Trek Books You Read in 2014

[bfollowell]

I agree that is one heck of a list. I wish I could get paid to read at work! Instead, I'd likely get fired. I guess it all depends on the type of job you have. My job isn't one that allows me to do that. If I was reading, there'd be something else I wasn't doing that I should be. I guess it comes with being a maintenance supervisor for a major auto manufacturer. Not a lot of slack or downtime. Stevil2001 and smellincoffee, I am definitely envious of your obvious speed reading abilities, as well as your being able to find the time to read so much. Enjoy and more power to you!

 

[Thrawn]

I was aiming for 100 novels / ebooks this year and almost made it... ended up at 96. 34 were Trek:

Khan:
Eugenics Wars 1
Eugenics Wars 2
To Reign in Hell

TOS Standalone:
Assignment: Eternity
The Rings of Time
That Which Divides
From History's Shadow
No Time Like the Past

Vanguard:
Declassified
What Judgments Come
Storming Heaven
In Tempest's Wake

Seekers:
Second Nature
Point of Divergence

Lost Era:
One Constant Star

Voyager pre-relaunch:
Caretaker
The Black Shore
Marooned
Flashback
Pathways
Dark Matters: Cloak and Dagger
Dark Matters: Ghost Dance
Dark Matters: Shadow of Heaven

Voyager Beyer:
Protectors
Acts of Contrition

TNG post-Nemesis:
The Light Fantastic
Q Are Cordially Uninvited

DS9 post-Fall:
Lust's Latinum Lost (and Found)
...(almost finished The Missing, got it done today.)

Titan:
Absent Enemies

DTI:
Watching the Clock
Forgotten History
The Collectors

Section 31:
Disavowed

The Fall:
Peaceable Kingdoms

 

[Stevil2001]

I read 143 books this year (so far; I reckon it will be 144 by tonight). Three were Star Trek:

1. Star Trek: The Next Generation: Ghosts by Zander Cannon
2. Star Trek: The Next Generation / Doctor Who: Assimiliation² by Scott & David Tipton with Tony Lee
3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #2: The Siege by Peter David

One of them was good.

Holy shit! 143 books???

It would take me, what, 5 years at my rate to catch up with what you did in a year!! How did you find the time? I'm so jealous. Or maybe I'm just a slow reader? How do you do it? Please share.

Well, I am in graduate school and I teach literature, so a lot of them I read for my job, so to speak. And I actually do, as suggested above, read a decent amount of comic books for pleasure because they're easier to fit in around the books I read for "work." I am a fast reader (hence my choice of profession), but I am also really self-conscious about getting in a lot of reading time: I always read for pleasure over breakfast and before I go to sleep. Never ever use the computer during breakfast.

Anyway, you got me curious, so I worked out how they all break down.

Books for Teaching or Research: 39
Collected Comic Books or Graphic Novels: 65
Other Pleasure Reading: 39

Whoa, that is a lot of comics, huh. Some do take a while (the 52 Omnibus collected 52 comics!), but four issues of the mediocre Doctor Who comic just fly by!

 

[EnriqueH]

Do you read anywhere? Or do you have a special room or chair?

 

[Plaristes]

Not counting non-fiction, this year I read 87 books and short stories. Of those, 9 were Trek. In the order I read them:

Larry Nemecek, ST: Stellar Cartography: Selections from the Federation Astronomy Library
David Mack, ST:TNG: Cold Equations: The Persistence of Memory
David Mack, ST:TNG: Cold Equations: Silent Weapons
Keith R.A. DeCandido, ST: The Klingon Art of War
David Mack, ST:TNG: Cold Equations: The Body Electric
Christopher L. Bennett, ST:E: Rise of the Federation: Tower of Babel
David R. George III, ST: The Fall: Revelation and Dust
Una McCormack, ST: The Fall: The Crimson Shadow
Christopher L. Bennett, STTI: The Collectors

 

[drc]

Mirror U: Sorrows of Empire
Mirror U: Glass Empires
VAN: Reap the Whirlwind
VAN: Open Secrets
VAN: Declassified (half-finished before it went back to library)
VAN: Precipice
Typhon Pact: All books
Cold Equations: All books
The Fall: Books 1-4
TOS: Allegiance in Exile
DTI: The Collectors
ENT: Tower of Babel

 

[Kinggodzillak]

A lot;



