The Never Ending Sacrifice extract in Star Trek Magazine #20

[PaulSimpson]

Coming soon to a newsstand near you - Star Trek Magazine 20, which includes a wonderful extract from Una McCormack's great new DS9 novel The Never-Ending Sacrifice. Also this month, courtesy of Allyn Gibson, a complete history of the Borg, including their appearances in all media, incorporating for the first time, the new information revealed in the Destiny trilogy. Plus an interview with the Borg Queen herself, Alice Krige, and in our movie section, interviews with J.J. Abrams and make up department head Mindy Hall. Add in reviews of The Never-Ending Sacrifice, The Soul Key and the audiobook of the movie, and it's a packed 68 pages. Available very early August from newsstands in the States, and mid-August in the UK.

Paul

 

[BrotherBenny]

Now that sounds cool.

Shame I still have about three weeks to wait.

Grrr.

 

[PaulSimpson]

Now that sounds cool.

Shame I still have about three weeks to wait.

Grrr.

One hour, eight minutes... a new record!

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Coming soon to a newsstand near you - Star Trek Magazine 20, which includes a wonderful extract from Una McCormack's great new DS9 novel The Never-Ending Sacrifice. Also this month, courtesy of Allyn Gibson, a complete history of the Borg, including their appearances in all media, incorporating for the first time, the new information revealed in the Destiny trilogy. Plus an interview with the Borg Queen herself, Alice Krige, and in our movie section, interviews with J.J. Abrams and make up department head Mindy Hall. Add in reviews of The Never-Ending Sacrifice, The Soul Key and the audiobook of the movie, and it's a packed 68 pages. Available very early August from newsstands in the States, and mid-August in the UK.

Paul

I read an on-line excerpt of "The Never-Ending Sacrifice", and loved it. All I can say is "Mmmm...Cardassians...". I look forward to reading another excerpt in the magazine!

 

[BrotherBenny]

Now that sounds cool.

Shame I still have about three weeks to wait.

Grrr.

One hour, eight minutes... a new record!

Yes!!

Seriously, why can't Titan print magazines in the UK instead of shipping them from across the pond?

 

[Reanok]

I've been a fan of the ds9 books for a long time.I've ordered Soul Key and The Never Ending Sacrifice. I can't wait to read these books!Also looking forward to getting the magazine and reading the excerpt.

 

[flandry84]

I heartily apologise if this has been answered elsewhere,but is this book totally Cardassian-centric or do the DS9 characters appear in it?

 

[DimesDan]

Now that sounds cool.

Shame I still have about three weeks to wait.

Grrr.

One hour, eight minutes... a new record!

Yes!!

Seriously, why can't Titan print magazines in the UK instead of shipping them from across the pond?

Because it's cheaper to do it that way than the other way round?

 

[JD]

Coming soon to a newsstand near you - Star Trek Magazine 20, which includes a wonderful extract from Una McCormack's great new DS9 novel The Never-Ending Sacrifice. Also this month, courtesy of Allyn Gibson, a complete history of the Borg, including their appearances in all media, incorporating for the first time, the new information revealed in the Destiny trilogy. Plus an interview with the Borg Queen herself, Alice Krige, and in our movie section, interviews with J.J. Abrams and make up department head Mindy Hall. Add in reviews of The Never-Ending Sacrifice, The Soul Key and the audiobook of the movie, and it's a packed 68 pages. Available very early August from newsstands in the States, and mid-August in the UK.

Paul

I read an on-line excerpt of "The Never-Ending Sacrifice", and loved it. All I can say is "Mmmm...Cardassians...". I look forward to reading another excerpt in the magazine!

Where did you find it?

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Coming soon to a newsstand near you - Star Trek Magazine 20, which includes a wonderful extract from Una McCormack's great new DS9 novel The Never-Ending Sacrifice. Also this month, courtesy of Allyn Gibson, a complete history of the Borg, including their appearances in all media, incorporating for the first time, the new information revealed in the Destiny trilogy. Plus an interview with the Borg Queen herself, Alice Krige, and in our movie section, interviews with J.J. Abrams and make up department head Mindy Hall. Add in reviews of The Never-Ending Sacrifice, The Soul Key and the audiobook of the movie, and it's a packed 68 pages. Available very early August from newsstands in the States, and mid-August in the UK.

Paul

I read an on-line excerpt of "The Never-Ending Sacrifice", and loved it. All I can say is "Mmmm...Cardassians...". I look forward to reading another excerpt in the magazine!

