StarTrek.com Reveals Full 2015 Star Trek Book Schedule

[JD]

The official Star Trek Website has revealed the full 2015 book schedule, including several new titles we hadn't heard about before, including 3 New Frontier: The Return e-novellas, and a new TOS book by Greg Cox, Child of Two Worlds. We also now have release months for Titan: Sight Unseen and the fourth untitled Seekers novel. All of these are published by Pocket Books unless noted otherwise


January:
DS9:The Missing by Una McCormack (novel)

Febuary:
TNG: Takedown by John Jackson Miller (novel)

March:
TOS: Savage Trade by Tony Daniel (novel) & TOS: Shadow of the Machine by Scott Harrison (e-novella)

April:
ENT: Rise of the Federation: Uncertain Logic by Christopher L. Bennett (novel)

May:
TOS: Crisis of Consciousness by Dave Galanter (novel)

June:
TNG: Armageddon's Arrow by Dayton Ward (novel)

July:
DS9: Sacraments of Fire by David R. George III (novel) & NF: Return #1 by Peter David (e-novella)

August:
Seekers (Skrs? Sks?): Long Shot by David Mack (novel) & NF: Return #2 by Peter David (e-novella)

September:
VOY: Atonement by (NYTBS)Kirsten (MF) Beyer (novel) & NF: Return #3 by Peter David (e-novella)

October:
TTN: Sight Unseen by James Swallow (novel)

November:
Seekers: Untitled by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore (novel)

December:
TOS: Child of Two Worlds by Greg Cox (novel)

Fall:
The Autobiography of James T Kirk by David Goodman, published by Titan Books & Star Trek: Dressing the Final Frontier (the article doesn't include authors but according to 8of5's website it's written by Paula M. Block and Terry J. Erdman), published by Insight Editions.

Looks like a great line up to me. I'm especially excited for pretty much all of the 24th Century stuff, although I'm only the second Cold Equations book so it'll be a while before I get to any of them. I wasn't that anxious for more NF, but I am curious to read the new novellas.

 

[Worf2DS9]

I haven't read a whole lot of Trek in recent years, but I am looking forward to the new NF e-novellas starting in July. That should give me enough time to finally get around to reading "Blind Man's Bluff."

 

[Defcon]

Just for the sake of completness, here's the link to the article: http://www.startrek.com/article/preview-star-trek-books-coming-in-2015

So the three book deal for Peter David/NF (someone mentioned that on his website a couple of month ago IIRC) is actually for three eBook novellas? I'm kind of disappointed now.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Thanks, JD.

January:
DS9:The Missing by Una McCormack (novel)

Already read it; a very strong book, and a welcome return to low-key stories that still move the meta-arc forward.

Febuary:
TNG: Takedown by John Jackson Miller (novel)

I'll be interested in seeing how Miller handles a full-length Trek novel. Absent Enemies was interesting but flawed, but Miller is, so far as I'm aware, held in high regard for his Star Wars books, so I'm eager to see what he does here.

March:
TOS: Savage Trade by Tony Daniel (novel) & TOS: Shadow of the Machine by Scott Harrison (e-novella)

TOS stories are my least favourites, but I'm a completist.

April:
ENT: Rise of the Federation: Uncertain Logic by Christopher L. Bennett (novel)

I always eagerly await a Bennett book. He writes Vulcans very well, so this should be great. The Rise of the Federation series has so far lived up to its promise.

May:
TOS: Crisis of Consciousness by Dave Galanter (novel)

Nothing much to say here.

June:
TNG: Armageddon's Arrow by Dayton Ward (novel)

Ward (and the joined being WarDilmore) is a great writer when his books fall in the right place in an unfolding story or story arc (see: A Time to Sow/Harvest, the Vanguard series, Paths of Disharmony) but often a bit disappointing when concluding (see: Seekers II, Peaceable Kingdoms). Hopefully this, like his other standalone From History's Shadow, will play to his strengths. I look forward to seeing where Picard's Enterprise goes from here.

July:
DS9: Sacraments of Fire by David R. George III (novel) & NF: Return #1 by Peter David (e-novella)

Is this, at last, taking us toward the Ascendants tale (which it seemed, based on a certain Jem'Hadar's recent appearance, had timey-wimey properties and might be tied directly into what's happening now?) And is this, at last, Calhoun's big finish? Peter David deserves the opportunity to finish New Frontier in style.

August:
Seekers (Skrs? Sks?): Long Shot by David Mack (novel) & NF: Return #2 by Peter David (e-novella)

The first Seekers book was great, the second average. Let's see how it goes from here.

September:
VOY: Atonement by (NYTBS)Kirsten (MF) Beyer (novel) & NF: Return #3 by Peter David (e-novella)

I am very much looking forward to seeing Janeway, as written by an author with a proven record of handling her well, defend her controversial actions (and the writers' decisions ) before the Delta Quadrant. Based on previous Beyer books, this should be great. Here's anticipating that this is the ultimate defence/dissection of Voyager.

