Tell me about "The Lost Era"
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Well, so far I'm about three-quarters of the way through The Sundered, and I'm very much enjoying it. I think over the coming months I'll read the entire series, intermixed with other books.
DS9 fans should not miss the Terok Nor trilogy. It is fantastic.
The Sundered/Serpents Among the Ruins/The Art of the Impossible are 3 of my top ten Trek books.
Just finished The Sundered and began Serpents Among the Ruins. I really enjoyed The Sundered.
I thoroughly enjoyed the first three Lost Era novels - The Sundered, Serpents Among the Ruins and The Art of the Impossible. I would recommend all of these. The three books that followed were mediocre or simply average. I suffered through Well of Souls (quite possibly the worst Trek novel I've read), and wasn't terribly impressed by Deny Thy Father or Catalyst of Sorrows. I haven't read any of the more recent novels published during that timeframe.
As I said upthread, this one really seems to divide fans. I myself think it's one of the best Trek novels (its thematic links to my absolute favourite "A Stitch in Time" were the icing on the cake)
^ I remember references to the Hebitians, but weren't they first mentioned in TNG? What were the references to A Stitch in Time?
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/First_Hebitian_civilization
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Glories_of_the_Hebitians
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Hebitian
The Hebitian society eventually fell when Cardassia suffered catastrophic climate change, the rainforests and grasslands transformed into desert and scrubland. Disease killed millions; and the survivors formed the militaristic and expansionistic society known as the Cardassians. (DS9 novel: A Stitch in Time)
What is it about the book that has so divided?
As I said upthread, this one really seems to divide fans. I myself think it's one of the best Trek novels (its thematic links to my absolute favourite "A Stitch in Time" were the icing on the cake)
Beyond what Therin has already detailed, the Oralian Way and the recitation masks are given new significance, and the entire "night people" plot is a continued exploration of themes introduced in "A Stitch in Time". If you reread ASIT, Tain's "we are the night people" speech to Garak, in particular, it sheds new light on the themes in "Well of Souls", which is clearly expanding on the ideas.
This is the sort of subtle interconnection between Trek books I love. What is it about the book that has so divided?
As I said upthread, this one really seems to divide fans. I myself think it's one of the best Trek novels (its thematic links to my absolute favourite "A Stitch in Time" were the icing on the cake)
I'm not sure!
All I know is that some fans like myself love it, and others can't stand it.While Lost Era is on topic again: Has anybody heard something about the Sisko / Tzenkethi War - Book which, IIRC, had been announced during one PB Shore Leave-Panel some years ago? I presume, since we haven't heard anything of it since then, it's pretty much dead?
Correctamundo
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That was Marco Palmieri's project, and with him gone, it's unlikely to be done. However, the DS9 installment of the Typhon Pact miniseries, The Rough Beasts of Empire, will reportedly deal with the Tzenkethi as well as the Romulans, so it might cover some of the same ground, conceptually if not chronologically.
Just finished Well of Souls and had to see what others thought about it, guess I should have realized it would run hot and cold in the fandom. Personally I loved it and wouldn't mind seeing more of Garret and this crew.
On a minor tangent, one of the thoughts I kept having was about how it was works like this that made me appreciate the idea of "tie-in" works. We barely knew Garret and Castillo from the one ep of TNG, and nothing about anybody else, but just having the general framework of the Trek universe as the backdrop allowed me to get right into this story. And from the comments above, I really need to read A Stitch in Time too.
On a minor tangent, one of the thoughts I kept having was about how it was works like this that made me appreciate the idea of "tie-in" works. We barely knew Garret and Castillo from the one ep of TNG, and nothing about anybody else, but just having the general framework of the Trek universe as the backdrop allowed me to get right into this story. And from the comments above, I really need to read A Stitch in Time too.
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