New 2017 titles and blurbs - DTI, McCormack DS9, and more!

[DarkHorizon]

A bunch of new titles have shown up at Amazon, filling out the summer 2017 releases!

The previously-announced Hearts and Minds from Dayton Ward gets a June release (street date May 30th):

Captain Jean-Luc Picard returns in this electrifying thriller set in the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe!

2031: United States Air Force fighter jets shoot down an unidentified spacecraft and take its crew into custody. Soon, it’s learned that the ship is one of several dispatched across space by an alien species, the Eizand, to search for a new home before their own world becomes uninhabitable. Fearing extraterrestrial invasion, government and military agencies which for more than eighty years have operated in secret swing into action, charged with protecting humanity no matter the cost...

2386: Continuing their exploration of the Odyssean Pass, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise discover what they at first believe is a previously uncharted world, with a civilization still recovering from the effects of global nuclear war. An astonishing priority message from Starfleet Command warns that there’s more to this planet than meets the eye, and Picard soon realizes that the mysteries of this world may well weave through centuries of undisclosed human history...

June 19 sees the release of another DTI eBook from CLB, Shield of the Gods, featuring the Aegis:

An all new Star Trek e-novella featuring the fan-favorite Federation bureau the Department of Temporal Investigations!

The stalwart agents of the Department of Temporal Investigations have tracked down many dangerous artifacts, but now they face a greater, more personal challenge: retrieving a time-travel device stolen from their own vault by a rogue agent of the Aegis, a powerful, secretive group that uses its mastery of time to prevent young civilizations from destroying themselves. Blaming the Aegis itself for a tragedy yet to come, this renegade plans to use the stolen artifact to sabotage its efforts in the past, no matter what the cost to the timeline. Now the DTI’s agents must convince the enigmatic Aegis to work alongside them in order to protect history—but they must also wrestle with the potential consequences of their actions, for preserving the past could doom countless lives in the future!

And, last but no means least, a new Una McCormack DS9 novel, Enigma Tales, is the July release (out June 28), and yes, it's a Garak story...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Fall comes a compelling and suspenseful tale of politics and power set in the universe of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Elim Garak has ascended to Castellan of the Cardassian Union...but despite his soaring popularity, the imminent publication of a report exposing his people's war crimes during the occupation on Bajor looks likely to set the military against him. Into this tense situation come Dr. Katherine Pulaski—visiting Cardassia Prime to accept an award on behalf of the team that solved the Andorian genetic crisis—and Dr. Peter Alden, formerly of Starfleet Intelligence. The two soon find themselves at odds with Garak and embroiled in the politics of the prestigious University of the Union, where a new head is about to be appointed. Among the front-runners is one of Cardassia’s most respected public figures: Professor Natima Lang. But the discovery of a hidden archive from the last years before the Dominion War could destroy Lang’s reputation. As Pulaski and Alden become drawn into a deadly game to exonerate Lang, their confrontation escalates with Castellan Garak—a reluctant leader treading a fine line between the bright hopes for Cardassia’s future and the dark secrets still buried in its past...

Interestingly, that leaves a gap in the schedule at the moment - no May book (end of April street date) is currently listed. Could it be a space for David Mack's Discovery novel (although it might be released later in the month than normal, depending on the series airdates...)? Alternatively, the schedule may not yet have caught up with the delay to Kirsten's Architects of Infinity.

 

[Reanok]

Thanks for posting this book news. They all sound like great books. Una's Novel sounds really exciting. I'm so glad we'll be getting 2 new ds9 books next year yay!

 

[ryan123450]

Great news as always!

 

[Jinn]

I'm looking forward to all of these, though I am currently not sure how I'll deal with Hearts and Minds, as I love Dayton's 20th century stuff, but I am currently not catched up on all the TNG stuff. Cross Cult will release Aramgeddon's Arrow in June 2017 so I might have to scratch all my plans to catch up with post-Nemesis Trek, so that I can read it as soon as possible.

 

[Markonian]

Awesome news!

 

[Csalem]

Really looking forward to the DS9 novel after reading that blurb.

 

[JD]

All of those sound great.

A bunch of new titles have shown up at Amazon, filling out the summer 2017 releases!

The previously-announced Hearts and Minds from Dayton Ward gets a June release (street date May 30th):

Hopefully if I'm lucky I'll be caught up with the TNG and 20th Century stuff by June.

June 19 sees the release of another DTI eBook from CLB, Shield of the Gods, featuring the Aegis:

Hmm, so I wonder if this means DTI e-books will be a regular thing now.

And, last but no means least, a new Una McCormack DS9 novel, Enigma Tales, is the July release (out June 28), and yes, it's a Garak story...


Interestingly, that leaves a gap in the schedule at the moment - no May book (end of April street date) is currently listed. Could it be a space for David Mack's Discovery novel (although it might be released later in the month than normal, depending on the series airdates...)? Alternatively, the schedule may not yet have caught up with the delay to Kirsten's Architects of Infinity.

I can't not be excited for a Una McCormack Cardassia/Garak story, and I'm really excited to see her bring Natima Lang back. When was the last time we saw Natima?

 

[Christopher]

Hmm, so I wonder if this means DTI e-books will be a regular thing now.

