Pick the best book from each series

[Kopernikus]

TOS: Crucible: McCoy - The Provenance of Shadows (My All-Time-Favourite)
Vanguard: Reap the Whirlwind (Makes no sense without the first two of the series)
TNG: A Time for War, A Time for Peace (The entire A Time to - series is recommendable)
DS9: Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers (Could also be considered Lost Era)
Voyager: Full Circle (You can skip the first VOY-Relaunch-books, this one sums them up sufficiently)
ENT: What Price Honor (Since you asked for one out of each series, this one at least made it to upper middle-class, in honest, ignore ENT, none of the novels ever excited me... )
Titan: Orion's Hounds
New Frontier: Stone and Anvil (Entire NF-series is good, just start at the beginning and work your all through it)
Corps of Engineers: Wildfire (Not sure if it makes any sense to read this one, if you're not familiar with the series, if you are, it's damm good)
The Lost Era: The Art of the Impossible (The first two in the series, the Sundered and Serpents among the Ruins are also highly recommendable)
Klingon Empire: Honor Bound (Continuation of Book 1, A Good Day to Die, makes no sense to read just one and both are good)
Others: Articles of the Federation
Stargazer: Haven't read any of it so far
Mini-series: Destiny

 

[Warp Coil]

TNG: Vendetta (I also rate Imzadi and Q-Squared highly)
DS9: Mission: Gamma - Cathedral (I also really love Unity and Warpath)
Titan: Taking Wing
Lost Era: Serpent Among the Ruins (The Sundered and The Art of the Impossible are also great)
Crossover/Miniseries: Destiny

I don't really read the other series on any regular basis.

 

[David Mack]

My thanks to everyone who has listed my books among their favorites!

 

[Sisko Lives!]

ENT - The Good That Men Do
TOS - Errand of Vengeance Trilogy
TNG - Before Dishonor (No, I'm not joking)
DS9 - Abyss
VOY - Full Circle
VAN - Reap the Whirlwind
Other -- Klingon Empire
MU - Sorrows of Empire

 

[LightningStorm]

ENT: The Good That Men Do
TNG Pre-relaunch: A Time to Kill/Heal duology
TNG Relaunch: Losing the Peace
DS9 Pre-relaunch: Fallen Heroes
DS9 Relaunch: Warpath
VOY Pre-relaunch: Echoes
VOY Relaunch: Full Circle
Vanguard: Reap the Whirlwind
Titan: Orion's Hounds
Other: Articles of the Federation
Myriad Universes: Tie between Places of Exile and Brave New World
Mirror Universe: Sorrows of Empire
Anthology: Tales of the Dominion War

 

[Cicero]

Of the series I've read books from:

VAN: Reap the Whirlwind
TOS: The Kobayashi Maru
The Lost Era: Serpents Among the Ruins
TNG: A Time To Heal
DS9: A Stitch In Time
SCE: Wildfire
Aventine/Titan: Gods of Night (technically not of either series, but the Aventine and Titan parts were what I liked best)

The only Enterprise novel I've read was The Good That Men Do.

My thanks to everyone who has listed my books among their favorites!

You're one of very few authors whose books I always buy, no matter the description (so long as they aren't urban fantasy, which I seem incapable of enjoying outside of Treasure Box and Harry Potter).* They can almost uniformly be counted on.

*Apparently Charlotte's Web and Watership Down are considered urban fantasy. In that case, I should specify that it's urban magic that I dislike, not talking animals.

 

[Thrawn]

Only ones I've read enough to have an opinion:

TOS: Ex Machina
TNG: Vendetta / Imzadi / Q-Squared, or Destiny if that's allowed
DS9: I think the relaunch is far greater than the sum of its parts, but if I have to pick one in particular, the Avatar duology
VOY: Full Circle
NF: Once Burned / Stone & Anvil
GKN/KE: A Burning House (clearly)
Titan: Over A Torrent Sea, or Destiny if that's allowed
Mirror Universe: The Sorrows Of Empire (probably even moreso with the coming expansion)
Lost Era: The Buried Age (though I haven't read Terok Nor yet)
Vanguard: Reap The Whirlwind
Best miniseries: Destiny

 

[Steve Roby]

Please pardon the digression:

You're one of very few authors whose books I always buy, no matter the description (so long as they aren't urban fantasy, which I seem incapable of enjoying outside of Treasure Box and Harry Potter).*

*Apparently Charlotte's Web and Watership Down are considered urban fantasy. In that case, I should specify that it's urban magic that I dislike, not talking animals.

I have no idea what Treasure Box is, but nothing else you've mentioned is considered urban fantasy. The urban in urban fantasy is there for a reason: it's because this is fantasy that takes place in what is, for the most part, recognizably familiar modern cities. The clash between the modern urban world and the world of magic is the point. The books that are generally considered to have kicked off the urban fantasy subgenre back in the 1980s are War for the Oaks, written by Emma Bull and set in Chicago, and several of Charles de Lint's novels, the earlier ones being set right here in Ottawa. The term's meaning has shifted somewhat, as it now seems to imply kickass Buffy-style heroines and some romantic elements; if you're interested, track down the May 2009 issue of Locus.

 

[Mistral]

TOS- The Final Reflection/Strangers in the Sky/The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh-all three books were cool. If I had to choose #1-The Final Reflection.

I haven't read any relaunch books, fyi. I do own over 60 TOS novels, though. I have a case of TNG novels, literally. A big case.

DS9-A Stitch In Time

Voyager - the two Homecoming books were good reads, IMO

SCE-Just read them all-the worst are good and they go up from there

any Mirror Universe book is at least good if not great(and all contain at least one great story)

New Frontier-No Limits

I haven't read enough of any other series to offer an opinion-although the 5-6 TNG books I read were all hack crap, just my luck. But I haven't touched the Gateway or A Time... series as of yet.

