How Many Have Come Through?

[HIj'Qa]

I tried to find a roughly accurate number of Star Trek books published [so far]. The Simon and Schuster Pocket Books Star Trek series page nicely lists in a sidebar:

Star Trek: The Original Series (180)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (157)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (87)
Star Trek: All (74)
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers (72)
Star Trek: Voyager (45)
Star Trek: Enterprise (19)

totalling

634

However, this includes multiple listings [HC, mmpb and ebook versions] of the same titles.

This is slightly rougher than the rough estimate I was hoping for.

Anybody know a closer count or where to find one?


BTW - finding ebooks on the S&S websites looks much easier than I remember it!

 

[captcalhoun]

what's Star Trek: All? is that the series where the women wore uniforms that plunged to the navel?

 

[Trent Roman]

Wouldn't that be Star Trek: Practically Nothing instead?

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Christopher]

what's Star Trek: All?

That would be the category for books that don't fall under any specific subtitle, I suppose.

 

[captcalhoun]

humour. a difficult concept.

 

[foravalon]

My list sorts by a different criterion, the numbers get a bit dodgy when moving past the present and accounting for future publications, which may or may not come out, but here ye go...


Total Actual Books: 621
Novel 431
E-book 86
Novelization 35
Young Adult Novel 33
Anthology 24
Published Fan Fiction Anthology 12

Total Individual Stories: 968
Novella 12
Short Story 138
Published Fan Fiction 233
Novel 431
E-book 86
Novelization 35
Young Adult Novel 33

 

[foravalon]

The distinction between short story and novella also becomes a bit hazy for me., Likewise when taking individual stories into account with regards to books like the Rihaansu epic, where you get three books that are basically one big story, it gets a little wonky.

 

[Kopernikus]

My Excel-file lists me 622 (Did you count Kobayashi Maru already, could explain the difference of 1):


TOS-Bantam: 28
Ballantine-TAS: 10

Pocket Books:

TOS: 141
TOS-ebooks: 5
Eugenis Wars: 3
Challenger: 1
Vanguard: 3
Excelsior: 1
Shatnerverse: 10

TNG: 112
TNG-Relaunch: 5
TNG-ebooks: 6
Stargazer: 7
Titan: 4
Klingon Empire: 4

DS9: 46
DS9-Relaunch: 17

Voyager: 36
Voyager-Relaunch: 4

Enterprise: 10
Enterprise-Relaunch: 2

New Frontier: 19

CoE: 74

Lost Era: 7

Misc: 29

Young Adult: 39

 

[Christopher]

My Excel-file lists me 622 (Did you count Kobayashi Maru already, could explain the difference of 1):

...

TOS-ebooks: 5

There's your difference of one, I think. Mere Anarchy is six parts.

 

[Idoliside]

When you say ebooks there, are you just counting digital exclusive books, or all ebooks. Cos im sure theres more than 6 TOS ebooks.

 

[Steve Roby]

I tried to find a roughly accurate number of Star Trek books published [so far].

The problem is, it depends on what you're talking about when you're talking about Star Trek books. There are well over a thousand of them now. Seriously. Scroll down this list. It's not numbered, but it's obviously a lot of printed books. Some are nonfiction, some are comic book reprint collections, some are strategy guides for video games, and so on and so on.

As for fiction, there's adaptations of episodes and movies, novels, short story collections, children's books, young adult books, choose your own adventure stories, and omnibus collections reprinting various novels. And that's without getting into the question of ebooks.

So... it depends what you mean by Star Trek books. And published.

 

[nx1701g]

humour. a difficult concept.

"We learn by doing..."

And yes I've been holding up the damn elevator.

 

[LightningStorm]

DS9: 46
DS9-Relaunch: 17

I assume the 17 relaunch books are counted as apart of the 46 DS9 books? If not... What 46 books are there that are not relaunch??

And so, I assume all of your counts worked this way?

 

[Steve Roby]

Really depends how you define things. You could say there are more than 46 non-relaunch books, though some people might include some of the items below as relaunch. Even if you count Terok Nor and A Stitch in Time as relaunch there's still more than 46. Some might choose to exclude novelizations, which would change the count. Some might not include the YA books. There's no one correct answer until you define your terms.

