Spoilers VOY: Architects of Infinity by Kirsten Beyer Review Thread

[A Killer's Dream]

We have to wait for this just a little bit longer. But I'm really looking forward to reading this. So I just started this review thread.

 

[ryan123450]

The only thing bad about this novel is that we’ll have a very long wait til the next one (if ever).

 

[A Killer's Dream]

The only thing bad about this novel is that we’ll have a very long wait til the next one (if ever).

That's true. Time for me to do a lot of catching up. Until the next Voyager novel it is likely that Cross Cult has already translated this one into German...

 

[DimesDan]

I need reminding, when is the "publication" date for this?

 

[Jinn]

I need reminding, when is the "publication" date for this?

I think it's March 27.

 

[DimesDan]

I think it's March 27.

A while still then.

 

[A Killer's Dream]

I think it's March 27.

That's what I've read, too, when I last looked it up. I know that I'm a bit too early for this thread. It was just excitement and anticipation. I want to know how things are going on with Harry and Nancy.....

 

[Thrawn]

The only thing bad about this novel is that we’ll have a very long wait til the next one (if ever).

The next one is definitely coming - it's already been contracted and outlined. Obviously working on Discovery has slowed Kirsten's other writing down, but she's been clear in a couple interviews that it's under contract and she'll deliver it when she can.

 

[ryan123450]

The next one is definitely coming - it's already been contracted and outlined. Obviously working on Discovery has slowed Kirsten's other writing down, but she's been clear in a couple interviews that it's under contract and she'll deliver it when she can.

Being not as knowledgable about the contractual details of things as some others, I wonder how this works. Is it possible that Kirsten had a contract with Pocket to write X amount of books, but the fact that Pocket (at least during this gap) doesn’t have a license to publish Trek books prevent her from fulfilling said contract like she originally planned? It doesn’t seem like To Lose the Earth was ever planned to come out during the 2017 publishing year, so wouldn’t it have been relying on being published under the new contract?

 

[Thrawn]

I actually know the answers to both those questions! No, it was contracted before the current contract lapsed, and yes, it actually was originally intended to come out during 2017. Part of the reason for those three months we got nothing.

 

[Christopher]

Being not as knowledgable about the contractual details of things as some others, I wonder how this works. Is it possible that Kirsten had a contract with Pocket to write X amount of books, but the fact that Pocket (at least during this gap) doesn’t have a license to publish Trek books prevent her from fulfilling said contract like she originally planned? It doesn’t seem like To Lose the Earth was ever planned to come out during the 2017 publishing year, so wouldn’t it have been relying on being published under the new contract?

Not the way it works. As long as a book was commissioned under the old license, Pocket has the right to publish it. It just can't commission new books until the license is renewed. After all, there's usually delay of a year or two betwen when a book is commissioned and when it hits the shelves, so the contract expiration only affects the former, not the latter. When Pocket acquired the Trek fiction license in 1979, Bantam was still able to go on publishing new novels until 1981, because it had commissioned them before it lost the license.

 

[ryan123450]

Ok thanks for clarifying that @Christopher.

 

[BOO-ing Hearts of Qo'nOs]

This will be my first experience reading a Voyager novel when it first comes out. Can't wait! Also, I really dig that cover.

 

[A Killer's Dream]

I forgot to mention Kirsten Beyer in the thread title before I posted it (which wasn't my intention). I don't know if it's necessary to get it fixed by a mod, though.

 

[trampledamage]

I forgot to mention Kirsten Beyer in the thread title before I posted it (which wasn't my intention). I don't know if it's necessary to get it fixed by a mod, though.

Might as well For the use of future readers searching for all of Kirsten's previous novels.

 

[BOO-ing Hearts of Qo'nOs]

Might as well For the use of future readers searching for all of Kirsten's previous novels.

This was indeed extremely handy for me when I first started reading them.

 

[A Killer's Dream]

Might as well For the use of future readers searching for all of Kirsten's previous novels.

Thank you for fixing it

 

[Alwaystrekkin]

Could this be, a real audio book for Architects of Infinity, well it's listed on the SimonSchuster website, and several retail outlets, though not Audible. com at this time. Well if this were so, would be swell IMHO. http://www.simonandschuster.com/boo...Kirsten-Beyer/Star-Trek-Voyager/9781508260974

 

[A Killer's Dream]

I'm already waiting for the paperback version. I'm going to buy three Trek novels this month. AoI is just one of them.

 

[JD]

Could this be, a real audio book for Architects of Infinity, well it's listed on the SimonSchuster website, and several retail outlets, though not Audible. com at this time. Well if this were so, would be swell IMHO. http://www.simonandschuster.com/boo...Kirsten-Beyer/Star-Trek-Voyager/9781508260974

All of the Trek books that have come out over the last few years have all had unabridged audio versions released.