I almost forgot-find and read any copies of Strange New Worlds you can. I used to pull them out of the boxes at Borders b4 their release date and read them on break when i worked there-that's how much fun they are.(Come to think of it, that's how I got started on Wildfire, too-had to wait 4 days to buy my copy.)

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I have no idea what Treasure Box is, but nothing else you've mentioned is considered urban fantasy.

The Treasure Box that springs immediately to mind is Orson Scott Card's supernatural thriller. He wrote a few of those -- I found Lost Boys particularly memorable, as the final chapter was emotionally gutwrenching -- but I don't recall Treasure Box fondly because of the incest. (Okay, it's not really incest. It's a succubus who just happens to have taken the form of the protagonist's dead sister.) Treasure Box was contemporaneous with the time it was published; I recall the main character watching The X-Files at one point.

 

[TerriO]

VOY: Since you asked for novels: String Theory: Cohesion by Jeffrey Lang (The best Voyager story overall is the short story Eighteen Minutes by Terri Osborne, though IMO))

Thank you, Defcon.

New Frontier-No Limits

I'm not going to ask if there's a specific from No Limits, because it's always Mack's story (and well-deserved, I might add). I'll just enjoy the fact that you named a book I'm in. Thank you.

 

[Cicero]

Please pardon the digression:

You're one of very few authors whose books I always buy, no matter the description (so long as they aren't urban fantasy, which I seem incapable of enjoying outside of Treasure Box and Harry Potter).*

*Apparently Charlotte's Web and Watership Down are considered urban fantasy. In that case, I should specify that it's urban magic that I dislike, not talking animals.

I have no idea what Treasure Box is, but nothing else you've mentioned is considered urban fantasy. The urban in urban fantasy is there for a reason: it's because this is fantasy that takes place in what is, for the most part, recognizably familiar modern cities. The clash between the modern urban world and the world of magic is the point.

That's what I'd thought, but an article I came across while checking the definition seemed to suggest that Charlotte's Web and Watership Down - and The Wind in the Willows, another of my favorite books - are considered urban fantasy. (I think the site was called Fantasy Book Review.) I'm glad to see the definition was what I'd previously thought.

Does Locus print science fiction and fantasy, or only articles about the genre?

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

ENT: The Good That Men Do
TOS: Shadows on the Sun
TNG Pre-Nemesis: Q-Squared
TNG Post-Nemesis: Greater than the Sum
DS9 Pre-Finale: Fallen Heroes
DS9 Post-Finale: Mission Gamma: Twilight (I've only read as far as the last Mission Gamma)
VOY Pre-Finale: Echoes
VOY Post-Finale: Homecoming (haven't read Full Circle yet)
Titan: Orion's Hounds (haven't read OaTS yet)
Vanguard: Harbinger (only read the first two so far)
The Lost Era: Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers (Serpents Among the Ruins comes in a close 2nd)
SCE: Interphase (only read the first two collections so far)
GKN/KE: A Burning House
NF: Martyr (haven't read any in several years, and I can't remember which ones I read after Martyr)
Stargazer: Valiant (it's labeled as TNG but it's actually a Stargazer novel and the only other one I've read is Gauntlet)
MU: The Mirror-Scaled Serpent (haven't read the first or third collections)
Crossovers: Destiny
Other: A Singular Destiny

 

[Steve Roby]

Does Locus print science fiction and fantasy, or only articles about the genre?

Locus is the monthly newsmagazine of the SF book and magazine publishing biz. News, interviews, reviews, lists of books received and forthcoming books, occasional big features like the one on urban fantasy (they've also done, IIRC, features on the new space opera and the new weird), and more. They don't publish fiction, but if you're interested in written as opposed to filmed SF, it's an invaluable resource.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Lost Era: The Art of the Impossible (unless Day of the Vipers counts, sorry, Keith)

DAMN YOU, SWALLOW! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, look on the bright side, I named Tales of the Dominon War as my favorite anthology.

 

[Jono]

DS9: Rising Son
TLE: Serpents Among the Ruins

 

[KRAD]

Thanks everyone who named my stuff in their lists. (Okay, it was a stacked deck for the GKN/KE books, but still....)

 

[donners22]

TOS: Prime Directive (Judith & Gar Reeves-Stevens)
TNG: Q-Squared (Peter David)
DS9: A Stitch in Time (Andrew J Robinson)
Voy: Echoes (DW Smith, KK Rusch & NK Hoffman)
Ent: The Good That Men Do (Mangels & Martin)
NF: Excalibur: Restoration (Peter David)

Sorry, I don't have my books with me and I think I've misspelt one Voyager author and missed another.

 

[apenpaap]

TOS: Only read the novelization of The Search for Spock, but it was great.
DS9: Unity (But I haven't read the relaunch after it yet)
ENT: The Good that men do
Myriad Universes: Places of Exile
Mirror Universe: The Sorrows of Empire

 

[Mr. Crane]

TOS - The graphic novels collecting up the story arc by Peter David from
"The Return" to "The Trial of James T. Kirk", set in the post ST V
era, originally published by DC Comics.

- TOS Novels: Tie between Strangers from the Sky, The Rihannsu
novels of Diane Duane, and John Ford's The Final Reflection

TNG - The Buried Age (Picard backstory)
The Lost Era - Tie between Serpent Among the Ruins and Art of the
Impossible - both awesome "history" tales!)
NF - Stone & Anvil
DS9 - haven't read this series (didn't really watch the show)
VOY - haven't read this series (didn't really watch the show)
ENT - Kobyashi Maru

Haven't read any of the Titan, Vanguard, or Core of Engineers. Have read some of the Stargazer novels...