Plagues of Night - newest DS9 novel

[Jarvisimo]

Dear all, just to remind Niners that the newest DS9 novel (though under the Typhon Pact banner) is out - David R. George III's Plagues of Night.

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It is an excellent book, very well-written, which may help to overturn any of the bitter taste Niners might feel about Rough Beasts of Empire. Kira, Sisko and Kassidy get the most 'screentime' from the DS9 stable, with the Dominion, Quark, Bashir (& Sarina Douglas) and Martok having nice scenes too. From outwith DS9, Spock, Picard and Ro Laren also are foci in the story.

In addition, it rather succesfully complifies and makes more diverse the current geo-political situation of both the AQ and the GQ. In this sense, it carries on the good work of DS9 too.

 

[Jono]

There's a review thread in Trek lit on the novel. Be warned, spoilers are pretty openly displayed without warning in the latter pages of the thread.

As for whether it will appease (some) Niners...I'm not too sure.

 

[Jarvisimo]

There's a review thread in Trek lit on the novel. Be warned, spoilers are pretty openly displayed without warning in the latter pages of the thread.

As for whether it will appease (some) Niners...I'm not too sure.

Thanks Jono for cross-linking, though I thought to avoid doing so because of the spoilers - and also because many of the early pages are the same old (unhelpful) discussions of Rough Beasts.

 

[DS9forever]

This is the first novel where we meet a lot of the new DS9 crew for the first time. They're actually all quite interesting, especially Jeff Blackmer, the new security chief.

 

[Unicron]

Why does the Defiant look like it's going to ram the Enterprise? Sisko decided he didn't forgive Picard after all?

 

[DS9forever]

The Galaxy-class starship is actually the Robinson, Sisko's new command.

 

[T'Girl]

Shouldn't this be in (as in transferred to) the Trek Literature forum?

The novels are loosely connected to the show, but aren't really part of it. And many of the current novels aren't even set in the same time period.

 

[Jarvisimo]

^ There is no place for it in the Treklit forum - it would be a lesser form of the thread linked above. Instead, I thought people interested in DS9 who were not so (or even at all) aware of Treklit would perhaps be interested in a book with this cover and this story.

And why should something need to be set in the same time period to be relevant to the show's fans?