03/04/2014 – 04/04/2014 – TOS: A Choice of Catastrophes
07/04/2014 – 11/04/2014 – DS9: Twist of Faith
11/04/2014 – 14/04/2014 – TNG: Blaze of Glory
14/04/2014 – 23/04/2014 – DS9: These Haunted Seas
24/04/2014 – 25/04/2014 – TOS: The Better Man
28/04/2014 – 29/04/2014 – DS9: Cathedral
30/04/2014 – DS9: Lesser Evil
01/05/2014-02/05/2014 - DS9: Rising Son
05/05/2014 – 07/05/2014 – DS9: Unity
07/05/2014 – 09/05/2014 – TOS: No Time Like the Past
11/05/2014 – TOS: Seasons of Light and Darkness
12/05/2014 – 13/05/2014: TOS: The Pandora Principle
14/05/2014 – 16/05/2014: TOS: Unspoken Truth
27/05/2014 – 28/05/2014: TOS: Devil’s Bargain
28/05/2014 – 30/05/2014: TOS: The Weight of Worlds
02/06/2014 – 03/06/2014: TOS: The Covenant of the Crown
03/06/2014 – 04/06/2014: TNG: The Children of Hamlin
04/06/2014 – 06/06/2014: TOS: That Which Divides
09/06/2014 – 11/06/2014: DS9: Worlds of DS9 Volume 1 – Cardassia and Andor
11/06/2014 – 13/06/2014: DS9: Worlds of DS9 Volume 2 – Trill and Bajor
16/06/2014 – 17/06/2014: DS9: Worlds of DS9 Volume 3 – The Dominion and Ferenginar
18/06/2014 – 19/06/2014: DS9: Warpath
23/06/2014 – 24/06/2014: DS9: Fearful Symmetry
25/06/2014 – 26/06/2014: DS9: The Soul Key
30/06/2014 – 02/07/2014: DS9: A Stitch in Time
03/07/2014 – 04/07/2014: TNG: Rogue Saucer
14/07/2014 – 15/07/2014: Destiny #1
15/07/2014 – 17/07/2014: Destiny #2
17/07/2014 – 18/07/2014: Destiny #3
21/07/2014 – 22/07/2014: A Singular Destiny
23/07/2014 – 24/07/2014: TNG: Losing the Peace
24/07/2014 – 25/07/2014: TOS: The Disinherited
28/07/2014 – 29/07/2014: TP: Zero Sum Game
30/07/2014 – 31/07/2014: TP: Rough Beasts of Empire
04/08/2014 – 06/08/2014: TP: Paths of Disharmony
06/08/2014: TP: The Struggle Within
07/08/2014 – 11/08/2014: TP: Plagues of Night
11/08/2014 – 14/08/2014: TNG: Indistinguishable from Magic
15/08/2014 – 16/08/2014: TOS: Twilight’s End
26/08/2014 – 29/08/2014: TP: Raise the Dawn
01/09/2014 – 02/09/2014: TP: Brinkmanship
03/09/2014 – 05/09/2014: DS9: The Never-Ending Sacrifice
08/09/2014 – 09/09/2014: TNG: Immortal Coil
10/09/2014 – 11/09/2014: TNG: Cold Equations 1
15/09/2014 – 16/09/2014: TNG: Cold Equations 2
16/09/2014 – 17/09/2014: TNG: Cold Equations 3

 

[Reanok]

Here' part 2 of my reading list Cast No shadow James Swallow, Un spoken, Truths Margaret Wander Bonnao, Ds9 Plague of Night Raise the Dawn by David R. George, Ds9 Soul Key. Q Zone Trilogy by Greg Cox. Star trek Sce Out of the Cocoon and No time like the past, TNG Rise like Lions.

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

My trek reading last year mostly in the order I read it:

NF: Blind Man's Bluff by Peter David (started in 2013)
A Very Klingon Khristmas by Paul Ruditis & Patrick Faircy
Ongoing, Volume 3 (comic)
The Fall: The Poisoned Chalice by James Swallow
The Fall: Peaceable Kingdoms by Dayton Ward
VOY: Protectors by Kirsten Beyer
TTN: Absent Enemies by John Jackson Miller
TOS: No Time Like the Past by Greg Cox
ENT: Rise of the Federation: Tower of Babel by Christopher L. Bennett
Tales from the Captain's Table by Various
TOS: Seasons of Light and Darkness by Michael A. Martin
TOS: Serpents in the Garden by Jeff Mariotte
TNG: Hive (comic)
The Klingon Art of War by Keith R.A. DeCandido
TLE: One Constant Star by David R. George III
TNG: The Light Fantastic by Jeffrey Lang
TOS: The More Things Change by Scott Pearson
SCE: The Belly of the Beast by Dead Wesley Smith
SKRS: Second Nature by David Mack
SKRS: Point of Divergence by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore
SCE: Fatal Error by Keith R.A. DeCandido
DS9: Lust's Latinum Lost (and Found) by Paula M. Block & Terry J. Erdmann
VOY: Acts of Contrition by Kirsten Beyer
SCE: Hard Crash by Christie Golden
TNG: Q Are Cordially Uninvited... by Rudy Josephs
S31: Disavowed by David Mack
TOS: Foul Deeds Will Rise by Greg Cox
SCE: Interphase by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore
DTI: The Collectors by Christopher L. Bennett
Ships of the Line (2nd ed.)
Nero (comic)
DS9: The Missing by Una McCormack (finished this year)