Emissary
The Search
The Way of the Warrior
Trials and Tribble-ations
Far Beyond the Stars
The Dominion War 2 Call to Arms...
The Dominion War 4 ...Sacrifice of Angels
What You Leave Behind
Warped
Prophecy and Change
2 The Siege
3 Bloodletter
4 The Big Game
5 Fallen Heroes
6 Betrayal
7 Warchild
8 Antimatter
9 Proud Helios
10 Valhalla
11 Devil in the Sky
12 The Laertian Gamble
13 Station Rage
14 The Long Night
15 Objective: Bajor
16 Invasion! 3 Time's Enemy
17 Heart of the Warrior
18 Saratoga
19 The Tempest
20 Wrath of the Prophets
21 Trial by Error
22 Vengeance
23 The 34th Rule
24 Rebels 1: The Conquered
25 Rebels 2: The Courageous
26 Rebels 3: The Liberated
27 A Stitch in Time
Millennium Book I: The Fall of Terok Nor
Millennium Book II: The War of the Prophets
Millennium Book III: Inferno
Hollow Men
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Day of Honor 2 Armageddon Sky
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Captain's Table 3 The Mist
Star Trek: Terok Nor Day of the Vipers 2318-2328
Star Trek: Terok Nor Night of the Wolves 2345-2357
Star Trek: Terok Nor Dawn of the Eagles 2360-2369
1 The Star Ghost
2 Stowaways
3 Prisoners of Peace
4 The Pet
5 Arcade
6 Field Trip
7 Gypsy World
8 Highest Score
9 Cardassian Imps
10 Space Camp
11 Day of Honor: Honor Bound
12 Trapped in Time

And if you were to count the Globe Fearon books, regular DS9 books revised to be suitable for younger readers by Joanne Suter, you could add five more books to the list. And if you included comic reprint collections, that would add several more.

 

[LightningStorm]

Really depends how you define things.

I took it to mean: fiction, novels, all DS9 anthologies (where the anthology counts as one i.e. Prophecy and Change), not young adult, not reprints, and not omnibusses that are reprints of singular books (so Millennium would count as 3 not 1 and not 4), and no comics reprints or otherwise. Maybe e-book only series (which I don't think DS9 has had any of) but not their reprints into paper form. And difficult to say if I'd count episode novelizations, I suppose so though. I was really thinking in terms of original fiction.

And, yes, I realize that is a limiting and selective/subjective definition of it all.

 

[foravalon]

Not Really, it's a totally fine viewpoint. I do count the young adult books because they are in-universe tales which on occasion do directly relate to other novels. I don't include comic series in the count, though I do include them in the listing in cases such as the DS9-Relaunch, and New Frontier, where they are direct entries in the ongoing narrative. But they aren't books and my count is of books. The definition of book also becomes loose, do you define a book by its binding? What then of e-books?

Ultimately it made the most sense for me to reckon the count by "stories" a more or less self-contained story by a particular author or authors, this also makes it easier to make a list of a particular author's works and contributions and also makes it easier to define short stories, novellas, and ebooks, (technically novellas?). I specify ebooks because, in the case of the stories count, it's easiest to note them in the list in their originally published form. Though the paperback "reprints" are technically first printings, that doesn't make them anthologies, just collections, Which aren't counted because they're just repetitions.

For some reason the hard ones to sort by these different criteria were the Worlds of DS9 books, which ended up being not 3 books but 6 novellas, and KRAD's Brave and the Bold books, which weren't anthologies and weren't really collections. Were they separate stories or were they one big story? Did the Enterprise prologue count as a short?

Oy. For that example i think I ended up just calling them 2 books and didn't bother differentiating the stories inside since they were from a single author anyway, which is totally a unique case, well except for MJF's Worlds and Civilizations, which is a different story altogether.

 

[Timewalker]

I am so going to need a bigger house...

 

[Christopher]

Not Really, it's a totally fine viewpoint. I do count the young adult books because they are in-universe tales which on occasion do directly relate to other novels. I don't include comic series in the count, though I do include them in the listing in cases such as the DS9-Relaunch, and New Frontier, where they are direct entries in the ongoing narrative. But they aren't books and my count is of books. The definition of book also becomes loose, do you define a book by its binding? What then of e-books?

A book is defined by its contents, not its packaging. Ancient books were written on scrolls, on bound leaves of bark or bamboo, even carved into clay or stone. The word "book" seems to come from a root related to "beech," suggesting that the earliest books in the Indo-European language family were carved into beech wood. A book is no less a book for being printed electronically, and it certainly is no less a book for containing images and text together (they do call them comic books, after all).

 

[foravalon]

Thank you for illustrating my point so well christopher.