Where did you find it?

I think- and I'm sorry I can't be sure- it was our old friends the drunken monkeys who put it up (the Simon and Schuster website).

 

[PaulSimpson]

One hour, eight minutes... a new record!

Yes!!

Seriously, why can't Titan print magazines in the UK instead of shipping them from across the pond?

Because it's cheaper to do it that way than the other way round?

It is sheer economics. For obvious reasons I can't go into any sort of detail, but the US readership is inevitably much bigger and any business decision would have to reflect that. We are looking into some shortcuts for subscribers but these decisions aren't editorial.

Paul

 

[PaulSimpson]

I heartily apologise if this has been answered elsewhere,but is this book totally Cardassian-centric or do the DS9 characters appear in it?

A lot of very familiar faces appear... (suitably enigmatic?)

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Seriously, why can't Titan print magazines in the UK instead of shipping them from across the pond?

There's a publication I work on that's exclusively for the UK. Only about 500 copies are printed of it total. Until three months ago, it was printed in upstate New York, because it was cheaper to have it printed there and flown across the Atlantic than to deal with a UK printer. It's just economics.

 

[JD]

I read an on-line excerpt of "The Never-Ending Sacrifice", and loved it. All I can say is "Mmmm...Cardassians...". I look forward to reading another excerpt in the magazine!

Where did you find it?

I think- and I'm sorry I can't be sure- it was our old friends the drunken monkeys who put it up (the Simon and Schuster website).

I just checked and if was up it's not anymore, although they have added the blurb.

A boy looks up. He sees a Cardassian's hand on his shoulder and knows that this is usually a prelude to a beating or, if he is fortunate enough, arrest. The boy knows how many disappeared during the Occupation of Bajor. So he does the one thing he can think of: he bites the Cardassian. Then the nightmare begins.
He is ripped from the family that took him in as an orphan, clothed him, fed him, always loved him unconditionally. And no matter how earnest, how caring the commander of Deep Space 9 is, the boy knows this is all a horrible mistake. How can someone from Starfleet judge him by what he looks like, not by what he is? He prays to the Prophets; he is Bajoran. They all keep telling him that the test proves the large Cardassian man is his father, that the other Cardassian -- that oily gul -- took him away from his father. But the boy keeps telling them that he is Bajoran, he only wants to go home with his father. So they send Rugal home -- to Cardassia.
On the homeworld of the Cardassian Union where sacrifice and devotion to the state are surpassed only by the government's need to keep its people in check, one very lonely boy discovers that if he doesn't resist, his life -- like those of so many others -- will be added to the tally of the never-ending sacrifice.​

Sounds good to me. Although I wish they'd done alittle more with the actual book, instead of just recapping the Rugal episode.

 

[Defcon]

I just checked and if was up it's not anymore,

http://www.simonandschuster.net/content/book.cfm?pid=652387&tab=1&agid=2

 

[LutherSloan]

It will be interesting to see if you can do a whole book about a very minor DS9 one-shot character. Reading the excerpt, it already feels like it's continuing where the 'Terok Nor' series left off. Several characters from that series have already appeared or been mentioned.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

It will be interesting to see if you can do a whole book about a very minor DS9 one-shot character.

I don't think the whole novel is about Rugal, just tells the story of the Cardassian people from his perspective. He might even be the narrator, as it were.

That being said, I hope we will also get excerpts from the fictional novel of the same name (Garak said it was the finest example of 'repetitive epic' Cardassian literature).

 

[Christopher]

It will be interesting to see if you can do a whole book about a very minor DS9 one-shot character.

I don't know if it's really about Rugal -- I expect it's really about Cardassia, but seen through Rugal's eyes. And that's a good choice, since Rugal was raised on Bajor and is thus an outsider to Cardassian society, making him a good reader surrogate.

 

[DimesDan]

Yes!!

Seriously, why can't Titan print magazines in the UK instead of shipping them from across the pond?

Because it's cheaper to do it that way than the other way round?

It is sheer economics. For obvious reasons I can't go into any sort of detail, but the US readership is inevitably much bigger and any business decision would have to reflect that. We are looking into some shortcuts for subscribers but these decisions aren't editorial.

Paul

I thought as much.

 

[DS9forever]

That excerpt was excellent. I honestly can't wait to read the parts with the Klingon invasion and the Dominion War!