Lit GENRES you'd like to see

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  1. Jinn

    Jinn Mistress of the Chaotic Energies Rear Admiral

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    Oh, sorry for misreading your post.

    Kirsten Beyer is probably the author who dealt most with the Tamarian species and language, so maybe if such a book was written by her and featured a "from the author of FULL CIRCLE [or Protectors or any other of her great Voyager novels] and the creative team of STAR TREK DISCOVERY" tag line it might sell better. :shrug:
     
  2. JoeZhang

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    A Jack Reacher style novel with a lot of ass-kicking in it.

    A spenser style detective novel.
     
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  3. Brefugee

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    That would actually be rather interesting.
     
  4. Laura Cynthia Chambers

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    This. More language and names.

    How about a book done in the style of a baby name book? With names, meanings, famous personages to have these names, variants, etc.
     
  5. Reanok

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    I like the Tom Clancy Mission ops series novels . I like spies and intrigue being explored in the Star trek books.
     
  6. JD

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    Haven't we already gotten quite a bit of that with all of the Section 31 stuff?
     
  7. Laura Cynthia Chambers

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    How about an anthology that tells the as-of-yet untold reasons why various Starfleet general orders were established?
     
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  8. Jinn

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    In From History's Shadow, I think the chapter where Ms Foster and her sonic pen (Great reference btw) first appeared and wiped Wainwrights recent memory (which seems to be a recurring theme), it was established that MJ-12 had at least twelve (IIRC) encounters with aliens of which we knew like 5. Maybe an anthology about the others would be interesting.
     
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  9. Reanok

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    I'd liked to see more Astronomy in the books talking about the new exo planets that have been recently discovered. I liked to see more space exploration in the books.
     
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  10. Dayton Ward

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    I second this recommendation.

    But, I'm biased.
     
  11. JD

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    Have they ever done a pure Dixon Hill story? I've haven't read it, but I do know A Hard Rain was a Dixon Hill holodeck story, so that doesn't count, I'm talking about something not involving Picard or any other future elements.
    This ties into another idea I had, a series of in-universe books mentioned in the shows, like Chicago Mobs of the Twenties, Hotel Royale, Anslem, ect.
     
  12. Idran

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    I was honestly really hoping to see a Chicago Mobs book published by Pocket in 1992; not necessarily even with any Trek branding, a straight-forward book with that title. Missed opportunity, I think. :p
     
  13. Laura Cynthia Chambers

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    The only problem with baby names is it might inspire people to name their kids Spock or Worf. Eek.
     
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  14. Laura Cynthia Chambers

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    I'd like to see more in-universe autobiographies. I'm halfway through Kirk's and am really enjoying it.
     
  16. Laura Cynthia Chambers

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    A book made up of a series of logs, personal and official.
     
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  18. Laura Cynthia Chambers

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    More on the satire/fun side.
     
  19. Reanok

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    I'd like to see a Deep Space Nine novel with Captain Ben Sisko and his Starship crew being featured in an entire novel . I miss seeing Ben Sisko having a major storyline in the Ds9 books.
     
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  20. Brefugee

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    That's not really a whole new genre of story that Star Trek hasn't done yet now is it.