Name the first ST novel you read

[James Wright]

Can any of you name the first ST novel you read?
I can it was "The Final Nexus", a birthday gift from my mom.
Do you still have your first ST novel?
Which series of novels do you like? Me, I like TOS!

James

 

[Sci]

Spock's World by Diane Duane, then Vendetta by Peter David.

 

[Mysterion]

Spock Must Die by James Blish, sometime in the early-to-mid 1970's.

 

[James Wright]

Sci, I have the first novel you mentioned, don't think I have the second though!?
I also have the novel mentioned by Mysterion!

James

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

The Abode of Life. I was five years old and I begged my mom to buy it for me because it had Kirk and Spock in silver pajamas and gold boots on the cover. It was also my first novel that I attempted to read. Took awhile and I'm sure I didn't understand everything that first go 'round. Read it again in junior high and was quite disappointed in it.

However, I still have a fondness for the book since it was my first. I still posses the book for that sentimental reason.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Vendetta, by Peter David. It was also my first "grown-up" book.

But the first two to really inspire me were Uhura's Song, and Betrayal.

 

[David cgc]

It was either "Rogue Saucer" or "The Return." Not 100% sure.

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Hmmm. I think it was The Starless World, by Gordon Eklund. It may have been The Klingon Gambit, by Robert Vardeman, though I think I may have read the novelizations of TMP and TWoK before then. Tough to say, really, since it was close to 30 years ago.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Q-Squared by Peter David. I borrowed the book from my mom because I was curious about connecting Q and Trelane together. The rest, as they say, is history.

 

[Stevil2001]

The YA Generations novelization, I think. If it wasn't that, it was The Mystery of the Missing Crew. First adult book was probably James Blish's Star Trek 1, and first full novel was The Three-Minute Universe.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

I should add the YA books Capture the Flag and Prisoners of Peace. I think that like Betrayal (DS9 #6--the grown-up series! ), Prisoners of Peace really captured some themes that later became very important to me.

In fact, I now imagine Prisoners of Peace as having been written by Jake after the events of Betrayal...kind of a "do-over." It has that feel, that it could've actually been written by Jake at that age. (I don't mean that badly, though!)

 

[Deranged Nasat]

"The Battle of Betazed". I was 12. I had been watching both TNG reruns and first-UK-screening Voyager season seven on TV for a year, and I saw some books with Star Trek on them (understand, I didn't actually grasp it was a huge franchise at this point; I was surprised they had books too). One was called "The Battle of Betazed", which intrigued me because I knew of Betazed from TNG. I knew it was a peaceful garden planet, so why would there be a battle there? It was my introduction to the wonders of DS9 .

 

[Thrawn]

Well, looking over the lists on Steve Roby's site, I can tell you I must've started reading in 1993, since all the books from that year look extremely familiar, and the ones from 1992 don't. But that's pretty much the best I can do; I was 7 years old at the time and an awful lot has happened to me since

 

[ronny]

First round of reading ST books I read all the Blish and Foster books. I can't remember if the first one was was by Blish or Foster let alone which one. Nothing else was around so that was the end of that.

Second round of reading years later I saw a ton of ST books at a used book store, I didn't know they and had restarted putting them put, and picked up Timetrap. It doesn't get a lot of live here but I liked it. Read them for awhile but started to get bored because the new stuff was during the Richard Arnold era.

Third round A Stitch in Time sounded interesting so I picked it up. It was great and have been reading them since but I'm sort of reaching the point were I was at the end of round two, a lot of novelizations and the numbered books. I'm reading the new stuff but I seem to be slowing down on the older stuff I have left. Sometimes they are good but after a lot of what's left I find myself thinking I would rather have read something else.

 

[Therin of Andor]

"Mission to Horatius", first edition from Whitman, as a kid in the 60s - long before I'd ever seen TOS or TAS on TV. It was my younger brother's book, but now in my collection (because I saw copies in collectibles shops in 1980 for over $50 each - in poor condition!). I had received Whitman's "I Spy" the same Christmas he received the ST one.

Next was the novelization of ST:TMP (loved it!) in December 1979, then a few random Bantam Blishes and "Fate of the Phoenix" (took me many, many months to track down "Price of the Phoenix").

"The Battle of Betazed". I was 12.

Sob. Surely that was only last year. I mean, it certainly seems like it only came out last year.

I feel so old when I read posts that that.

 

[RoJoHen]

"The Battle of Betazed". I was 12.

Sob. Surely that was only last year. I mean, it certainly seems like it only came out last year.

I feel so old when I read posts that that.

It actually came out 8 years ago.


My first book was "The Return" by William Shatner.

 

[Therin of Andor]

It actually came out 8 years ago.

You didn't have to do that. You really didn't.

 

[RonG]

for me, it was Peter David's Vendetta in 1992, and I never looked back

 

[William Leisner]

The "Fotonovel" adaptation of "Amok Time"

 

[RogerWaters]

Death's Angel - Sometime back in the mid 70's. I still have it somewhere around here.