First TrekLit Read?
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I started off reading the Gold Key comics but my first Trek novel was the novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Or it may have been one of the Blish books. That was a long time ago so I'm a little shaky on exactly what the first book I read was.
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My first Trek novel. Star Trek: The New Voyages - 1976.
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Oooh I had that one! But long since lost :-(
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I have that exact same edition. Mine looks just about as worn as this one does!
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lol - same here and about the same level of wear as well.
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I have an earlier edition (same art, but with different title fonts and "First time published" at the top instead of the "An original STAR TREK adventure" heading of the '80s reissues), and its cover is in considerably worse shape, though I've barely looked at it in ages.
It's actually a 4th printing according to the copyright page, but from the same year as the original release. The first two printings were dated March 1976, the third April '76, and the fourth June '76. I guess it must've sold quite well to get four printings in three months.
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I don't remember which was the actual first one I read, but its one of the below:
Imzadi by Peter David
Q-Squared by Peter David
Ship of the Line by Diane Carey
Reunion by Michael Jan Friedman
Crossover by Michael Jan Friedman
I started reading in the mid/late 1990s. I picked up a few of these books together at either a used book store or new at actual new book store (I don't remember which was which unless I actually out the books and see the (c) year). I just don't remember which was the actual first read of mine.
Once I got hooked, and started going to the new run bookstore's ST section, that's where Peter David's House of Cards caught my eye and I got hooked on Star Trek: New Frontier.
Imzadi by Peter David
Q-Squared by Peter David
Ship of the Line by Diane Carey
Reunion by Michael Jan Friedman
Crossover by Michael Jan Friedman
I started reading in the mid/late 1990s. I picked up a few of these books together at either a used book store or new at actual new book store (I don't remember which was which unless I actually out the books and see the (c) year). I just don't remember which was the actual first read of mine.
Once I got hooked, and started going to the new run bookstore's ST section, that's where Peter David's House of Cards caught my eye and I got hooked on Star Trek: New Frontier.
I still have it, and actually just finished rereading it not that long ago.
Well, I had actually received Voyager: Pathways and Star Trek Reader 1 - 4 as gifts sometime early last year, but never actually got around to reading past the first few pages of Pathways.
Then sometime in last October, my fiancée and I basically went through a little personal hell which began with the death of her remaining parent. Both dealing horribly with depression as the world was crumbling around us, we went to the bookstore. As we both love books but simply just hadn't had the time read anything, this seemed as good a time as any.
She picked up something from her favorite series and I grabbed Section 31: Cloak and Letters to Star Trek.
I devoured Cloak in hours. I bought more. We went to the library. I checked them out by the armful. Only to discover that one of the local used bookstores had hundreds of Star Trek books for 50 cents.
I now have a book shelf crammed full of Star Trek books that are begging to be read. Nothing picks me up better than having my lifelong heroes go out on more adventures I never knew they had!
There so far has only been one book that was written so badly I couldn't get more than a few chapters in. If I can remember which one it was, I'll probably give it another chance soon. (Crossroads? Maybe. I'm not sure.)
It also helps that my fiancée and I had just recently discovered that we absolutely loved TOS. We'd never really been able to watch anything TOS but the movies. We still haven't seen all of TOS, but its so amazing when we do.
Then sometime in last October, my fiancée and I basically went through a little personal hell which began with the death of her remaining parent. Both dealing horribly with depression as the world was crumbling around us, we went to the bookstore. As we both love books but simply just hadn't had the time read anything, this seemed as good a time as any.
She picked up something from her favorite series and I grabbed Section 31: Cloak and Letters to Star Trek.
I devoured Cloak in hours. I bought more. We went to the library. I checked them out by the armful. Only to discover that one of the local used bookstores had hundreds of Star Trek books for 50 cents.
I now have a book shelf crammed full of Star Trek books that are begging to be read. Nothing picks me up better than having my lifelong heroes go out on more adventures I never knew they had!
There so far has only been one book that was written so badly I couldn't get more than a few chapters in. If I can remember which one it was, I'll probably give it another chance soon. (Crossroads? Maybe. I'm not sure.)
It also helps that my fiancée and I had just recently discovered that we absolutely loved TOS. We'd never really been able to watch anything TOS but the movies. We still haven't seen all of TOS, but its so amazing when we do.
I think it was probably Imzadi. The Riker/Troi relationship would be the one thing that would pull me past simple love of the show into pursuit of the characters beyond my TV screen.
I think Q-in-Law followed shortly. After that, I have no idea. I didn't read too much sci-fi in high school. I was too busy dreaming of Pern and my own dragon.
I think Q-in-Law followed shortly. After that, I have no idea. I didn't read too much sci-fi in high school. I was too busy dreaming of Pern and my own dragon.
It was DS9 : Fallen Heroes by Dafydd ab Hugh. It was sometime in 1995.
Mine was Spock's World. I dove in and I've never been out of the Treklit whirlpool, although I've been in the shallow end some times and the deep end at others.
Do you require comforting on any level?
Now that would be a fun intro. That book was notorious among my college Trekkie friends as "the book where everyone dies."
I know. I remember someone told me that before I started reading it, while at university.