I'm also going to include my non-Trek reading:

"The Doom that Came to Sarnath" by H.P. Lovecraft
Only Superhuman by Christopher L. Bennett
Torchwood: The Lost Files (audio)
The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
The Walking Dead, Volume 3: Safety Behind Bars
Emberverse series: The Protector's War by S.M. Stirling
Monk: Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu by Lee Goldberg
Castle: Storm Season (comic)
Fable: "Reaver" by Peter David
Once Upon a Time: Shadow of the Queen (comic)
Stargate SG-1: Valhalla by Tim Waggoner
Mass Effect: Evolution (comic)
Grimm: The Icy Touch by John Shirley
Torchwood: Consequences by Various
Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
Stargate Atlantis: Homecoming by Jo Graham & Melissa Scott
Fringe: The Burning Man by Christa Faust
The Walking Dead, Volume 4: The Heart's Desire
Being Human: The Road by Simon Guerrier
Walt Longmire: The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson
Supernatural: The Dogs of Edinburgh (comic)
Firefly/Serenity: Those Left Behind (comic)
Stargate SG-1: Ouroboros by Melissa Scott
Torchwood: Lost Souls (audio)
Walt Longmire: Death Without Company by Craig Johnson
Castle: A Calm Before Storm (comic)
Fable: "Jack of Blades" by Peter David
Halo: Ghosts of Onyx by Eric Nylund

 

[ICW]

TOS: Ex Machina (Personal rating 8/10)
The Fall: The Poisoned Chalice (Personal rating 9/10)
The Fall: Peaceable Kingdoms (Personal rating 7.5/10)
TNG: The Stuff Of Dreams (Personally rating 7.5/10)
Voyager: Protectors (Personal rating 8/10)
Titan: Absent Enemies (Personal rating 7.5/10)
TNG graphic novel Forgiveness (Personal rating 7/10)
Vanguard: In Tempest Wake (Personal rating 8/10)
Seekers: Second Nature(Personal rating 8/10)
Lust’s Latinum Lost (and Found) (Personal rating 7.5/10)
Voyager: Acts of Contrition (Personal rating 8/10)

 

[ronny]

I read 103 books. The new job involves lots of time commuting on public transit...

As far as Trek goes, I didn't feel like digging up all the titles but they pretty much fell into 3 categories:

- All the 2013 titles I fell behind on.
- All the 2014 titles until the 2nd Voyager book when I fell behind
- The bulk of the old Voyager numbered books so I get get those off my unread shelf into a "read Star Trek" box. I think it was 16 of them. Man, that was brutal sometimes.

Star Trek Reading Goals for 2015?
- Finish up the 4 2014 books I'm behind on
- Stay as up to date as possible on the 2015 books as they come up
- Finish up the old TNG numbered books. I've just finished 3 which brings me down to 22 books, or 2 books a month for remaining months of the year.
- A stretch goal is the 2nd Shatnerverse Trilogy.

Assuming I hit my goals what I'll have left to read at the end of the year is:
- What ever Shatnerverse books I haven't read yet
- All 10 SNW, not really looking forward to that
- And currently 35 old TOS numbered books.

Then it's just staying caught up...

 

[CaffeineAddict]

I read 72 books this year (not counting short stories), which was down considerably from the 120 I read the year before, though I did read hundreds of Comics/Graphic Novels (whatever you prefer to call them), which took up time I would previously have spent reading books.

