New "New Frontier"? Maybe!

[RoJoHen]

I'm all for one more NF novel, and I would love it to be a finale, if only because future books seem unlikely. If the characters continue being used elsewhere afterwards, that's cool, but I'd love this crew to get one final adventure to provide the series with some closure.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

I'd love more New Frontier, by PAD or some of the other great writers doing treklit these days. If it does turn out to be a finale, though, then that's OK too, it's had a good run.

 

[Relayer1]

However you look at it, healthwise, saleswise or ongoing vision for Treklit, it's likely that this is the last NF novel coming from Peter.

PAD seems to be on the mend, and is still writing novels and comics, AFAIK, and making convention appearances - and do we know that sales actually fell for "New Frontier"?

The series moved to hardcover because of excellent sales, and seemingly only moved to trade PB (and reprinted in MMPB) because Pocket/Gallery weren't doing as much in original-to-hardcover any more.

Well, (and I realise this isn't established fact), the impression I got on here was that the NF was a lot less popular than it used to be. I may be wrong.

 

[Paris]

^The waning love for New Frontier may be the case around these boards lately...but as we've all noted before, we are a small percentage of the fan base who buys the books. Without seeing actual sales figures, we simply have no idea how well the NF books sell. Since nothing new has come our way in a few years, I think we may just assume that sales weren't great. I guess we'll see

 

[zarkon]

Yeah, it's less rated - personally the last five star NF book was Stone and Anvil - but I don't know if that's translated into lower sales at all. Even if they haven't been as good, I've bought all the post timeskip nf books day one.

 

[Relayer1]

So I'll rephrase -

IF the series is likely to end, it would be better to finish it properly with a final novel from PAD.

If they still sell and PAD is able to/wishes to continue (or if someone wants to take over) that would also be good.

Either way, I'd like to see closer links for NF with the rest of Treklit...

 

[Paris]

Either way, I'd like to see closer links for NF with the rest of Treklit...

Ditto

 

[Enterprise1701]

I wish Peter David could rewrite Treason and Blind Man's Bluff because of the discontinuities they have with the rest of the novelverse and because of Selar's death. But heck, I was never a fan of the Selar-Burgoyne relationship in the first place.

 

[Fer]

It could always do both-- it could be a grand finale that wraps up the dangling plot threads, and yet still leaves enough in place so that new stories could be written at some future date. Like, y'know... "All Good Things...," "What You Leave Behind," or "Endgame."

 

[Therin of Andor]

Since nothing new has come our way in a few years, I think we may just assume that sales weren't great. I guess we'll see

It was my impression that there had been some kind of rift between PAD and his Pocket editor, Ed S., as intimated in several posts on PAD's blog in recent years. PAD had had several three-book-deal contracts with his Trek novel writing, but that wasn't being offered again. PAD was stating, in public, that his editor wasn't returning communications. Some kind of stalemate. And somewhere in the middle of all that was PAD's health scare.

But this could be totally unrelated to NF book sales. The recent trades still got their MMPB releases. Unless the MMPB reprints were contractually mandated, poor sales on the trades probably wouldn't have progressed to MMPB releases for those titles at all.

 

[Corran Horn]

I think NF suffered from the time jumps and splitting up the crew.

I have to admit, though, when Janos went all Charly-style I teared up a bit.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I have to admit, though, when Janos went all Charly-style I teared up a bit.

As we were supposed to. Powerful story, beautifully told.

 

[JD]

Personally, I kind of hope if we do get one more NF book that it is the last. While I still enjoyed the last few books, they were not even close to the level of the first few, and it was kind of starting to get kind of overshadowed by the rest for me. I would love to see the series go out with a bang while it is still readable, instead of dragging on forever with crappy stories like some series seem to.

 

[Deano2099]

I think a trilogy to wrap it up would be the best of both worlds. There's far, far too much going on in the series to wrap it up in a single book, even if it's DRGIII size...

 

[ClayinCA]

I think a trilogy to wrap it up would be the best of both worlds. There's far, far too much going on in the series to wrap it up in a single book, even if it's DRGIII size...

^ This. An epic saga like New Frontier deserves a grand finale. (But I confess I would prefer one like "All Good Things," with a thematic ending, as opposed to, say, the finale of M*A*S*H, with a literal ending of the story.)

 

[SimpleLogic]

I never did finish the series though I got to Gods Above, I think. I remember it getting a bit outlandish and it didn't help that I thought Before Dishonor was really bad. But if there was some loose ends to the New Frontier it would be nice to have them sewn up.

 

[Defcon]

Margaret Clark has confirmed in an interview that she and PAD are talking at the moment, but that nothing has been signed yet (It's pretty close to the end of the interview; I actually haven't listened to the whole interview yet, but was randomly jumping around in it to get a feel what they are talking about and landed at the mention of Peter David on my last jump ) .

http://www.visionarytrek.com/visionary-trek-presents-the-captains-table-margaret-clark/

 

[Paris]

Nice . I hope this works out!

 

[DimesDan]

Margaret Clark has confirmed in an interview that she and PAD are talking at the moment, but that nothing has been signed yet (It's pretty close to the end of the interview; I actually haven't listened to the whole interview yet, but was randomly jumping around in it to get a feel what they are talking about and landed at the mention of Peter David on my last jump ) .

http://www.visionarytrek.com/visionary-trek-presents-the-captains-table-margaret-clark/

Sounds like what I said a few weeks ago then on the matter:

I would think that he has an idea for a story, maybe a finale for the series and he is working on the proposal for the story or either, he's been asked to sort a proposal for submission as they'll consider commissioning something if they like the idea.

Either way, it's not exactly something to get massively excited about as it may not pan out.

 

[JD]

Margaret Clark has confirmed in an interview that she and PAD are talking at the moment, but that nothing has been signed yet (It's pretty close to the end of the interview; I actually haven't listened to the whole interview yet, but was randomly jumping around in it to get a feel what they are talking about and landed at the mention of Peter David on my last jump ) .

http://www.visionarytrek.com/visionary-trek-presents-the-captains-table-margaret-clark/

Cool. I wonder if this will be the last.