October:
TTN: Sight Unseen by James Swallow (novel)

Titan and Swallow: a proven combination. Looking forward to this!

November:
Seekers: Untitled by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore (novel)

WarDilmore and Seekers: in both cases, mixed expectations, but reason to be optimistic.

December:
TOS: Child of Two Worlds by Greg Cox (novel).

I've quite enjoyed Cox's TOS books, for all that I'm not a TOS standalone sort of person. He has a unique approach and style that's sometimes a breath of fresh air.

In all, I agree: a good, strong lineup.

 

[JD]

Just for the sake of completness, here's the link to the article: http://www.startrek.com/article/preview-star-trek-books-coming-in-2015

So the three book deal for Peter David/NF (someone mentioned that on his website a couple of month ago IIRC) is actually for three eBook novellas? I'm kind of disappointed now.

Thanks, I can't believe I forgot a link.

 

[Masiral]

Febuary:
TNG: Takedown by John Jackson Miller (novel)

I'll be interested in seeing how Miller handles a full-length Trek novel. Absent Enemies was interesting but flawed, but Miller is, so far as I'm aware, held in high regard for his Star Wars books, so I'm eager to see what he does here.

More for his SW graphic novels than his full-length novels, but I've found all his SW work to be excellent. I haven't read Absent Enemies yet, but I'm excited to see what he does with ST.

 

[ryan123450]

A really solid lineup. Maybe the most promising in several years. TrekLit is still going strong!

 

[Wadjda]

I haven't read a whole lot of Trek in recent years, but I am looking forward to the new NF e-novellas starting in July. That should give me enough time to finally get around to reading "Blind Man's Bluff."

That will wrap up the series?

Any of the books above focus on minor characters?

 

[Reanok]

There's going to be alot of interesting books coming out this year. I'm eagerly looking forward to getting the new Ds9 novels and the new Enterprise novel Uncertain logic. I'm really interested in Greg Cox's novel Child of two worlds. I've always enjoyed reading his novels.I look forward to getting all other new books coming out in the next few months. I'm really forward to getting Sacraments of fire and Kirsten Beyer's novel Atonement.

 

[borgboy]

Is there any reliable source claiming the New Frontier novellas are ending the series? I was under the impression the series would be ongoing still.

 

[ATimson]

Hopefully this, like his other standalone From History's Shadow, will play to his strengths.

In the Name of Honor - and arguably much of their SCE work - would like to have a word with you.

 

[RoJoHen]

Here's hoping those NF e-novellas eventually end up printed in an actual book.

 

[borgboy]

I had already pre-ordered the New Frontier novel in print from Amazon via a link from Peter David's website. I'm assuming the book won't actually be in print form anytime soon, but who knows? I'll probably just cancel the order once the pre order links for NF become available. At the least though this suggests that PAD expected the book to be in print. I'm expecting that this print book has been cancelled and will be broken up into three ebooks instead. It does worry me that it seems the publishers don't have much confidence in NF if they can't be bothered to debut it in print.

 

[Idran]

It does worry me that it seems the publishers don't have much confidence in NF if they can't be bothered to debut it in print.

That seems based on the assumption that ebooks are innately worse than print books. Like Christopher said, having regular ebook stuff allows for more slots in the monthly schedule; I see no reason to think it's anything other than that.

 

[Christopher]

Indeed, many would say that e-books are the future of publishing. Just today, I was talking to someone who said he only reads e-books anymore.

 

[DS9forever]

Wasn't DRG III to have a second DS9 novel out in 2015?

 

[Idran]

I don't remember hearing that, I only remember hearing that he was going to have a DS9 book this year.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Bah, nothing can beat actually holding a book in your hands and then hoarding it away in your collection with all the others, taking it down periodically to admire its ever-yellowing pages. Would a dragon hoard virtual gold? Would Kivas Fajo settle for displaying holographic images of rare items? You cannot truly own an e-book. You cannot collect e-books.

If we turn to e-books as the answer, then the trees win. Is that what we want?

 

[Idran]

Bah, nothing can beat actually holding a book in your hands and then hoarding it away in your collection with all the others, taking it down periodically to admire its ever-yellowing pages. Would a dragon hoard virtual gold? Would Kivas Fajo settle for displaying holographic images of rare items? You cannot truly own an e-book. You cannot collect e-books.

If we turn to e-books as the answer, then the trees win. Is that what we want?

The solution is to get one of each!

(And hopefully for novel publishers to start doing what most tabletop RPG publishers have started doing, and offer bundles of both versions at a discounted price in addition to selling each format separately)

 

[Masiral]

(And hopefully for novel publishers to start doing what most tabletop RPG publishers have started doing, and offer bundles of both versions at a discounted price in addition to selling each format separately)

Or follow the Blu-Ray format of including a code for the digital copy with the physical book (likely at a higher price than a standard paperback).