I found a copy of Rick Barba's YA novel, featuring the JJ-movie versions of Young Spock, McCoy and Cadets Kirk and Uhura at Starfleet Academy, today in Sydney - thanks to Galaxy Bookshop!
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The Delta Anomaly (JJ ST YA novel) is out!
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Hmm. I may have to check this out. Star Trek is the only thing that can make me buy a YA novel. The question is page count/price...and if my local book shop doesn't carry it I'll definitely pass for now.
223pp @ $US 7.99 for the paperback. I seem to recall it'll also be available in hardcover. Seems to be at least twice as much story as the old ST YA books.
I'm pleasantly surprised that it's over 200 pages, would've expected less. I hope they stock it in my town.
Just ordered mine a couple of hours ago, and gleefully did so in hardcover (oh how I've missed Star Trek in hardcover!). I'm looking forward to seeing what we get from the first novel set in th new reality!
Next few days are going to be good, I have this, Zero Sum Game, and the Haynes Manual on the way!
Next few days are going to be good, I have this, Zero Sum Game, and the Haynes Manual on the way!
Well, the first published novel set in the new reality.
Heh, indeed, I was a considerably more excited about the others, but, it's a start…
They had one copy (left). And now it's mine 
Glad I decided to check for it. I like the cover art, and Spock's on the back. As suggested above, this is not one of the 4 delayed novels (will we ever see them?), but it beats a poke in the eye.
Glad I decided to check for it. I like the cover art, and Spock's on the back. As suggested above, this is not one of the 4 delayed novels (will we ever see them?), but it beats a poke in the eye.
Pocket has already paid the four authors, so I'm sure there'll be an attempt to salvage something eventually, even if they have to wait for both sequel movies to emerge first.
Oh, good! Even if we have to wait a while, that's better than never! Then we'd always wonder what might have been. Then again of course, if the upcoming movies cause the books to be revised significantly, we can still wonder what might have been: what the stories were originally like. 
I'm curious as to how Delta Anomaly compares to "grown up" academy novels, like Collision Course, The Best and Brightest, Starfleet Academy (based on the old PC game) etc.
Or even how it measures up to the old TNG/TOS/VOY Academy line (I have fond memories, but I don't dare re-read for fear of ruining them!)
Or even how it measures up to the old TNG/TOS/VOY Academy line (I have fond memories, but I don't dare re-read for fear of ruining them!)
We waited a loooooooooooong time for the conclusion to the Diane Duane's "Rihannsu" saga. There was also a gap of many years between the proposal and the publishing of Gene DeWeese's "Engines of Destiny" (the early manuscripts were donated to a public library, after it had passed into limbo, which was how we learned it even existed), and we had to wait patiently for delayed projects such as "Probe" (if you've heard of that controversy; the original was Margaret Wander bonanno's "Music of the Spheres"), and there was the rather quirky "Dyson Sphere" (with a horta-filled Starfleet vessel, which I enjoyed very much) by Charles Pellegrino & George Zebrowski.
Even when a ST novel proposal passes into oblivion, something of it can morph into something else, such as "Armada" by prominent SF writer, Robert J Sawyer, in which the seeds for the Waldahudin (from his Hugo Award-nominated novel Starplex), some of the themes that ultimately ended up in his Hugo Award-nominated Calculating God, and an early version of Chapter 6 ("Afsan at the Hunter's Shrine") of his novel Far-Seer.
http://www.sfwriter.com/armada.htm
Sadly, "Armada" was going to feature Mr Arex, a rare treat in the era in which it was proposed!
If these are any where near as good as the previous prime universe Starfleet Academy YA novels I'll be happy.
I'm about halfway through. It's fun to have new scenes with Gaila and, so far, most of the characterisations have been fine. A Tellarite cadet is featured and a Betelgeusian cadet's brief description reads like Rick Barba used "Ex Machina" for reference. Yay! Love those TMP aliens!
The story is a murder mystery and perhaps a bit pedestrian/SF so far with its weird smoke-powered murderer. There's an overuse of 21st century young-people slang ("cool", "dude", "yo girl", etc), but I guess that's for the target audience. There are numerous discussions of bars, bar-hopping, curfews, intoxicated cadets, girls in towels, flirtations, so it's definitely up a few levels from the YA "Starfleet Academy" books of old, and maybe more akin to "The Best and the Brightest", which came out as a regular TNG novel.
Thanks. Saved me $7.99, as I almost picked this up the other day and was still on the fence.
I read it on Friday and I liked it. Not in the way I liked Destiny, mind you. Kirk's parts felt like Chris Pine's performance to me. It was easy to hear Pine's voice in my head. Spock, however, did not feel like Spock to me. Either Spock. Balancing out, though it was a fun little story.
How many times are the Borg gonna show up before they're supposed to, anyway?
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I won't even be thumbing through it if I see it in the store. That just sounds awful.
If I was entertained by that type of language, I'd just talk to my two teenage kids or watch an episode of iCarly.
Sounds great.
If I was entertained by that type of language, I'd just talk to my two teenage kids or watch an episode of iCarly.
Can't say I'm to thrilled hearing about the use of contemporary language, but I doubt many of us here are still part of the target audience of these novels and if that is what it takes to reach younger readers, so be it. If some of those teens checking out those novels later "graduate" to the "normal" Star Trek novels we benefit, too, since S&S will only continue the Trek line as long as they see profit in it, and more readers= more profit=continuation of the line.
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