STILL no nuTrek novels?

[DimesDan]

I do think your avatar is highly inappropriate for this forum.

How about we leave things like this up to the mods/admin of the board to decide. You already brought it to our attention, the lack of action should indicate that nothing is wrong with that av. Nor, BTW, is anything wrong with your av which could be argued is more risque than his.

Now I knew full well that my Avatar shouldn't be an issue and if someone had taken the time to complain about it to the mods/admin, I would have been asked to remove it long before yesterday. But thank you anyway.

 

[Yevetha]

The mods said that this is an ok avatar so...

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[LightningStorm]

The mods said that this is an ok avatar so...

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20050719130011/starwars/images/0/0d/Mswc59cover.jpg

Avatar, yes, Hotlink? No.
Converted to normal link.

 

[Mr Silver]

Didn't Christopher say that he and some other writers had been commissioned to write some novels, but Paramount put it on hold?

 

[BrotherBenny]

Didn't Christopher say that he and some other writers had been commissioned to write some novels, but Paramount put it on hold?

CBS put it on hold at the request of Bad Robot, at least unless STXII comes out and the plot is known. the books may then be reworked to fit into the gap between STXI and STXII, or we'll have to wait until STXIII comes out.

 

[Greg Cox]

the books may then be reworked to fit into the gap between STXI and STXII, or we'll have to wait until STXIII comes out.

It should be noted that this is just speculation. I'm not aware of any ongoing plans or discussions regarding those four books . . .

 

[Christopher]

And we weren't just commissioned to write the books. We finished writing them, we got paid for them, we did copyedits (at least I did), there were preliminary covers released online, and then voomp, the rug was pulled out just a few months before publication.

 

[Mr Silver]

And we weren't just commissioned to write the books. We finished writing them, we got paid for them, we did copyedits (at least I did), there were preliminary covers released online, and then voomp, the rug was pulled out just a few months before publication.

That is pretty shocking. It's good that you were paid, but the lack of publication must make it seem like a complete waste of time?

 

[thumbtack]

HIS MUSTACHE IS AN OUTRAGE. OUTRAGE!!!!!

Seriously. I'm now thinking of canceling my subscription.

 

[Christopher]

That is pretty shocking. It's good that you were paid, but the lack of publication must make it seem like a complete waste of time?

Not a complete waste. It's hardly rare for a writer to write something that never gets read by the public. It's uncommon in tie-in fiction, but in original fiction it's more common not to sell a story than it is to sell one. It's often said that a writer's first million words are just practice. I've written a ton of stuff that never saw print.

What made it worthwhile was the experience I gained, and the fun I had doing it. It was intriguing to get to explore this new version of the Trek universe, to write about these familiar characters but in a fresh way, completely free of all the continuity baggage of the Prime universe and with a new style and a new set of ground rules. I enjoyed doing it, so it wasn't a waste of time.

And, as is often the case with unsold stories, maybe I'll get to reuse some of my ideas from it at some point. If the book itself never gets published, maybe I'll get an opportunity to rework parts of it for a later Trek book. Or maybe even an original book, though I'm not sure of the legalities there, since I wrote it under a work-for-hire contract so its ideas are CBS's property, not mine. Maybe if I change the names and details enough, it'd be okay, but I don't know.

I do have one regret, which is that if I'd turned down the Abramsverse book, I would've probably gotten to write the Titan installment of the Typhon Pact series, and I would've liked to return to Titan for a third time. But at least I'm now getting to make some contribution to Typhon Pact.

 

[Greg Cox]

I do have one regret, which is that if I'd turned down the Abramsverse book, I would've probably gotten to write the Titan installment of the Typhon Pact series, and I would've liked to return to Titan for a third time. But at least I'm now getting to make some contribution to Typhon Pact.

In my case, I put Rings of Time on hold to do the nuTrek book first, but Rings is finally coming out in January, so no harm, no foul.

 

[Yevetha]

That is pretty shocking. It's good that you were paid, but the lack of publication must make it seem like a complete waste of time?

Not a complete waste. It's hardly rare for a writer to write something that never gets read by the public. It's uncommon in tie-in fiction, but in original fiction it's more common not to sell a story than it is to sell one. It's often said that a writer's first million words are just practice. I've written a ton of stuff that never saw print.

What made it worthwhile was the experience I gained, and the fun I had doing it. It was intriguing to get to explore this new version of the Trek universe, to write about these familiar characters but in a fresh way, completely free of all the continuity baggage of the Prime universe and with a new style and a new set of ground rules. I enjoyed doing it, so it wasn't a waste of time.

And, as is often the case with unsold stories, maybe I'll get to reuse some of my ideas from it at some point. If the book itself never gets published, maybe I'll get an opportunity to rework parts of it for a later Trek book. Or maybe even an original book, though I'm not sure of the legalities there, since I wrote it under a work-for-hire contract so its ideas are CBS's property, not mine. Maybe if I change the names and details enough, it'd be okay, but I don't know.

