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Voyager: Architects of Infinity by Kirsten Beyer delayed?
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Yes.
Back to discussing the book please. Anyone who wants to discuss the useability of apps, experience of paper books etc. is more than welcome to start a thread to that purpose.
Sorry for the delay in replying.
So this is the de facto Architects of Infinity pre-release discussion thread, eh?
It's surreal that Architects of Infinity is the only mass-market paperback we currently know of on the horizon.
It's surreal that Architects of Infinity is the only mass-market paperback we currently know of on the horizon.
There is also To Lose the Earth but that doesn’t have a definite publication date yet.
I suspect with the amount of time that quality writing requires, To Lose the Earth won't come out this year as loosely scheduled.
Amazon UK currently saying 5th April
Such a completely random date. Not sure I’ll rememeber it.
The UK date is usually slightly later.
I’m assuming that is due to shipping copies from the US
I’m assuming that is due to shipping copies from the US
Not lost, but Voyager is leading an expedition back to the Delta Quadrant to follow up on the discoveries they made initially (since they've all got slipstream drives, it's practical to go back and forth from the Federation). Since their mission has taken them away from the main body of the Federation, it's sort of implicit that they won't be involved in the crossovers, and Beyer is running a very strongly serialized story, so Voyager hasn't done any of the time-skips the Alpha Quadrant novels have (which is the other reason they're not involved in crossovers, the same way DS9 fell by the wayside as TNG became the flagship series of the novelverse a couple in-story years after where the DS9 books were, so DS9 was hardly involved in "Destiny," for instance).
But on a smaller scale. STO was basically "everone come to the Delta Quadrant" (probably because of the the first "M" of MMORPG
) while the Voyager relaunch started out with maybe six ships and regularly killed off half of them. Well, once. But it was epic. Also, while I don't recall the particulars from the STO delta exploration initiative, I don't think they had a particular mission other than "we can go to the DQ there now. Let's go!". Voyager's mission is to check if the Borg are actually gone as well as rekindle the Federation's relations with the species Voyager pissed off during its initial tenure. If the series gets continued I'd love to return to the Vidiians. They were established as a somewhat civilized culture that got ravaged by a terrible disease, so I'd love to see how they evolved, now that the Think Tank cured them.Oh, right, I totally forgot the alliance. It's been some time since I've regularly played, but I just started a new TOS Starfleet character, so in like three months I'll be up to date
It doesn’t take that long. There’s only a few missions.Oh, right, I totally forgot the alliance. It's been some time since I've regularly played, but I just started a new TOS Starfleet character, so in like three months I'll be up to date
Yeah, but I've got little time and I'm a really, really mediocre gamer.
STO also makes everything in the DQ ridiculously close together for game convenience. New Talax comes into conflict with the Vidiians, for instance. Argh.
Not QUITE that bad, though - aside from seasons one and two, Voyager seemed to “reset” its villains every season, making something of a line with every antagonistic species, marking their space. Especially once Voyager started its various jumps forward. So the New Talax colony (established in season seven) getting into conflict with the Vidiians (from seasons one and two) is definitely... off.