Of those 72, 29 were Trek books:

• Peaceable Kingdoms (The Fall) - Dayton Ward
• Mission Gamma I: Twilight (DS9) - David R. George III
• Mission Gamma II: This Grey Spirit (DS9) - Heather Jarman
• A Time To Be Born (TNG) - John Vornholt
• A Time To Die (TNG) - John Vornholt
• A Time To Sow (TNG) - Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore
• A Time To Harvest (TNG) - Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore
• A Time to Love (TNG) - Robert Greenberger
• A Time to Hate (TNG) - Robert Greenberger
• Absent Enemies (Titan) - John Jackson Miller
• A Time to Kill (TNG) - David Mack
• A Time to Heal (TNG) - David Mack
• A Time for War, A Time for Peace ( TNG) - Keith R A DeCandido
• Mission Gamma III: Cathedral (DS9) - Martin & Mangels
• Mission Gamma IV: Lesser Evil (DS9) - Robert Simpson
• Rising Son (DS9) - S.D. Perry
• Unity (DS9) - S.D. Perry
• No Time Like The Past (TOS) - Greg Cox
• The Siege (DS9) - Peter David
• The Light Fantastic (TNG) - Jeffrey Lang
• Seekers 1: Second Nature - David Mack
• Star Trek: Seekers 2 - Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore
• Lusts Latinum Lost (and found) (DS9) - Paula M Block
• Cast No Shadow (Star Trek) - James Swallow
• Q are cordially uninvited (TNG) - Rudy Josephs
• Hollow Men (DS9) - Una McCormack
• Section 31: Disavowed - David Mack
• Full Circle - Kirsten Beyer
• Unworthy - Kirsten Beyer

I also read about half of Children of the Storm, but didn't finish it in the year so it doesn't count. Overall I read a lot of Trek in the first few months of the year, then tailed off and mostly read non-trek the rest of the year, with the exception of the new releases I was interested in, until December when I started reading the Voyage relaunch.

 

[Paris]

2014 was a great year of trek reading for me. Lots of great books to enjoy, and a few re-reads as well

I read 11 of the trek novel releases for 2014:
The Fall: Peaceable Kingdoms
VOY: Protectors
TOS: Serpents in the Garden
ROTF: Tower of Babel
TLE: One Constant Star
TNG: The Light Fantastic
Seekers 1: Second Nature
VOY: Acts of Contrition
S31: Disavowed
TOS: Foul Deeds Will Rise
DS9: The Missing

I also read some comics:
Harlan Ellison's City on the Edge of Forever comic series
Star Trek ongoing comic series #35-40

I also got about half way through both Seekers 2: Point of Divergence, and DS9: Hollow Men. Both will be picked up again...they were put aside for other trek novels.

Some trek books I re-read included:
TNG: A Time for War, a Time for Peace
TNG/GKN: Diplomatic Implausibility
GKN: A Good Day to Die
TLE: The Art of The Impossible
A Singular Destiny

Older trek novels I read for the first time included:
DS9: Avatar book 1
DS9: Avatar book 2
DS9: Section 31: Abyss
DS9: Gateways #4: Demons of Air and Darkness
DS9: Mission Gamma #1: Twilight
MyrU: Infinity's Prism
MyrU: Echoes and Refractions
MyrU: Shattered Light

30+ trek stories read, and all of my re-reads were KRAD books. Can you tell I miss his trek work? Hopefully we get more from him in the future

 

[Claudia]

and all of my re-reads were KRAD books. Can you tell I miss his trek work?

Oh, I, second that. KRAD brings something unique to his novels, a certain brand of humour even in the most serious of stories which is sorely missing, consistent high quality... and his love for Star Trek which was reflected in every book he was involved with. I certainly hope he'll eventually be back in the novel-verse as well (at least he had a Trek-publication last year, so that's something, I guess).

 

[KRAD]

30+ trek stories read, and all of my re-reads were KRAD books. Can you tell I miss his trek work? Hopefully we get more from him in the future

Oh, I, second that. KRAD brings something unique to his novels, a certain brand of humour even in the most serious of stories which is sorely missing, consistent high quality... and his love for Star Trek which was reflected in every book he was involved with. I certainly hope he'll eventually be back in the novel-verse as well (at least he had a Trek-publication last year, so that's something, I guess).

Thank you both very much. That was very sweet of both of you to say. Know that it's appreciated.

 

[Etoile]

Only three Trek books, but a bunch of other fiction and non-fiction, plus a boatload of grad school reading. I could have read a lot more if not for grad school...

TNG: Q&A - DeCandido
TNG: Articles of the Federation - DeCandido
TOS: Troublesome Minds - Galanter

 

[greenmystik]

I read 19 trek books last year. I had read up to the typhon pact back when it debuted in '11, then stopped b/c there were no new books. Started reading Star Wars, then came back to Trek in the middle of 2014. I love what they're doing with it so far.

Just finished Brinkmanship and gonna take another break for a month or two, or however long it takes to finish the new series I started. I don't wanna catch up again then be left with no more new trek!

