OT: Christie Golden Part of Next Star Wars 9-Book Series

[Dayton Ward]

^ She's been writing her own stuff for the past few years and continues to do so. She's also a fan of the property, and when they come calling asking to pay you to write for them, you say "Yes." She also wants to get back to Trek at some point, if and when her and Pocket's schedules can line up.

 

[Brendan Moody]

Wasn't the reason we were given for her punting of the Voyager relaunch that she wanted to focus on original fiction?

I don't think so. Golden has been writing original fiction as well as non-Trek tie-ins, but that was never given as the reason for the absence of post-finale Voyager books. (In fact, I don't recall any one reason being given at all, just a general comment that future VOY books were always under discussion.) You may be thinking of Diane Carey.

 

[Marco Palmieri]

Wasn't the reason we were given for her punting of the Voyager relaunch that she wanted to focus on original fiction?

You may be thinking of Diane Carey.

In Christie's case, we wanted her to focus on developing a bunch of Warcraft and StarCraft fiction projects, which Pocket also publishes. In fact, her new Warcraft book, Arthas: Rise of the Lich King, will be out in hardcover next April.

 

[Dayton Ward]

^ I suppose it doesn't hurt that she's a huge Warcraft freak.

 

[Trent Roman]

Unfortunately, the String Theory trilogy is the only multi-book Trek series I haven't felt compelled to finish.

What does that have to do with Christie Golden? The authors of String Theory were Jeffrey Lang, Kirsten Beyer and Heather Jarman. (I liked the first two books myself, but the third was too scattershot - sorry, Heather).

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Marco Palmieri]

I suppose it doesn't hurt that she's a huge Warcraft freak.

That's putting it mildly.

But it runs in both directions: The folks at Blizzard love Christie's work on the fiction.

 

[Lindley]

Unfortunately, the String Theory trilogy is the only multi-book Trek series I haven't felt compelled to finish.

What does that have to do with Christie Golden? The authors of String Theory were Jeffrey Lang, Kirsten Beyer and Heather Jarman. (I liked the first two books myself, but the third was too scattershot - sorry, Heather).

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

Oh, really? Eh, bad memory.

 

[DimesDan]

Unfortunately, the String Theory trilogy is the only multi-book Trek series I haven't felt compelled to finish.

And I've never been able to stomach reading any of Ms Golden's work after trying but failing to read both the first Dark Matter book and that original series novel based between The Undiscovered Country and Generations.

 

[ShinRa Actual]

Was the Thrawn trilogy that good? I have the first one on my shelf. I just finished the Truce at Bakura and oh boy, it stunk.

Despite being the first real peice of star wars fiction, the Thrawn trilogy still stands as the best, I think. The Zahn and X-wing books are the only ones I go back and read on a regular basis.

 

[Johnhead99]

Unfortunately, the String Theory trilogy is the only multi-book Trek series I haven't felt compelled to finish.

Golden didn't write any of these. I do agree though that that series was tough to get through at times. Book 2, Fusion, was hands down the best of the 3 though.

 

[KRAD]

Despite being the first real peice of star wars fiction, the Thrawn trilogy still stands as the best, I think.

I think Alan Dean Foster may take issue with the first part of that sentence.

 

[Stevil2001]

^ As would all the writers of the Marvel Comics!

 

[Steve Roby]

Despite being the first real peice of star wars fiction, the Thrawn trilogy still stands as the best, I think. The Zahn and X-wing books are the only ones I go back and read on a regular basis.

Like KRAD said: Splinter of the Mind's Eye beat Zahn to the punch by over a decade. SW fans probably tend to ignore Brian Daley's Han Solo trilogy and L. Neil Smith's Lando Calrissian trilogy, but IIRC Foster's book had more Lucas involvement and approval than they had.

As for Zahn's books, while I was a fan of his short fiction in Analog in the 1980s, I found his novels a bit of a slog to get through. I read two or three of his original novels and found the prose a bit clunky, and when Heir to the Empire came out, I had the same problem. Never read the rest of the trilogy or any of his other SW books.

 

[PaulSimpson]

Despite being the first real peice of star wars fiction, the Thrawn trilogy still stands as the best, I think. The Zahn and X-wing books are the only ones I go back and read on a regular basis.

Like KRAD said: Splinter of the Mind's Eye beat Zahn to the punch by over a decade. SW fans probably tend to ignore Brian Daley's Han Solo trilogy and L. Neil Smith's Lando Calrissian trilogy, but IIRC Foster's book had more Lucas involvement and approval than they had.

As for Zahn's books, while I was a fan of his short fiction in Analog in the 1980s, I found his novels a bit of a slog to get through. I read two or three of his original novels and found the prose a bit clunky, and when Heir to the Empire came out, I had the same problem. Never read the rest of the trilogy or any of his other SW books.

Wasn't Splinter of the Mind's Eye actually proposed as the sequel to the original film, then Lucas realised that they needed a bigger story, hence we got Empire?

 

[JD]

Pretty much yeah. According to what I read, they came up with Splinter of the Mind's Eye as a cheap sequel if the first one didn't do well in theaters.

 

[PaulSimpson]

Pretty much yeah. According to what I read, they came up with Splinter of the Mind's Eye as a cheap sequel if the first one didn't do well in theaters.

There's always been something slightly odd about that - why would an undistinguished scifi movie get a sequel *unless* it had done well...?

 

[Dayton Ward]

^ Paul, meet Uwe Boll. Uwe, meet Paul. He'd like to talk to you about the weirdness that is modern day film making and distribution and how neither has any actual ties to logic or common sense.

Oh, and when you're done, Paul W.S. Anderson is holding on line 2.

 

[PaulSimpson]

^ Paul, meet Uwe Boll. Uwe, meet Paul. He'd like to talk to you about the weirdness that is modern day film making and distribution and how neither has any actual ties to logic or common sense.

Oh, and when you're done, Paul W.S. Anderson is holding on line 2.

Yes but this was in the good old sensible days of the 1970s - before your time, of course!!

 

[David Mack]

Yes but this was in the good old sensible days of the 1970s - before your time, of course!!

The '70s were "sensible"? Are you kidding me? Wasn't that the era of bell-bottom jeans, tie-dye, Watergate, Vietnam, Blaxploitation movies, Three's Company, Donny & Marie, the pardoning of Nixon, and the heyday of disco?

 

[PaulSimpson]

Yes but this was in the good old sensible days of the 1970s - before your time, of course!!

The '70s were "sensible"? Are you kidding me? Wasn't that the era of bell-bottom jeans, tie-dye, Watergate, Vietnam, Blaxploitation movies, Three's Company, Donny & Marie, the pardoning of Nixon, and the heyday of disco?

Jealousy of not being able to join in all those things will get you nowhere, sir!