I do have one regret, which is that if I'd turned down the Abramsverse book, I would've probably gotten to write the Titan installment of the Typhon Pact series, and I would've liked to return to Titan for a third time. But at least I'm now getting to make some contribution to Typhon Pact.

Lets hope it gets published after ST 2.

Do you have annotations for it too?

 

[sfroth]

I do have one regret, which is that if I'd turned down the Abramsverse book, I would've probably gotten to write the Titan installment of the Typhon Pact series, and I would've liked to return to Titan for a third time. But at least I'm now getting to make some contribution to Typhon Pact.

Seriously? You could have spared us all from Seize the Fire? Now I have to invent time travel just to go back and make you change your mind.

 

[Christopher]

Do you have annotations for it too?

I generally don't do the annotations until shortly before a book comes out, so no.

 

[ronny]

I do have one regret, which is that if I'd turned down the Abramsverse book, I would've probably gotten to write the Titan installment of the Typhon Pact series, and I would've liked to return to Titan for a third time.

That part is unfortunate. To my taste, your style of writing and the Titan novels is a great fit. I hope you get a chance to write some more Titan novels in the future.

 

[JD]

Yes, a hundred times yes.

 

[BrotherBenny]

I agree, your hard science approach is perfect for a series like Titan, or TOS.

 

[Cadet49]

That is pretty shocking. It's good that you were paid, but the lack of publication must make it seem like a complete waste of time?

Not a complete waste. It's hardly rare for a writer to write something that never gets read by the public. It's uncommon in tie-in fiction, but in original fiction it's more common not to sell a story than it is to sell one. It's often said that a writer's first million words are just practice. I've written a ton of stuff that never saw print.

What made it worthwhile was the experience I gained, and the fun I had doing it. It was intriguing to get to explore this new version of the Trek universe, to write about these familiar characters but in a fresh way, completely free of all the continuity baggage of the Prime universe and with a new style and a new set of ground rules. I enjoyed doing it, so it wasn't a waste of time.

And, as is often the case with unsold stories, maybe I'll get to reuse some of my ideas from it at some point. If the book itself never gets published, maybe I'll get an opportunity to rework parts of it for a later Trek book. Or maybe even an original book, though I'm not sure of the legalities there, since I wrote it under a work-for-hire contract so its ideas are CBS's property, not mine. Maybe if I change the names and details enough, it'd be okay, but I don't know.

I do have one regret, which is that if I'd turned down the Abramsverse book, I would've probably gotten to write the Titan installment of the Typhon Pact series, and I would've liked to return to Titan for a third time. But at least I'm now getting to make some contribution to Typhon Pact.

Well, you're "Watching the Clock" novel was absolutely great, so hopefully you'll get a chance to explore more of the Trek temporal universe(s)!

 

[The Wormhole]

That is pretty shocking. It's good that you were paid, but the lack of publication must make it seem like a complete waste of time?

Not a complete waste. It's hardly rare for a writer to write something that never gets read by the public. It's uncommon in tie-in fiction, but in original fiction it's more common not to sell a story than it is to sell one. It's often said that a writer's first million words are just practice. I've written a ton of stuff that never saw print.

What made it worthwhile was the experience I gained, and the fun I had doing it. It was intriguing to get to explore this new version of the Trek universe, to write about these familiar characters but in a fresh way, completely free of all the continuity baggage of the Prime universe and with a new style and a new set of ground rules. I enjoyed doing it, so it wasn't a waste of time.

And, as is often the case with unsold stories, maybe I'll get to reuse some of my ideas from it at some point. If the book itself never gets published, maybe I'll get an opportunity to rework parts of it for a later Trek book. Or maybe even an original book, though I'm not sure of the legalities there, since I wrote it under a work-for-hire contract so its ideas are CBS's property, not mine. Maybe if I change the names and details enough, it'd be okay, but I don't know.

I do have one regret, which is that if I'd turned down the Abramsverse book, I would've probably gotten to write the Titan installment of the Typhon Pact series, and I would've liked to return to Titan for a third time. But at least I'm now getting to make some contribution to Typhon Pact.

Well, you're "Watching the Clock" novel was absolutely great, so hopefully you'll get a chance to explore more of the Trek temporal universe(s)!

Another DTI book is planned for next year.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I agree, your hard science approach is perfect for a series like Titan, or TOS.

But not really nuTrek. I'm really curious to see how To Seek a Newer World would have turned out. I can see Greg Cox and David Mack and ADF letting stuff like 10,000 surviving Vulcans and magical impossible supernovae and slide, but could Christopher resist the temptation to "fix" the movie to comply with the how he would prefer to see the Trek universe? Would the novel have been packed with the science-y technobabble stuff that Christopher loves, but JJ and friends deliberately avoided?