I just received a comp copy of The Sky's the Limit, so keep your eyes peeled, it should start appearing in bookstores soon! :thumbsup:
The Sky's the Limit
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^^And I loved "Among the Clouds," Scott. A nifty piece of hard SF.
Scott,
Do you know when that soon might be?
I guess I will be on the look for this one. Does anyone have an idea when the TNG ebook series centered around the Enterprise-E is suppose to be out? I looked last night on the site but nothing was there.
Thanks!
I'm glad it met your approval, you of the daunting amount of research behind your stories. I was shaking my head at myself as I was trying to figure out varying levels of atmospheric pressure and drag in a Jovian environment. That got pretty esoteric, even for my borderline OC tendencies. 
But I haven't read the anthology yet, and I just started Dune. Dune was my cousin Kevin's favorite novel; I dedicated "Among the Clouds" to him. He was killed in a car accident last December while I was working on the story. He always bugged me to read the Dune series, so I'm finally doing it for him.
KRAD said:
We're hoping for Slings and Arrows to go live the first week in October. I'll announce it here when it does, worry not.
Looking forward to that then KRAD. I just have been catching up on most of the TNG novels lately and trying to finish up with A Time to Series and then work backwards with Slings and Arrows.
Sooner than later?
Any date would only be guess on my part. I don't think Pocket Books is keeping a hard on-sale date on this, so now that the book is printed, it's moving through the shipping process. How quickly or slowly that process goes contains a number of variables beyond my knowledge. Given how rarely I get to a bookstore, someone else will spot the thing long before me!
Glad you enjoyed it! And yes, part of our thought process behind the story was to show someone with a different perspective on Starfleet career advancement and captaincy than we often see.
I'm going to camp out behind the letterbox in the hall waiting for mine, then...
I'm looking forward to this. I like short Trek stories, obviously!
Just got mine, too. Splendid stuff!
And in that you succeeded. It's like that discussion about Geordi becoming captain in the future. He doesn't have to, it's not his expertise. I don't see Uhura as a Starship captain either.
The only sad thing about your story: I always thought that the Enterprise would have been offered to noone but Picard 'cause he was the best for it. Seems like we only got our second-best-captain to star in the series.
Tino said:
The only sad thing about your story: I always thought that the Enterprise would have been offered to noone but Picard 'cause he was the best for it. Seems like we only got our second-best-captain to star in the series.
I take it you haven't read The Buried Age.
You're right. I've tried to avoid it.
But not because of the novel itself. I just wanted to start with the new TNG-boks and then dig in the "Lost Era"-novels later, including yours.
I prefer reading a couple of books of the same series in a row than having to wait a year. I've waited until the third TITAN book came out until I finally ordered them. I also waited for LFM to come out until I read all ENT novels to that date.
I guess I'm a series-oriented reader.
But not because of the novel itself. I just wanted to start with the new TNG-boks and then dig in the "Lost Era"-novels later, including yours.
I prefer reading a couple of books of the same series in a row than having to wait a year. I've waited until the third TITAN book came out until I finally ordered them. I also waited for LFM to come out until I read all ENT novels to that date.
I guess I'm a series-oriented reader.
Our reasoning was that Picard took command of the ship only a very short time before "Encounter of Farpoint" (as per "All Good Things ..."), so somebody else must have been in command before him, even if the Enterprise didn't really do much before that first mission.Tino said:
The only sad thing about your story: I always thought that the Enterprise would have been offered to noone but Picard 'cause he was the best for it. Seems like we only got our second-best-captain to star in the series.
It was also partially inspired by Rick Sternbach's Star Trek: The Magazine article about the Constellation class, in which he postulates that the Stargazer began "a series of checkout flights under Captain Donald Capello". We figured that this was standard Starfleet procedure, and spun our own yarn from there.
Lucky lucky you to anyone who already has this book!!! I'm really excited for it. I'll be getting as soon as I see it on shelves.
Mine arrived, yay!
Looks a really nice collection, and I shall take it with me to read when I go away for a few days, after next weekend.
Can't believe my first proper Pocket Books licenced Trek thing is in there... Wow.
Looks a really nice collection, and I shall take it with me to read when I go away for a few days, after next weekend.
Can't believe my first proper Pocket Books licenced Trek thing is in there... Wow.
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