been imagining things.

It wasn't until a few years later, and my reading level had drastically improved, that someone (I don't remember who), gave me a well-worn copy of one of the James Blish TV episode adaptations. I devoured that book. And, it made me remember those books I thought I saw in that bookstore. I asked my mother to take me back to that bookstore and I found that same rack. Yes, it WAS Kirk and Spock on those book covers! I purchased my first TrekLit book with my own money that day. I'm pretty sure it was The Entropy Effect.

I never looked back and I've been reading TrekLit from then through today.

 

[ronny]

The TAS adaptions after I saw the cartoons on Saturday morning. Then my mom told me there used to be a TV show so I moved on to the Blish books.

 

[Raisor]

AC Crispin's Yesterday's Son. (Trek #11)

 

[JD]

Before I could read my mom would read (the original, TNG, Voy, and TOS) Starfleet Academy YA and DS9 YA books to me every night, and once I could read I continued on with them myself. My first adult Trek books were the NF books when I was about twelve or thirteen. The memory of those being my first adult books will stick in my mind, because at the time my teacher wanted to check out the books we brought to school to make sure we could actually read them, and I was terrified she would come across one of the violent or risque scenes and not let me read them.

 

[rahullak]

TNG's Masks and Rock and a Hard Place from the local library here in India back in '98. Never looked back and really digging the relaunch novels.

 

[Ferd Burfel]

Devil's Heart.

-=shudder=-

 

[Starbreaker]

Q-Space. I was in 6th grade and had just started reading adult novels. I saw this one in Walmart, and had never even seen an episode of any Star Trek series. I've been hooked on reading and Star Trek ever since.

 

[David cgc]

Rogue Saucer, then The Return, and finally the Voyager "Invasion!" novel is what made getting Trek books a regular thing for me. A good thing, too. It meant I was ready to get into "New Frontier" on the ground floor.

 

[Smitty]

Spock Must Die! was my first book read, it might have been first in treklit other than novelizations of tos episodes. Anyway, the book was really bad...

 

[Agony_Boothb]

For me it was the Voyager novel, The Murdered Sun. I would have been about 14 at the time, and voyager was the first series i started watching. I must have read The Murdered Sun about 20 times, although now i can only remember the basic details of the book.

 

[BolianAuthor]

My first Trek novel was Vendetta, and also the James Blish TOS adaptations. My first film-era novel was How Much For Just The Planet?

 

[Lonemagpie]

The Entropy Effect, thanks to a good review in Blake's 7 Monthly (they also recommended Teh Stainless Steel Rat, so not bad...).

Hm, that's the other possibility for me- if it wasn't The Galactic Whirlpool then it was definitely The Entropy Effect. They were both round about the same time for me, though I'd got through the existing novelisations by then

 

[F. King Daniel]

Spock Must Die! was my first book read, it might have been first in treklit other than novelizations of tos episodes. Anyway, the book was really bad...

I really liked Spock Must Die! - and it wasn't until years later I learned that Blish had never actually seen an episode of the show. I had lots of fun spotting the references to his non-Trek books (A Dirac transmitter! The Vegan Tyranny!) too.

 

[Sci]

My first TrekLit read was Star Trek: The Next Generation: Starfleet Academy #1: Worf's First Adventure by Peter David. I was 9.

 

[Kataaran]

Mine was TNG 13 - Eyes of the Beholders. I remember buying it the weekend I had to be a bridesmaid and I was stuck in a hotel room for most of the time.

 

[LightningStorm]

My intro to Trek Lit was in 2000 when I bought (on a whim) Star Trek Voyager: Echoes at an airport bookstore to read on the plane. This book is one of the fastest books I've read (because it was so good) and remains in my top 10 of favorites.

 

[Cybersnark]

PAD's "Strike Zone" (I had to look it up; I remember that it involved the Kreel). My parents were taking me on my first airplane trip (to Florida), and Mom wanted something that would keep me quiet (knowing what I know now, she probably grabbed it from the airport bookstore completely at random). She probably wasn't expecting me to turn into a lifelong Trekkie.

 

[Ood Sigma]

First book I read, I borrowed from a friend on a band trip in high school. That was TNG: Exiles, followed shortly by TNG: Captains' Honor (I forget the numbers). A few months later, I bought my first books at a con - all TNG books: Chains of Command, Vendetta, and Metamorphosis.

 

[ATimson]

I have no idea what I first read. The first book I owned was The Captain's Daughter by Peter David.

 

[nightwind1]

One of the Blish books, bought in the store around 72 or 73, when I was 11 or 12.