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Resistance Now In Print

I'm seriously tempted to see where my Dad is on business at the moment and if he's in America to get him or my Step Mom to pick it up and then post it down from Glasgow.

I'm so excited about this book and all the comments people have made are making me anticipate it even more.
 
I've started reading Resistance and it has a completely different feel to it then any other TNG book I've read so far. I'm about 1/2 done.
 
You can yet it in the UK through the private sellers on Amazon UK as soon as its out in the US. Mine arrived yesterday (stupid bank holidays).
 
I generally buy several books at once and get free shipping. So, I'm either getting Resistance at the local comic shop or waiting till Amazon UK has a better delivery time and getting it alongside Quiller Memorandum, Kyle XY: Nowhere to Run and The Dark Is Rising.
 
Christopher said:
Strictly speaking, you never need to read book X in order to "understand" book Y, unless they're parts of a duology or trilogy. It's not like we deliberately write these things to be confusing.

THat used to be true, but I don't know about that anymore. Especially when it comes to the various recent relaunch novels, you might understand most of what's going on just jumping in and reading a random book, but you'll be lost when it comes to a lot of things. Many new characters and back-stories, all the Andorian stuff in the DS9 books, etc.
 
You might need a little time to catch up, and you might miss a few nuances, but you won't be "lost" if you keep at it and pay attention. At the very least, you'll be given enough information to understand the role those new characters and elements play within the book you're reading, even if certain broader contextual elements are still unclear to you.

I mean, if you're reading a standalone book, one that isn't part of a series, then all the characters and backstories will be new to you, and you just have to pick them up as you go. And by the end of the book, there will still be plenty you don't know about the characters' backgrounds or the aliens' culture or whatever, but you will have picked up enough over the course of the book to understand the events within that book.

That's what I mean when I say you don't need to read prior books to understand a given book. You may not know all there is to know about the stuff that came before, but as you say, you'll be able to understand the essentials of what's going on in the book you're currently reading.
 
FordSVT said:
but you'll be lost when it comes to a lot of things. Many new characters and back-stories, all the Andorian stuff in the DS9 books, etc.

The authors do recaps of all important information. Have trust!
 
I gave up waiting for my local comic shop to get it in (not in today, thus won't be avaliable till next week and I'm back at work on Monday so not going to the store for the forseable future) and ordered it from a seller on Amazon along with the Kyle XY novel.
 
Huh, I didn't realize they were already doing a novel.

Edit: I was just looking around on Amazon, and Resistance is #20 on their scif bestsellers list.
 
JD said:
Huh, I didn't realize they were already doing a novel.

Edit: I was just looking around on Amazon, and Resistance is #20 on their scif bestsellers list.

They just started a Supernatural line as well with KRAD writing the first novel.
 
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