Wait. Imzadi TRILOGY?
The Best of Peter David
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I think the OP mistakes the book Imzadi Forever for a third entry.
Its not, rather its the two Imzadi books collected in one novel.
This. I thought Forever was III.
Everyone else has listed their favourites, many of which are mine too, so all I'll say is he was incredibly consistent and had a unique writing style which I liked a lot. If his name was on the cover, you were in for a wild ride. New Frontier was fantastic, and a game-changer for Trek lit.
I will say, as with a few other Creatives such as Peter Jackson, I kind of got the sense that, when it came to tie-in fiction at least, he maybe needed some guardrails. "Before Dishonor" was arguably over the top, and even in the books of his that I really enjoyed there were moments where suspension of disbelief got pushed a bit far.
I've had this for a couple years, but never got around to reading it. Now may be the time: Mr. Sulu Grabbed My Ass, and Other Highlights from a Life in Comics, Novels, Television, Films and Video Games
Yeah, and I feel kind of bad saying this, but I thought New Frontier was kind of a mess by the end. It was fantastic up until we got to the time jump, but it felt to me like after that there was a slow drop in quality, and it go to the point where I never bothered to read that last two or three part story arc.
He also wrote What Savage Beast? from the 90’s Marvel novel line. I haven’t read it yet, but from what I’ve heard it’s considered one of the top books of that series.
Spider-man books
Oh, I should also mention THE AVENGER: THE ROARING HEART OF THE CRUCIBLE, an anthology coming out this spring featuring new stories about the classic pulp hero created by "Kenneth Robeson." (And, yes, I have a story in the anthology.) I'm VERY excited to hear this. Who's publishing this...
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I happened to be reading The Siege (DS9 #2) when his death was announced. I thought this was a great book considering he must have been writing it around the time DS9 was launching so he didn’t have much to go on to get a grasp of the characters,
Also found it bizarre that one of the main plot threads was the same as B5’s Believers yet this book came out first. I wonder if Peter David felt that his idea had been lifted or was it just a coincidence? Guess we’ll never know.
Also found it bizarre that one of the main plot threads was the same as B5’s Believers yet this book came out first. I wonder if Peter David felt that his idea had been lifted or was it just a coincidence? Guess we’ll never know.
That's always struck me as being very weird as well.
Great idea, I was really sad to learn that Peter David has passed. There isn't any of his work that I've disliked, that I've come across so far.
Vendetta put him on the map for me. The Best of Both Worlds follow up that I giddy to discover, the moment I saw it. I was struck by how much I enjoyed his prose and story telling.
Imzadi I got in hard cover because I was intrigued by the presence of the Guardian of Forever on the cover. Cemented that I really liked his writing.
The Rocketeer is an enjoyable novelization, with a few extra and expanded scenes. A stand out moment is when Cliff takes off on his first flight by rocket pack, and David put me inside Cliff's head. The fear and elation...and how painful and harrowing his rescue efforts were during that first flight.
First Knight was a fun exploration of King Arthur awakening from his sleep in the modern world. A reincarnated character from his original life has a name that is a hilarious word play, and there's a great laugh early in the story about the cliche of a knight in shining armor.
Who Killed Captain Kirk? - using this as a blanket title for all of David's run of the end of the Star Trek DC Volume 1 comic series, which I suppose works as a broad story arc if considering a returning villain (one of my favorites from TOS, actually). This is the title of what became presented as a graphic novel, reprinted a couple times, I believe, and always excluding the actual first issue, unfortunately. The comic series had it's ups and downs, but when Peter David starts his run of issues, it's an almost overpowering jolt of quality story telling (that kind of puts many earlier stories and issues to shame). I've had a blast with Star Trek DC Volume 1, and Peter David ending the run was a great way to see the series come to an end.
As I say, there isn't anything I disliked. I've also enjoyed New Frontier, The Rift, other movie novelizations (the Batman Forever novelization created in my mind's eye the movie that I wish we had gotten), even random one-shot comic issues with his name on it, always enjoyed his work.
Vendetta put him on the map for me. The Best of Both Worlds follow up that I giddy to discover, the moment I saw it. I was struck by how much I enjoyed his prose and story telling.
Imzadi I got in hard cover because I was intrigued by the presence of the Guardian of Forever on the cover. Cemented that I really liked his writing.
The Rocketeer is an enjoyable novelization, with a few extra and expanded scenes. A stand out moment is when Cliff takes off on his first flight by rocket pack, and David put me inside Cliff's head. The fear and elation...and how painful and harrowing his rescue efforts were during that first flight.
First Knight was a fun exploration of King Arthur awakening from his sleep in the modern world. A reincarnated character from his original life has a name that is a hilarious word play, and there's a great laugh early in the story about the cliche of a knight in shining armor.
Who Killed Captain Kirk? - using this as a blanket title for all of David's run of the end of the Star Trek DC Volume 1 comic series, which I suppose works as a broad story arc if considering a returning villain (one of my favorites from TOS, actually). This is the title of what became presented as a graphic novel, reprinted a couple times, I believe, and always excluding the actual first issue, unfortunately. The comic series had it's ups and downs, but when Peter David starts his run of issues, it's an almost overpowering jolt of quality story telling (that kind of puts many earlier stories and issues to shame). I've had a blast with Star Trek DC Volume 1, and Peter David ending the run was a great way to see the series come to an end.
As I say, there isn't anything I disliked. I've also enjoyed New Frontier, The Rift, other movie novelizations (the Batman Forever novelization created in my mind's eye the movie that I wish we had gotten), even random one-shot comic issues with his name on it, always enjoyed his work.
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