Metamorphosis is a really well known novel, though.
Less known star trek books
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Not sure if it has much mention, but I recall always having enjoyed TNG's "Dragon's Honor". Good story with abundant humour.
I had just finished Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October, then I read Rules of Engagement.
I thought I was was reading a Star Trek version of Clancy's story.
Exactly. Rules is probably one of the more "realistic" feeling Trek novels, IMO. And the echoes of Clancy's book are striking. I wonder if Peter Morwood was deliberately going for that or not.
I need to re-read Red October one of these days myself...
Thanks! That's not a book I heard about much anymore.
And, of course, I have to give much of the credit to my distinguished co-writer, Kij Johnson, who came up with the plot and characters in the first place.
Rebels was weirdly plotted, with a pretty unlikely story point in Kai Winn taking command of DS9 when Sisko was away.
Deep Domain was Howard Weinstein. From the Depths was by Victor Milan. Not sure which one you meant. Similar names, easy to get mixed up?
From the Depths was forgettable, but I remember really liking Deep Domain. (I think I already mentioned it in this thread.) IIRC Weinstein said in the foreword that it was based on his ideas for the Star Trek IV "save the whales" movie.
I need to reread it sometime.
Weinstein really captures the feel of TOS movie era Trek. His DC comics run was good too.
From the Depths was forgettable, but I remember really liking Deep Domain. (I think I already mentioned it in this thread.) IIRC Weinstein said in the foreword that it was based on his ideas for the Star Trek IV "save the whales" movie.
I need to reread it sometime.
Weinstein really captures the feel of TOS movie era Trek. His DC comics run was good too.
I absolutely love that one! And Sonni Cooper is a really nice lady - she was a Guest of Honor at a Calgary convention back in the '80s.DorkBoy [TM];5332508 said:Black Fire was good - it started with a real BANG!
My choice is one of the few books I actually considered returning to the store because I found it utterly unreadable: How Much For Just the Planet?
Luckily I gave it another chance once I figured out the secret to enjoying it. It really helps to have a theatrical background to fully imagine the action in this one!
I absolutely love that one! And Sonni Cooper is a really nice lady - she was a Guest of Honor at a Calgary convention back in the '80s.DorkBoy [TM];5332508 said:Black Fire was good - it started with a real BANG!
My choice is one of the few books I actually considered returning to the store because I found it utterly unreadable: How Much For Just the Planet?
Luckily I gave it another chance once I figured out the secret to enjoying it. It really helps to have a theatrical background to fully imagine the action in this one!
One of my favourite ever stories - we've had regular debates on here over the years about where all the songs came from, and one of my real regrets with Star Trek Magazine was we never got to the bottom of that, and were able to run the full list!
It would be such a hoot to see that book performed as a real-life operetta! 
I still wonder what a plomeek milkshake tastes like...
I still wonder what a plomeek milkshake tastes like...
It would be such a hoot to see that book performed as a real-life operetta!
I still wonder what a plomeek milkshake tastes like...
At the back of my mind was the thought that this would be feasible... IF we could work out what the darned tunes were...
I've become increasingly convinced that many or all of the songs were just approximately based on existing songs or standard types of song, or drawing on snippets of different song melodies/rhythms. Besides, what with licensing fees and all, the best way to do it on stage would be to write new music.
Diane Carey's Starfleet Academy, loosely based on the PC/Super Nintendo game, was enjoyable. Ditto Susan Wright's The Best and Brightest. Both books follow the adventures of groups of (unknown) Starfleet cadets in the TOS movie and TNG eras.
I'd love to know what became of all those cadets.
I'd love to know what became of all those cadets.
Sigh. How I wish I'd videotaped that afternoon of merriment we spent with John M Ford in Sydney, when we had several stage musical fanatics in our ST club singing snippets of "How Much for Just the Planet?" at John, and his wicked grins and hints. Sadly, the two most successful ones had a falling out a few years ago and my attempts to get them to relive the experience have failed.
Yeah, both of those were very good. I liked M'Giia, and Wright wrote what was probably the first homosexual relationship I encountered in fiction. (I kept on thinking I must have gotten the genders of one of the characters wrong, but no.)
It was a n'gaan milkshake, not a plomeek milkshake.
Nobody's mentioned The Vulcan Academy Murders. Nor Diane Carey's "Piper" novels (yes, they're Mary-Sues, but they're very good Mary-Sues! And yes, they're full of hard-Libertarian politics, but that's just Diane Carey.)
And going back to the Bantams (and about the best I can say about The Starless World is that it was the least-deplorable of the "Enterprise crew gets roughed-up by a local superbeing after mucking about in something that was none of their business" books that seemed to be every other Bantam release of that period), I don't think anybody mentioned Trek to Madworld (aka "Captain Kirk Meets Willy Wonka").
Nobody's mentioned The Vulcan Academy Murders. Nor Diane Carey's "Piper" novels (yes, they're Mary-Sues, but they're very good Mary-Sues! And yes, they're full of hard-Libertarian politics, but that's just Diane Carey.)
And going back to the Bantams (and about the best I can say about The Starless World is that it was the least-deplorable of the "Enterprise crew gets roughed-up by a local superbeing after mucking about in something that was none of their business" books that seemed to be every other Bantam release of that period), I don't think anybody mentioned Trek to Madworld (aka "Captain Kirk Meets Willy Wonka").
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