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Official Fearfull Symmetry blurb (Warpath spoilers)

Err, the 2009 schedule's only been announced through May. That's only the first 1/3 of the year, since technically a publishing year is February through January. So it's way, way premature to assume there won't be DS9 in 2009. The editors usually wait until Shore Leave to announce the full schedule for the following year.

(EDIT: Oops, Brendan beat me to it.)
 
Personally, I'll be happy as long as we know another book is definitely coming out. I won't really get mad until we start pushing the 5-10 year mark.

Yeah, but with no Relaunch on the 2009 list thus far, we're possibly looking at 2010? That's a potential two year gap again. :(

In fact, no Ds9 at all, save for possibly having some tie-in to A Singular Destiny for 2009 so far. Sadness.
Less than half of the 2009 schedule is out so far. There's no reason at all to assume the remaining seven months won't see a new DS9 book, especially since a year (minimum) between installments is pretty standard and Fearful Symmetry is a July 2008 book. Give it time; I'm sure there'll be new DS9 in 2009.

Actually, with the relaunch font in use for it (and S.D. Perry co-writing two installments), Terok Nor really feels like a series of relaunch flashback installments (which brings us up to a nice four DS9 relaunch books this year, just like the first two years of the series). :cool:
 
Why is a publishers year Feb-Jan?
My guess is it's related to the fact that books for a particular month tend to appear on shelves in the latter half of the previous month. So technically, the releases are February's to January's, but they come out January-December. But, I'm not associated with a publisher, so I can't say for sure.
 
Yeah, but with no Relaunch on the 2009 list thus far, we're possibly looking at 2010? That's a potential two year gap again. :(

In fact, no Ds9 at all, save for possibly having some tie-in to A Singular Destiny for 2009 so far. Sadness.
Less than half of the 2009 schedule is out so far. There's no reason at all to assume the remaining seven months won't see a new DS9 book, especially since a year (minimum) between installments is pretty standard and Fearful Symmetry is a July 2008 book. Give it time; I'm sure there'll be new DS9 in 2009.

Actually, with the relaunch font in use for it (and S.D. Perry co-writing two installments), Terok Nor really feels like a series of relaunch flashback installments (which brings us up to a nice four DS9 relaunch books this year, just like the first two years of the series). :cool:
It's also been using some plot threads from the Relaunch, in the first book at least.
Namely the Oralian/Bajoran relationship
 
^ I noticed that. Did Andrew J. Robinson create the former, or was it mentioned on the series?
 
I don't know if he created it, but he was the first to use it in A Stich in Time.
 
Andrew Robinson created The Oralian Way, but the Hebitian civilization was first mentioned in "Chain of Command, Part Two."
 
Presumably. I haven't seen that two-parter in ages. I know the Hebitian civilization was first mentioned then because the appendices for Day of the Vipers mentions it. ;)
 
I think it might have been Picard who mentions the First Hebitian civilisation...

*checks*

Yep, t'was.
 
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I haven't seen the episode in some time but I remember a conversation about how the Cardassian museums used to have a lot of ancient artifacts but they have been sold to support the military or something along those lines. I don't specifically remember the mention of the First Hebitian civilization, that's not the kind of thing I'm going to remember, but that's got to be where it's mentioned.

I'm only 100 pages into Day of the Vipers but I'm enjoying it so far. It's a tragedy of course. I know it doesn't end well for a lot of the people involved. I'm also remembering a lot of the snippets of background info mentioned in the show and I keep thinking "I wonder if that's coming up".
 
I've been very impressed with Day of the Vipers so far. I've been reading in short pieces (ten minutes or so), so I'm only about a hundred pages in, but this book has done the amazing: it's made me care about Bajor and find it interesting. I'm worried terribly for the constable and his family, as I can't help but expect their story to turn far worse.
 
Well, I just went back to S&S to see if anything else has been updated, and the "backcover"* text I posted is now gone, I don't know what this means, but I thought it might be worth mentioning here.

*Since FS is a flipbook with two cover pictures, it technically doesn't have back cover text.
 
I have to agree w/ everyone on one thing, I'm going to need another bookcase myself soon. I have most of the top shelve filled w/ most of my collection, then the second is mixed w/ various magazines and the old encyclopedia, scotty's guide and the hardcover as well as the tpb's on it. I pretty much stacked my books on top of each other like used book stores do for the first shelve.

But I'm for one can't wait til a new DS9 novel comes out.
 
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