I propose a short anthology of stories based on Klingon battle songs: Four Tunes of War.
The Almighty Lit-verse Flowchart: 2020 Edition
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I propose a short anthology of stories based on Klingon battle songs: Four Tunes of War.
Fortunes of War was already used as an overall title for two Star Trek novels by Diane Carey (Dreadnought! and Battle Stations!) — that, I now remember, was why I had to use the singular version for my novel.
This flow chart has always been amazing (as well as useful) and the update doesn't disappoint! Great work!
They don't really connect to the books on the flowchart; this isn't a comprehensive list of everything, just of that subset of books that share a wealth of continuity references or ongoing plotlines. It's always been a little bit of a judgment call which books appear in the flowchart and which don't, but more or less we came down to small cameos and/or references that aren't essential to the plot not being enough for a book to be represented. And that's all the Discovery novels have. The Kelvin books are explicitly in another timeline, and the Picard book is in a separate continuity irreconcilable with the continuity on the flowchart. So don't expect to see those on there any time soon!
As I've not read all of the Discovery books yet, are they released in chronological order? Also,do any of the TOS books set in Pike's time as Captain line up chronologically?
No, and there's no reason for them to be since they're all standalones focusing on different characters. Desperate Hours is 2255, Drastic Measures is 2246, Fear Itself is 2252, and The Way to the Stars is c. 2249. Although the more recent ones are closer together -- The Enterprise War is 2256-7 (during DSC's first season), Dead Endless seems to be late first season or thereabouts, and Die Standing looks to be between seasons 1-2.
I'm not sure I understand the question. The few Pike novels were all independent of each other and didn't fit into any kind of sequence, although most authors dealing with Pike tend to set their works either shortly before or shortly after "The Cage."
The Discovery novels are all stand alone stories based around different characters backstories or filling in gaps in their stories in the show.
Desperate Hours - Burnham (there is some stuff with Spock in this one that is contradicted by Season 2)
Drastic Measures - Prime Georgiou and Prime Lorca
Fear Itself - Saru
The Way to the Stars - Tilly
The Enterprise War - The Enterprise crew during Season 1
Dead Endless -
Culber between his death and resurrection
It's specifically about character continuity and storyline links, which is why not every novel is in there in the first place. By definition, PIC novels can't be part of the novelverse because they have a radically different storyline after Nemesis, so it doesn't matter what little references or commonalities they have (Worf being first officer, Andorian names and genders), PIC and DSC and KLV novels just don't work with the novelverse.
Even if there is some kind of Crisis on Infinite Treks coming that'll tie the novelverse into the new shows, it's still unlikely that the new-series books will go into the chart, because the fundamental purpose of the chart is to allow people to figure out what stories lead into a given new novel (the "Do I read Articles of the Federation before this?" question), and the new-series books aren't going to be continuations or sequels to novelverse novels, so you won't need a flowchart to figure out what novels lead into them.
^ What he said.
Or I suppose a better answer would be that if/when there comes a time that tie-ins to the new canon are complicated enough that it becomes a good idea to read one book before another, that is if new tie-ins develop ongoing storylines or references between them independent of the shows they're based on, maybe we'll start a new flowchart for the new litverse #2, or something. But it'll have to be a lot of complexity.
I mean, this flowchart only exists because of all the complicatedness between A Time To... and Destiny; before that kind of branching internally referential storytelling across multiple different banners a flowchart wasn't really necessary. There were ongoing storylines, yes, but, like, for each DS9 book, to continue the DS9 story you just read the next DS9 book. The flowchart was a good idea because of plotlines that started in A Time For War / A Time For Peace, continued in Taking Wing, resolved in Articles of the Federation... in that case, just going to the next book in a series wasn't sufficient.
So far, each new-canon tie-in stands completely alone. There aren't any links, much less ongoing storylines, much less ongoing storylines between novels of different series. So probably the new stuff won't have a flowchart for a long time.
It's not a question of "ignoring" it. It's a question of if a flowchart like this would actually provide helpful information to a reader.
Or I suppose a better answer would be that if/when there comes a time that tie-ins to the new canon are complicated enough that it becomes a good idea to read one book before another, that is if new tie-ins develop ongoing storylines or references between them independent of the shows they're based on, maybe we'll start a new flowchart for the new litverse #2, or something. But it'll have to be a lot of complexity.
I mean, this flowchart only exists because of all the complicatedness between A Time To... and Destiny; before that kind of branching internally referential storytelling across multiple different banners a flowchart wasn't really necessary. There were ongoing storylines, yes, but, like, for each DS9 book, to continue the DS9 story you just read the next DS9 book. The flowchart was a good idea because of plotlines that started in A Time For War / A Time For Peace, continued in Taking Wing, resolved in Articles of the Federation... in that case, just going to the next book in a series wasn't sufficient.
So far, each new-canon tie-in stands completely alone. There aren't any links, much less ongoing storylines, much less ongoing storylines between novels of different series. So probably the new stuff won't have a flowchart for a long time.
It's not a question of "ignoring" it. It's a question of if a flowchart like this would actually provide helpful information to a reader.
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