FYI: The book that is relaunching TNG is now available for purchase at your fine retailer.
Resistance Now In Print
- Thread starter Man of Steel
- Start date
You've seen it then?
And would Death in Winter be more properly consider the 'relaunching' point, or do we exclude that on the basis that it was made to fit in before the last scene of NEM?
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
And would Death in Winter be more properly consider the 'relaunching' point, or do we exclude that on the basis that it was made to fit in before the last scene of NEM?
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Seen It?
It's sitting on my dresser.
I've been to the store twice in the last four days and did not see it at all. I figured it had to be out any day now.
I find myself really split on whether I should even buy Death in Winter, especially if it doesn't really have that much of a bearing on the TNG-R. I heard it was quite blah.
I find myself really split on whether I should even buy Death in Winter, especially if it doesn't really have that much of a bearing on the TNG-R. I heard it was quite blah.
Not from me you didn't. 
Has anyone seen the e-book version? Anywhere?
Sxottlan said:
Is there anything you don't like?
You bet! I hated "DS9: Warped", especially having paid hardcover price and buying the audio novel to go with it. I was very unimpressed with "Triangle", "Mutiny on the Enterprise", "Chain of Attack" (despite liking Gene DeWeese's first TNG novel), its sequel "The Final Nexus", "Timetrap", "Garth of Izar", "TNG: Genesis Wave, Book 3", much of "TNG: Genesis Force", and the "DS9: Rebels" trilogy. Also many early VOY novels.
I detested "TNG: Into the Nebula" and "DS9: The Laertian Gamble".
Great, the Death in Winter - Reprint is also available, so let the games begin!
This is gonne become an interesting fall
I'd say DiW is more of a transitional novel, bridging the gap between A Time To... and the relaunch. Resistance is definitely the beginning of a new phase in TNG fiction, because it starts the E-E on a new mission with a number of new crewmembers and initiates some storylines that are continued in subsequent installments.
Er, that may certainly be true, but there's at least one thing in the first couple of pages that will make anyone who didn't read Death in Winter wonder what the hell is going on...!!
Paul
Good news. I'll keep an eye out for it the next time I'm at Barnes & Noble.
As for Death in Winter, I found it very enjoyable, although it wasn't quite what I had expected. I wish the two main guest characters (who know I'm talking about) had more to do in the story.
As for Death in Winter, I found it very enjoyable, although it wasn't quite what I had expected. I wish the two main guest characters (who know I'm talking about) had more to do in the story.
Given that Death in Winter pushes the remaining TNG characters aside in order to cram in the authors own characters, id hardly call it the first book in the TNG relaunch.
More like a Stargazer relaunch.
I'm sorry, but I couldn't disagree more. It's driven by major changes to at least two of the central TNG characters! And for once, there's no reset button at the end!
Paul
The entire novel is practically a reset button...
the fact that it got Crusher back out of Starfleet Medical for the second time and back with Picard on the Enterprise.
Nemesis, in spite of its flaws, was about change. Death in Winter negated some of the best changes and substituted fannish changes in the place of actual dramatic changes.
Rob+
I didn't mean to say that DiW wasn't significant to the overall continuity, just that it's more a transitional piece than a full-on first installment of the TNG Relaunch. Maybe it would best be called a prologue.
As the book starts to be read over the next week or so, could someone spoil for me who the first officer of the Enterprise is by the end of the novel. (I'll not be able to get to the bookstore for at least a week, and whether Worf is the long-term first officer may have some bearing on my purchasing this and later TNG relaunch books.)
martin madden
*runs*
*runs*
