Off-topic question, but a new novel gives me the excuse I've long needed...here it is: is there an agreed-upon "best" order in which to read the myriad Star Trek novels? Who would maintain such a list, and where? I really want to know. Any help would be totally appreciated.
Star Trek: Indistinguishable From Magic in spring 2011
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It generally doesn't matter. Within a given subseries -- say, one of the titled book-only series or miniseries or the post-finale continuations of the TV series, or earlier on, the linked books by a single author such as Diane Duane or J. M. Dillard -- it's generally best to read them in publication order. But beyond that, it's rarely an issue. The majority of Trek books over the decades have been standalones. And in the modern, more closely interlinked continuity, each series or subseries is still pretty much meant to stand on its own, and the reading order doesn't matter unless you're intensely spoilerphobic. As a rule, though, you can't go wrong with publication order.
Oh, speaking of which - how long did it end up being?
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Cool. I dunno why it took me so long to realize it, but after I did it was just so obvious.
Good choice BTW.
Maybe the bay was damaged in the war, and was stripped out and replaced with the lounge.
Currently it clocks in at 135,000 words - not *quite* as long as two of the old numbered books, but only about 25k words short of that...
About 3000 words longer than The Buried Age then.
That's an interesting name for a lounge. Run by Nelson too I hope.
Guinan might object...
Though it is, to my mind, named after *that* Nelson, and not the Nelson whom the characters say it's named after...
No.
Famed astronaut Maj. Tony Nelson?
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Aaron McGuire
Wish I'd thought of him...
In the book it's obviously named after Admiral Lord Nelson, but in my head it's named after Nelson, the barman of The Railway Arms in Life On Mars.
Sweet. That's as long as Full Circle; pretty heavy for a Trek novel. Always good to hear.
The copyedit manuscript for Indistinguishable From Magic has arrived, and it's fucking *huge* - 578 pages! Bloody hell, I didn't think it was that big...
amazon UK's saying May for the release of this...
the official UK date's usually a few weeks later, isn't it?
AFAIK in the US its listed for April, actually shipping on March 29th.
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