I'm finally starting the Destiny trilogy!!

[bfollowell]

I did it! Woo hoo!!

Last year, after receiving my Kindle for Christmas, I set a goal of breaking my ten-year TrekLit hiatus and catching up with the current chronology. Starting with the DS9 relaunch series, I was going to read each book in order until I was caught up. Well, I haven't quite completed that lofty goal yet, but I have reached another milestone. The first was finishing the DS9 relaunch. The second, smaller milestone was finishing the A Time to… series (they seemed to keep coming forever!)

Now I've finally finished Greater Than the Sum. Yep, you guessed it, in a matter of minutes I'll finally be starting the long-awaited Destiny trilogy!!

Man, I can't wait!

Gotta go. Lots of reading to do!

- Byron

 

[Sho]

Congrats! I'm Orion with envy. Ah well, one day!

 

[JB2005]

I did it! Woo hoo!!

Last year, after receiving my Kindle for Christmas, I set a goal of breaking my ten-year TrekLit hiatus and catching up with the current chronology. Starting with the DS9 relaunch series, I was going to read each book in order until I was caught up. Well, I haven't quite completed that lofty goal yet, but I have reached another milestone. The first was finishing the DS9 relaunch. The second, smaller milestone was finishing the A Time to… series (they seemed to keep coming forever!)

Now I've finally finished Greater Than the Sum. Yep, you guessed it, in a matter of minutes I'll finally be starting the long-awaited Destiny trilogy!!

Man, I can't wait!

Gotta go. Lots of reading to do!

- Byron

I suspect you'll be finished before long! It's one of those books that keeps dragging you back in!

 

[Relayer1]

I did it! Woo hoo!!

Last year, after receiving my Kindle for Christmas, I set a goal of breaking my ten-year TrekLit hiatus and catching up with the current chronology. Starting with the DS9 relaunch series, I was going to read each book in order until I was caught up. Well, I haven't quite completed that lofty goal yet, but I have reached another milestone. The first was finishing the DS9 relaunch. The second, smaller milestone was finishing the A Time to… series (they seemed to keep coming forever!)

Now I've finally finished Greater Than the Sum. Yep, you guessed it, in a matter of minutes I'll finally be starting the long-awaited Destiny trilogy!!

Man, I can't wait!

Gotta go. Lots of reading to do!

- Byron

Let us know what you think - it's OK but I don't like it as much as everyone else seems to.

Now 'A Singular Destiny'....

 

[David Mack]

I almost wish the OP had waited a couple more months until the new-and-improved (80% less Stygian, one-third fewer smirks/smiles/grins) omnibus edition comes out. Oh, well...

 

[bfollowell]

I almost wish the OP had waited a couple more months until the new-and-improved (80% less Stygian, one-third fewer smirks/smiles/grins) omnibus edition comes out. Oh, well...

Trust me, I seriously considered it…

…for all of about ten seconds!

I still have the most recent Vanguard and Mirror Universe novels to read and I'm going to start reading through the Star Wars expanded universe with Timothy Zahn's novels too but I just couldn't stand to be that close and not start. I was drooling and itching to start all at the same time. I just couldn't stand it any longer!

Oh well, I rarely re-read novels but I've heard so much praise for these and read of so many people reading these over and over that, after getting completely caught up in a few months, taking a short Star Wars and maybe a Forgotten Realms or Dragonlance break, I could see myself re-reading the trilogy in the form of the new and improved omnibus.

Many thanks David for what is sure to be a thrill-ride.

- Byron

 

[Julio Angel Ortiz]

Wait until you get to the part where Q rides in on a unicorn, weaving a rainbow bridge through the galaxy that all the Delta Quadrant uses to join the Federation and stop the true threat of the Destiny trilogy...
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.....nanite Tribbles.

Hope I didn't spoil it for you.

 

[JB2005]

Jeez, way to give away the ending...

 

[Thrawn]

Congratulations! Look forward to reading your thoughts.

 

[JD]

You're in for a good read, trust me.

 

[timmy84]

I really enjoyed the Destiny series and it brought me back into the Star Trek bookverse (the DS9 books really start to drop the ball towards the last couple novels). Sadly the followup to destiny hasn't pulled me in as it should have since its something I always thought would have been really interesting and they just aren't hitting it right for me.

 

[WarsTrek1993]

Bfollowell, I hope you'll enjoy the "Destiny" trilogy. Those three books are some of the best Star Trek you'll ever read. David Mack is #1 Trek Author in my book thanks to it (and a few others...

 

[ICW]

The Destiny trilogy is easily the best 'Trek I've ever read. Truly gripping stuff.

 

[Hugh Cambridge]

The Destiny trilogy brought me back into Star Trek Lit too, since then I read the new books as the come out.
I read them without having read the relaunchs, as a standalone trilogy and it was fine for me.
And now that we know David Mack is preparing a new trilogy I'm eagerly waiting it

 

[Relayer1]

The Destiny trilogy brought me back into Star Trek Lit too, since then I read the new books as the come out.
I read them without having read the relaunchs, as a standalone trilogy and it was fine for me.
And now that we know David Mack is preparing a new trilogy I'm eagerly waiting it

Same for me - I hadn't read any Trek for several years and Destiny got me hooked again. I've since read the entire Relaunch and some of the older novels.

I devoured Destiny while on holiday a few years ago and really enjoyed it. It is an event, it's just not (as a lot of people seem to think) the best Trek I've ever read.

 

[Julio Angel Ortiz]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the Destiny trilogy is the Lord of the Rings of TrekLit. It's that epic.

 

[bbailey861]

You're not going to get much sleep in the next little while. Yup, they are that good.

 

[Sho]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the Destiny trilogy is the Lord of the Rings of TrekLit. It's that epic.

Geez, I hope not . Lord of the Rings is terribly dull if you're looking for compelling character drama. Whole whole characterization-by-species approach is lazy in today's context (and if you have multiple characters of the same species, you can't tell them apart - just ask someone what Merry did and what Pippin did). TrekLit can't get away that easily .

Really the only part that had some interesting character interplay way Sam and Frodo alone in Mordor ...

 

[captcalhoun]

Destiny's better than LOTR because they don't spend the whole trilogy walking to a fucking volcano they could've caught a giant eagle to.

Destiny's better than LOTR because it doesn't have 16 different endings.

 

[Relayer1]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the Destiny trilogy is the Lord of the Rings of TrekLit. It's that epic.

Geez, I hope not . Lord of the Rings is terribly dull if you're looking for compelling character drama. Whole whole characterization-by-species approach is lazy in today's context (and if you have multiple characters of the same species, you can't tell them apart - just ask someone what Merry did and what Pippin did). TrekLit can't get away that easily .

Really the only part that had some interesting character interplay way Sam and Frodo alone in Mordor ...

Well LOTR was never really a character piece - it's a mythology and as such stands on its own as THE masterclass in fantasy and worldbuilding.

There have been some great books in Treklit, but I really don't think that you can compare the two.

Not with a straight face anyway...