TOS: Child of Two Worlds - Pre-Release Discussion

[Greg Cox]

Re: TOS: A Child of Two Worlds - Discussion

Might be interesting as long as they are written as the Prime versions.

These are definitely the Prime versions. Think Jeffrey Hunter, Majel Barrett, a young Nimoy, etc.

Not to mention Dr. Boyce, Yeoman Colt, etc.

It´s practically bought. I never saw much of Jeffrey Hunter.

Are there any other Pike (Jeffrey Hunter) era novels except Children of Kings?

There's been a few over the years: Vulcan's Glory by D.C. Fontana, Burning Dreams by Margaret Bonanno, The Rift by Peter David, Where Sea Meets Sky by Jerry Oltion, and a couple others. Pike occasionally pops up in flashbacks and short stories and comic books as well.

 

[Kilana2]

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Ah, Captain´s Table. I´m going to buy the omnibus edition some time in the future, I forgot about Pike having a CT story.

Vulcan´s Glory (Vulkans Ruhm) and The Rift (Der Riss im Kontinuum) are already somewhere on my bookshelf. I started reading ST novels when I was 15, and now I´m 36, so it´s been a long time.

 

[Greg Cox]

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Note: The Rift starts out in Pike's era, for the first few chapters, but then jumps ahead to Kirk and his five-year-mission, so it's not a wholly Pike-centric novel.

 

[Kilana2]

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I surely have read it in the past. Now that I think of it, Pike is also mentioned in Michael Jan Friedman´s Legacy (I had to look up for the original title). Old story, Memory Beta says 1991.

 

[Christopher]

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Legacy is perhaps the only book that gets into the later years of Pike's tenure on the Enterprise, even if it is just in brief flashbacks here and there. Most Pike stories cluster very tightly around "The Cage."

 

[Greg Cox]

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I surely have read it in the past. Now that I think of it, Pike is also mentioned in Michael Jan Friedman´s Legacy (I had to look up for the original title). Old story, Memory Beta says 1991.

Right! I knew there a Mike Friedman book with Pike, but I was too lazy to look up the title!

 

[Kilana2]

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I had the German title in mind including the cover. Glad to be of help.

 

[Ronald Held]

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Might be interesting as long as they are written as the Prime versions.

These are definitely the Prime versions. Think Jeffrey Hunter, Majel Barrett, a young Nimoy, etc.

Not to mention Dr. Boyce, Yeoman Colt, etc.

That is good to know. Thanks.

 

[JD]

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Kilana 2, if you read comics then you should check out Early Voyages. I read all but the unfinished final arc on the comics DVD and really enjoyed the whole series. I think some elements of it have even been worked into Novelverse stories, the series Enterprise Chief Engineer has appeared in a (or maybe multiple) 23rd Century SCE stories, and I think someone said an alien race it introduced appeared in one of the Seekers novels.
I just found out something I did not know, EV was written by Dan Abnett and Ian Edington, the creators of the version of the Guardians of the Galaxy that appeared in the movie.

 

[Kilana2]

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Kilana 2, if you read comics then you should check out Early Voyages. I read all but the unfinished final arc on the comics DVD and really enjoyed the whole series. I think some elements of it have even been worked into Novelverse stories, the series Enterprise Chief Engineer has appeared in a (or maybe multiple) 23rd Century SCE stories, and I think someone said an alien race it introduced appeared in one of the Seekers novels.
I just found out something I did not know, EV was written by Dan Abnett and Ian Edington, the creators of the version of the Guardians of the Galaxy that appeared in the movie.

Sorry, I´m not a comics person. But I´m looking forward to this new Greg Cox novel including Chris Pike. I´m about to finish Foul deeds.
And there is no release date yet for the German "Rise and Fall of Khan" novels. The German publisher has postponed it from February to "until further notice" or May the 18th 2015 or whenever it will be. I know these novels are "khantastic". A Greg Cox year you might say

 

[Paris]

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...I just found out something I did not know, EV was written by Dan Abnett and Ian Edington, the creators of the version of the Guardians of the Galaxy that appeared in the movie.

I believe you mean Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning when it comes to the co-writers that GotG was loosely based off of. They were not the GotG creators though. But you were right about Dan Abnett and Ian Edington being the writers of ST: EV .

 

[Christopher]

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^I assume JD meant that Abnett and Lanning were the ones who formed the current team roster that the movie was based on. They didn't create the individual characters, but they did create the premise/format of the book, the idea of the Guardians of the Galaxy being a present-day (as opposed to far-future) team consisting of Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Groot, and Rocket (among others).

 

[JD]

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Oh, my bad. I could has sworn Eddington was his co-writer on GotG.

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

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Oh, my bad. I could has sworn Eddington was his co-writer on GotG.

Poor Andy Lanning. First, he and Abnett have a falling out and their successful writing partnership evaporates, then Abnett continues writing comics and novels alone and Lanning has to go back to inking highly detailed pencil work from Phil Jimenez (a guaranteed carpal tunnel situation) with almost zero writing assignments coming his way. That has to sting.

In Treklit terms, he's Mangels, but with an advanced case of carpal tunnel syndrome, and Abnett is Martin, but with a more highly regarded solo output.

 

[JD]

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That is a shame. Now I feel guilty for getting my co-writers mixed up.

 

[Kilana2]

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Wasn´t there a Starfleet Academy TOS novel featuring Christopher Pike? As I´m a collector I´m interested even in the novels for kids (except nuTrek novels). Sadly, most of them are out of stock now...

 

[JD]

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If you mean the old '90s SA books, then I believe he was at least in the Spock book in the TOS trilogy. I used to love those books when I was a kid.

 

[Kilana2]

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If you mean the old '90s SA books, then I believe he was at least in the Spock book in the TOS trilogy. I used to love those books when I was a kid.

That´s what I have read on Memory Beta. Crisis on Vulcan. It´s currently not available to fair prices.

 

[Greg Cox]

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I confess I missed that one when I was researching Pike . . . .

 

[Defcon]

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The cover is online over at simonandschuster.com (labeled not final):