No, I basically approached it (at least the last two parts) as a trilogy. The three e-novellas together add up to the length of a novel, and I've structured them so that they could sort of work as a novel-length story in three parts, with each installment growing out of the events of the previous one. (Although I don't know if there's any realistic prospect of them ever being collected that way, so don't get your hopes up. Would be nice, though.)

Part of the basic idea behind the DTI, after all, is that they aren't swashbuckling action heroes like Starfleet personnel, and thus they shouldn't really be having adventures on a regular basis. I can't rule out the possibility of doing more in the future -- after all, they keep asking me for more -- but doing it too regularly would strain the premise, I think.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Part of the basic idea behind the DTI, after all, is that they aren't swashbuckling action heroes like Starfleet personnel, and thus they shouldn't really be having adventures on a regular basis.

Shame, that. That could change, right?

 

[JD]

No, I basically approached it (at least the last two parts) as a trilogy. The three e-novellas together add up to the length of a novel, and I've structured them so that they could sort of work as a novel-length story in three parts, with each installment growing out of the events of the previous one. (Although I don't know if there's any realistic prospect of them ever being collected that way, so don't get your hopes up. Would be nice, though.)

Part of the basic idea behind the DTI, after all, is that they aren't swashbuckling action heroes like Starfleet personnel, and thus they shouldn't really be having adventures on a regular basis. I can't rule out the possibility of doing more in the future -- after all, they keep asking me for more -- but doing it too regularly would strain the premise, I think.

I didn't realize the e-books were connected like that. Thanks for the explanation.

 

[Idran]

Shame, that. That could change, right?

That's part of the charm of the series, though; that our heroes aren't adventurers, they're bureaucrats.

 

[Cyfa]

I shouldn't wish my life away, but I'd gladly skip a few months to read all of these!

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

That's part of the charm of the series, though; that our heroes aren't adventurers, they're bureaucrats.

I guess that's what the guest characters are for. But you'd think they'd have a division for that.

 

[Plaristes]

Part of the basic idea behind the DTI, after all, is that they aren't swashbuckling action heroes like Starfleet personnel, and thus they shouldn't really be having adventures on a regular basis. I can't rule out the possibility of doing more in the future -- after all, they keep asking me for more -- but doing it too regularly would strain the premise, I think.

I wouldn't think that a good DTI story would have to be an adventure. It could just involve figuring out a temporal mystery of some sort, right?

 

[Idran]

I wouldn't think that a good DTI story would have to be an adventure. It could just involve figuring out a temporal mystery of some sort, right?

Oh huh. Lije Dulmer and R. Daneel Lucsly?

 

[Jarvisimo]

That Una novel sounds amazing!!!!! I love that it is about academia and politics. Most excellent.

 

[CaptainDonovin]

Looks fascinating. I've not read anything from the 2016 releases though they're collecting dust in my kindle. Now that I'm taking medical leave to fight this cancer of mine I just might get caught up.

 

[Enterprise1701]

Wow, Dayton Ward goes from the 1960s to the 1980s to the 2030s. I hope we get to see lots of the fictitious pre-World War III state of Earth.

Aegis! Oh yes.

 

[Defcon]

I have done a long overdue update to the upcoming books list on a another forum, and while I think I have everything covered I figured I could ask here if I have missed anything? Maybe it even is helpful for someone here.

Star Trek

January 2017: The Face of the Unknown * Christopher L. Bennett

The Next Generation

February 2017: Headlong Flight * Dayton Ward
June 2017: Hearts and Minds * Dayton Ward

Deep Space Nine

March 2017: The Long Mirage * David R. George III
July 2017: Enigma Tales * Una McCormack

Voyager

October 2017: Architects of Infinity * Kirsten Beyer
tba: To Lose the Earth * Kirsten Beyer

Enterprise

No books announced at the moment

New Frontier

No books announced at the moment

U.S.S. Titan

2018: Fortune of War * David Mack

Seekers

No books announced at the moment

MISC

October 2016: Prey, Book One: Hell's Heart * John Jackson Miller
October 2016: Strange New Worlds 2016 * various
November 2016: Prey, Book Two: The Jackal's Trick * John Jackson Miller
December 2016: Prey, Book Three: The Hall of Heroes * John Jackson Miller
December 2016: Prometheus, Book One: Fire against Fire * Christian Humberg & Bernd Perplies (Published by Cross Cult; eBook only; translation of the German trilogy)
January 2017: Prometheus, Book Two: The Source Of All Fury * Christian Humberg & Bernd Perplies (Published by Cross Cult; eBook only; translation of the German trilogy)
February 2017: Prometheus, Book Three: Into The Heart Of Chaos * Christian Humberg & Bernd Perplies (Published by Cross Cult; eBook only; translation of the German trilogy)
April 2017: Section 31: Control * David Mack
May (?) 2017: Discovery tie in novel #1 * David Mack (/w Kirsten Beyer)
June 2017: DTI: Shield of the Gods * Christopher L. Bennett (eBook only)

 

[ryan123450]

Looks fascinating. I've not read anything from the 2016 releases though they're collecting dust in my kindle. Now that I'm taking medical leave to fight this cancer of mine I just might get caught up.

Sorry to hear that, @CaptainDonovin. Good luck.