Anyone remember Dreams Of The Raven by Carmen Carter? Good book.
The Best Star Trek Novels No One Mentions?
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Ooh, Dreams of the Raven is another good one. An excellent McCoy story, and some genuinely creepy aliens.
The Final Reflection by John Ford
. I know they changed the Klingons in TNG. It still was a great read.
The Klingon protagonist had morals, ethics, a soul but not of the Earth Human variety.
. I know they changed the Klingons in TNG. It still was a great read.The Klingon protagonist had morals, ethics, a soul but not of the Earth Human variety.
Another really good McCoy story is Doctor's Orders by Diane Duane. That's the one where McCoy ends up in charge of the Enterprise.
What was that title again? I seem to have forgotten.
One of the first Trek novels I ever read, the TNG-era Metamorphosis (the first GIANT novel) was quite enjoyable to my 10-year-old eyes. I even re-read it a number of years later and found I liked it even better than before. And boy, it sure *was* giant. This was before the Trek novel miniseries craze hit, and this book had a huge story to tell -- it was about twice the size of a regular Pocket Books novel.
Another TNG favorite of mine was Grounded.
DS9 favorites included The Siege (which was truly frightening with its horror-movie style narration) and Fallen Heroes, which still stands as one of my favorite Trek novels ever: its blend of merciless antagonists, simultaneously gruesome and tearjerking death scenes, cool science play, and adventures in parts of DS9 we never saw on screen is intoxicating.
I haven't seen any of those mentioned in a while on the BBS, but then I rarely wander into the Lit forum, so I apologize if these are in the wrong place.
Another TNG favorite of mine was Grounded.
DS9 favorites included The Siege (which was truly frightening with its horror-movie style narration) and Fallen Heroes, which still stands as one of my favorite Trek novels ever: its blend of merciless antagonists, simultaneously gruesome and tearjerking death scenes, cool science play, and adventures in parts of DS9 we never saw on screen is intoxicating.
I haven't seen any of those mentioned in a while on the BBS, but then I rarely wander into the Lit forum, so I apologize if these are in the wrong place.
My two favourite Trek novels of all time have already been mentioned in this thread - Memory Prime by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Traitor Winds by L.A. Graf.
Traitor Winds is my all-time favourite (if you're going to strand me on a desert island, leave me that book)- if you squint a bit, you'll see it's Traitor Winds that my elephant is reading. I love how L.A. Graf shows life outside of the action on the bridge - you get a sense of Uhura, Chekov and Sulu as real people who have lives.
Traitor Winds is my all-time favourite (if you're going to strand me on a desert island, leave me that book)- if you squint a bit, you'll see it's Traitor Winds that my elephant is reading. I love how L.A. Graf shows life outside of the action on the bridge - you get a sense of Uhura, Chekov and Sulu as real people who have lives.
I remembered Metamorphosis as a huge book too, so I decided to check it out again, pulled it off the bookshelf and the mmpb is only 370 pages, on the lower end of the current lot of books. Interesting how our memory plays tricks with us because we remembered it as a comparison with the other books of that era. It certainly was a great book though, no questions.
Tell me about it, I remember back when the third Harry Potter book came out I thought it was huge. But now that I look back, it's actually smaller than alot of the Trek books (like the first Mission Gamma book) and half the length of the last Harry Potter.
Wow! I had no idea. I lost my copy some years ago and haven't seen it since, so I imagine you're right about my memory.
Glad to hear someone else liked it, though!
Glad to hear someone else liked it, though!
That was the first book I thought of when I saw this thread. I will say that I didn't like the "amourous computer" plotline, but overall, the book exceeded my expectations greatly. It had a fairly epic, movie-style story for such an average-length book, and didn't make the villain a moustache-twirler. Basically, my whole purpose in reading the numbered TOS books is in finding gems like these. Unfortunately, I read this pretty early in my chronology of Trek fiction, so it upped my expectations for future books a bit more than they've been able to handle.
The IDIC Epidemic has a special place in my heart as the first Trek book I ever read, when I was in maybe third grade. I remember it being intolerably suspensful at the time, and still pretty good when I re-read it recently. I also think that The Vulcan Academy Murders fits this category. Even though I found the main plot uninspired (maybe I'm just too used to the murderer being the only major character who obviously didn't do it), but I really enjoyed the early look at not only Vulcan culture in general, but also Vulcan marriage specifically. Very interesting.
I'm glad to hear you say that, because that's the book I'm reading right now. But then, I'm about 100 pages in, and I can't say I'm excited about it. So far, I would grade it as being pretty average, but it's certainly not bad enough to make me give up entirely. I decided to read it because it had good reviews on Amazon (for those who remember my former strict practices, I've pared them down to now only reading select titles due to time constraints), so I won't discount it yet.
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Agreed. This one is a favorite of mine that I go back and re-read from time to time. Always struck me (in a good way) as sort of a ST verisob of Tom Clancy's "Hunt for Red October".
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