Lit GENRES you'd like to see

[hbquikcomjamesl]

But they don't necessarily all lead to the same conclusion, any more than they do in an Infocom game. Take "Plundered Hearts," for example: Aside from there being numerous ways to get yourself killed (or worse) without ever seeing the endgame, there are four distinct conclusions if you DO make it to the endgame.

 

[SicOne]

More of the types of stories we saw in the Myriad Universes trades; the "What If's?" of the TrekVerse. Authors had a free hand to kill off major characters, make significant changes, et al, with no magic reset.

 

[JD]

I miss the Myriad Universes books, they were a lot of fun.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Logic brainteasers.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

a book starring Sam Cogley -- also by Dean? I forget

You're thinking of The Case of the Colonist's Corpse by Bob Ingersoll (a real-life attorney, BTW) and Tony Isabella. It was basically a Perry Mason-style mystery set in the ST Universe. One thing I loved was that Cogley had his offices in the Bradbury Building.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I think it would be neat to have inspirational Trek fiction. Maybe even an Amish fiction book set in the Trek timeline. It's not unreasonable to think they might wish to start new colonies on other planets - there's plenty of Amish fiction centered around them moving to new communities.

You're thinking of The Case of the Colonist's Corpse by Bob Ingersoll (a real-life attorney, BTW) and Tony Isabella. It was basically a Perry Mason-style mystery set in the ST Universe. One thing I loved was that Cogley had his offices in the Bradbury Building.

Too bad there aren't more like this.

 

[JD]

I keep trying to come up with more genres I'd like to see, but pretty much every one I come up with has been done.
Spy fiction - the whole Bashir/Section 31 saga
Murder mystery -The Case of the Colonist's Corpse and I think there was an SCE story with Corsi investigating a murder
Medical - Double Helix.
Character biography - several including The Autobiography of James T. Kirk and Burning Dreams

 

[Desert Kris]

I think it would be neat to have inspirational Trek fiction. Maybe even an Amish fiction book set in the Trek timeline. It's not unreasonable to think they might wish to start new colonies on other planets - there's plenty of Amish fiction centered around them moving to new communities.

It sounds like it could be interesting. I assume you mean based on one of ST's alien cultures, so a Kahless or Surak or Prophet's faith based kind of parody?

I wonder if a "Modern Historical event" could work as an angle. Like Jim Lovell's Lost Moon (the basis for the Apollo 13 movie) or One Day in September (about the 1972 Olympics in Munich, although I would prefer not to see a terrorist incident, it's getting old and we already have ST Into Darkness), a one day historical event with lots of factor's leading into the event, and all kinds of complicated consequences leading out of it, with the central 2/3rds of the book being a "real-time" thing, like the last half hour of the movie Zero Dark Thirty. Push for some kind of gritty reality; a one-shot story where heroic last minute saves aren't going to be plausible. The main event ends with a kind of fizzle out rather than an action set-piece, the way real life does sometimes (but the book can get mileage out of the "consequence phase" of the book that follows).

I'm thinking of the novel The Final Reflection, where a series of machinations instigated by the Klingon captain results in a particular outcome at the last Babel conference he goes to, except the idea I'm proposing would focus on that conference, rather than the life story of Krenn.

 

[JD]

Serpents Among the Ruins and The Art of the Impossible kind of feel like Trek historical fiction to me.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Logic brainteasers.

Then you're in luck:
https://www.amazon.ca/Spocks-Logic-...1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1472353958&sr=1-1-fkmr0

Despite Amazon saying it's not out until 2017, I have actually seen this in person at Chapters already, although I didn't buy it. Perhaps you can find it at a store near you:

https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-c...kwid=spock+logic+puzzles&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=0

 

[Greg Cox]

I think it would be neat to have inspirational Trek fiction. Maybe even an Amish fiction book set in the Trek timeline. It's not unreasonable to think they might wish to start new colonies on other planets - there's plenty of Amish fiction centered around them moving to new communities.

Have you read Still Forms on Foxfield by Joan Slonczewski? It's not a Trek novel, but it is a good science-fiction novel about a planet colonized by Quakers.

Mind you, I haven't read it in decades, but I remember enjoying it back in the day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still_Forms_on_Foxfield

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Never heard of it before.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

It sounds like it could be interesting. I assume you mean based on one of ST's alien cultures, so a Kahless or Surak or Prophet's faith based kind of parody?

Not a parody. I mean actual Amish people.

 

[Greg Cox]

Never heard of it before.

You might also like "The People" books by Zenna Henderson . . . if you can find them these days.

 

[JD]

I was watching Darmok this morning as part of my 50th Anniversary Trek watch on Netflix, and I thought of a cool idea for a book, a collection of mythological/historical alien stories. We could get some stories about the Prophets from the Bajorans, Surak from Vulcans, Kahless from the Klingons, and some of Tamarian stories used in Darmok, like Darmok and Jalad, Shaka, Temba, Sokath, ect.

 

[Jinn]

I was watching Darmok this morning as part of my 50th Anniversary Trek watch on Netflix, and I thought of a cool idea for a book, a collection of mythological/historical alien stories. We could get some stories about the Prophets from the Bajorans, Surak from Vulcans, Kahless from the Klingons, and some of Tamarian stories used in Darmok, like Darmok and Jalad, Shaka, Temba, Sokath, ect.

Surak appeared Vulcan's Soul: "Exodus" and Kahless in TNG: "Kahless". I'm not sure if those are the type of stories you're looking for, but Exodus is great.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Maybe Dara's story can be told in full. http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Dara_(Tagas)

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Maybe some of our best caption contest entries could be published in a book, or a book full of "made up episodes" based on silly screen caps. (Think a better version of the leaf trading cards captions)

 

[JD]

Surak appeared Vulcan's Soul: "Exodus" and Kahless in TNG: "Kahless". I'm not sure if those are the type of stories you're looking for, but Exodus is great.

Not really. I'm mainly just talking about about a collection of the myths and stories, not necessarily the real histories. I'll admit, I'm mainly interested in the Tamarian stories, but I figured it probably wouldn't be enough draw to get people to buy the book. I was just thinking it would be cool to get some context to what they were referring to in the episode. Who were Darmok and Jalad, why did Shaka's walls fall, who was Temba spreading his arms for?

Maybe Dara's story can be told in full. http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Dara_(Tagas)

That is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about.

 

[Desert Kris]

I was watching Darmok this morning as part of my 50th Anniversary Trek watch on Netflix, and I thought of a cool idea for a book, a collection of mythological/historical alien stories. We could get some stories about the Prophets from the Bajorans, Surak from Vulcans, Kahless from the Klingons, and some of Tamarian stories used in Darmok, like Darmok and Jalad, Shaka, Temba, Sokath, ect.

That sounds like an amazing idea, collected myths and legends of the peoples of the galaxy! There's some intriguing glimpses of Kahless's legacy, and historical speculation about what he was really like in The Klingon Art of War, and it would be neat to see a book that looks at the legends, with in universe historians and anthropologists providing commentary on the "real" historical figures (or the historical evidence pointing to different versions of events). I love the idea, and now I want the book!