The Best Star Trek Novels No One Mentions?

[flandry84]

The entropy effect
Deep domain
The Romulan prize
And for sheer creepiness,Bloodthirst
As for Ms.McIntyre,it was those novelizations,found in a second hand book shop that reintroduced me to StarTrek many years ago.It is difficult to describe how,but Vonda(if I may) gave the TOS characters a "cosmopolitan-ness" that made them seem more real and more realistc residents of a unified,liberal,cool planet Earth.

 

[PaulSimpson]

By the way, regarding Dillard's early TOS books. In the UK, Titan was reprinting some early Pocket stuff in more random order, interspersed with the new regular US novels in publication order, but renumbering everything, and they managed to release "Mindshadow", "Demons" and "Bloodthirst" out of order. Thus, one of Dillard's original continuing characters dies in the UK before being introduced

Are you sure about that? I thought Titan simply picked up from Chain of Command and printed them on from there for a couple of years before dropping them? Titan were also *distributing* the older books, but I didn't think they repackaged them...

Paul

 

[Therin of Andor]

Are you sure about that? I thought Titan simply picked up from Chain of Command and printed them on from there for a couple of years before dropping them? Titan were also *distributing* the older books, but I didn't think they repackaged them...

Titan was definitely doing a monthly UK release at a time when US Pocket Books were only coming out bimonthly. Starting with "Chain of Attack" as #1, which was Pocket TOS #32 in the US. The next month's title was a previous US release.

I distinctly recall a review (in "Starburst"?), where the reviewer mentioned that the events of "Bloodthirst" UK #6 (US #37) had spoiled the eventual UK release of "Mindshadow" UK #41 (US #27) and "Demons" UK #43 (US #30), as they were out of order. There was major renumbering going at Titan on for a time (even the booklist inside the early UK editions, IIRC, with the list interspersing the new and classic titles), but yes, eventually Titan started to import the US editions and drop the UK editions.

Australian bookshops often imported both the US and UK titles at one point, and they sat alongside each other, but I kept my collection US airfreight only. We also received copies of "The Entropy Effect" as published by Orbit UK - not sure how many others they did before the UK shops first started importing.

 

[bok2384]

I found the list of Titan rereleases on Memory Beta, http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Trek_%28Titan%29, although no release dates are listed.

I have a few of these UK Titan editions and the only major changes to the covers are the publishers name and new number under the banner "The New Star Trek Novel".

 

[JeremyW]

Two words for me: Vulcan's Heart. I found a rare, first edition hardcover at a second hand bookstore in Calgary, Alberta tonight for a whopping $5.00 CDN...and I finished the book in a few hours...Dang, I LOVED this book. I've been looking for it since Vulcan's Soul Part One....I got into the latter trilogy late and only got Book 1 in Paperback, but I've always wanted to read Heart...I'm so glad I did.

 

[James Swallow]

Peter Morwood's Rules of Engagement is another book I've had real fondness for. It's the last hurrah of the John M. Ford Klingons.

I'd rhyme with that. It's a shame Peter never wrote more Trek.

 

[Stevil2001]

I'm a big fan of Barbara Hambly's later novels; Ishmael attracts all the attention because of the Here Come the Brides nonsense, but I'd take Ghost-Walker and Crossroads over it any day. Hambly has a wonderful capacity for atmosphere and does things that no one else can pull off.

 

[EliyahuQeoni]

I don't recall seeing Prime Directive mentioned here much. I haven't read it in ages, but recall enjoying it quite a bit. Not sure if it really fits in with established Trek history, but it is a great read.

 

[bennyrex]

The Romulan Prize was the first Star Trek book I ever read. I don't remember very much about it except that it was my first...

 

[HIj'Qa]

I like the LA Graf novels that focus more on the lesser troika of Sulu, Uhura and Chekov - especially Firestorm, Deathcount and Traitor Winds.

 

[elaithin]

I,Q by Peter David and John DeLancie. I freakin' loved that book. Told from Q's PoV? How could you not?

 

[Quimby]

I wanted to mention the DS9 Novel The Big Game if only because it introduced me to Texas Hold'em years before it exploded in popularity.

I'll also second Prime Directive. Another one of my favorites that is under the radar.

I really enjoyed the Uhura/Sisko Lost Era book. It seemed to get lost among the other Lost Era books because most of them were so good.

I am sure there are others but I am blanking

 

[Stevil2001]

That's the second time Prime Directive has been mentioned in this thread. It would never have occurred to me to describe it as "under the radar".

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I tend to think of Memory Prime as the "forgotten" Reeves-Stevens book, not Prime Directive. There are some scenes in Prime Directive that have stayed with me vividly for nearly twenty years.

Damn. Now I'm having an old moment.

 

[KRAD]

That's the second time Prime Directive has been mentioned in this thread. It would never have occurred to me to describe it as "under the radar".

I tend to think of Memory Prime as the "forgotten" Reeves-Stevens book, not Prime Directive.

I thought it was odd at first, but generally when people talk about the Reeves-Stevenses, it's almost always Federation that gets the love. Both MP and PD tend to get short shrift.

 

[Stevil2001]

I can buy Memory Prime-- I didn't even think to mention it in this thread, and it's always been one of my favorites. It has the best McCoy/Spock ribbing scene of all time.

 

[Sito_Jaxa]

I remember really liking the TNG novel Foreign Foes by Dave Galanter and Greg Brodeur. I haven't a clue what the novel is about since it has been a long time that I read it, but I remember loving it!

 

[EliyahuQeoni]

Well, I only mentioned Prime Directive because I don't recall seeing it mentioned here since I've been posting, which admittedly isn't that long

 

[nickyboy]

I really enjoyed The Best & The Brightest, it had a great 24th century feel about it, and perfectly recreated the feel of earth in the 24th century that we have only glimpsed in episodes such as the first duty, non-sequiter & Homefront/Paradise Lost.

 

[Quimby]

I thought it was odd at first, but generally when people talk about the Reeves-Stevenses, it's almost always Federation that gets the love. Both MP and PD tend to get short shrift.

This was pretty much my thought. PD always seemed the Jan Brady to Federation's Marsha.