 

[Spocky8492]

Last year I was finally able to read Destiny. It took me a few years to read the books leading to Destiny but I eventually was able to read them for all series except DS9. So last year I read:

- Homecoming
- The Farther Shore
- Old Wounds
- Enemy of My Enemy
- Destiny #1: Gods of Night
- Destiny #2: Mere Mortals
- Destiny #3: Lost Souls
- A Singular Destiny
- Losing the Peace
- Over a Torrent Sea (which I started in 2014 and finished in 2015)

That's between 9 and 10 Star Trek novels which is much more than the previous years.

From now on I will be able to continue up to the Typhon Pact and I already started with Full Circle.

 

[Daddy Todd]

Lots of comics, lots of memoir/behind the scenes stuff, and some related stuff (Redshirts, for example).

Several Ebook novellas -- I love these because I can polish them off in a single sitting.

Novel-wise, it was three Voyager novels, and the most recent Rise of the Federation novel (I always read Christopher's stuff as soon as it comes out. He's the only Trek writer who I make time for upon release.)

01/17/2014 Star Trek TNG: Beginnings (gn) by Michael Carlin/Pablo Marcos, Carlos Garzon & Arne Starr
01/21/2014 Star Trek: A Choice of Catastrophes by Michael Schuster and Steve Mollmann
02/04/2014 Star Trek: Vanguard: In Tempest's Wake (na) by Dayton Ward
03/15/2014 Star Trek FAQ 2.0: Everything Left to Know About the Next Generation, the Movies, and Beyond by Mark Clark
04/21/2014 Just a Geek (audiobook) by Wil Wheaton
04/22/2014 Dancing Barefoot (audiobook) by Wil Wheaton
04/23/2014 The Happiest Days of Our Lives (audiobook) by Wil Wheaton
05/12/2014 Star Trek: Enterprise: Rise of the Federation: Tower of Babel by Christopher L. Bennett
06/10/2014 Redshirts (audiobook) by John Scalzi
06/13/2014 Star Trek: TNG: The Q Trilogy (abridged audiobooks) by Peter David with John Delancie
08/10/2014 New Life and New Civilizations: Exploring Star Trek Comics (Anthology) Edited by Joseph F. Berenato
08/26/2014 These Are The Voyages - TOS Season Two by Marc Cushman with Susan Osborn
09/02/2014 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Lust's Latinum Lost (and Found) (na) by Paula M. Block & Terry J. Erdmann
09/06/2014 Star Trek: Countdown (gn) by Orci & Kurtzman, Johnson & Jones/Messina, Niro
09/06/2014 Star Trek: Nero (gn) by Orci & Kurtzman, Johnson & Jones/Messina, Niro
09/06/2014 Star Trek (gn) by Orci & Kurtzman, Johnson & Jones/Messina & Balboni, Carlucci, Niro & Traversi
09/08/2014 Star Trek: Voyager Season 1 (TV Series) by Various
10/12/2014 Star Trek: The More Things Change (na) by Scott Pearson
10/14/2014 Star Trek: Seasons of Light and Darkness (na) by Michael A. Martin
10/26/2014 Star Trek: Voyager: Unworthy by Kirsten Beyer
11/08/2014 Star Trek: Voyager: Children of the Storm by Kirsten Beyer
11/09/2014 Star Trek Volume 1 (gn) by Mike Johnson/Molnar & Phillips
11/10/2014 Star Trek Volume 2 (gn) by Mike Johnson/Corroney & Phillips
11/10/2014 Star Trek Volume 3 (gn) by Mike Johnson/Molnar & Balboni
11/10/2014 Star Trek Volume 4 (gn) by Mike Johnson/Molnar, Fajar, Prasetyo, Firmansyah
11/11/2014 Star Trek Volume 5 (gn) by Mike Johnson/
11/11/2014 Star Trek Countdown to Darkness (gn) by Orci & Johnson/Messina & Castelvetro
11/11/2014 Star Trek Khan (gn) by Orci & Johnson/Messina, Castelvetro & Sposito
11/11/2014 Star Trek Volume 6 After Darkness (gn) by Parrot, Johnson/Balboni, Fajar
11/11/2014 Star Trek Volume 7 The Khitomer Conflict (gn) by Mike Johnson/Erfan Fajar
11/11/2014 Star Trek Volume 8 (gn) by Mike Johnson/Lianj, Fajar, Ardhi, Coronney, Moya, Doan
11/27/2014 Star Trek: Voyager: The Eternal Tide by Kirsten Beyer

I had intended to rewatch all of Voyager before continuing on with the KMFB Relaunch (I read Full Circle several years ago, but never had time to read on) but only got as far as Season Two (Threshold, specifically) before giving up in disgust. Season One was much, MUCH better than I remembered it. Season Two was much, much worse. How did they go from "Pretty Damn Good" to "Oh My Gawd Awful" over the season break?