What Do You Plan to Read in 2019?

[Damian]

I also read it before I saw the movie, and I agree it is an excellent novelization. I generally like JM Dillard's work, and especially when she did novelizations that were sooo expanded from the source material. There's so much extra in TFF, and some nice added bits in TUC (although I mostly see complaints about her additions and changes there). The high point with her was a 400 page novelization for the movie length War of the Worlds television first episode. The last of her novelizations that I read was for the opening DS9 episode, at which point for some reason my interest was waning. I was disappointed by how her novelizations for TNG movies became shorter and shorter...and I compared them to that monster 400 pager of War of the Worlds and wish it had turned out differently.

From what I can recall, the novel for TFF draws on Hikaru Sulu's backstory from The Entropy Effect, Sybok zooms in on a bad incident from his childhood. I'm keeping it in mind for a reread, too.

Yeah, her book for TFF explained quite a bit...how the Enterprise (and later Klingon Bird of Prey) were able to get to the center of the galaxy so fast, and how Sybok designed a way for the shields to protect them. I remember she even explained what Gillian Taylor was up to since she was brought to the 23rd century, it provided some background on Sybok, and yeah, it showed us the pain of other crew members.

Her TNG-film novelizations were ok. But not quite as good as V and VI. One thing I liked about her novelization of First Contact is it gave us some more background on Cochrane, and partly explains why his behavior is somewhat erratic in the film....and she even gives us a glimpse into that event frequently mentioned but hardly covered, World War III.

 

[nickyboy]

I've started re-reading Destiny as I realised I started it in the New Year 10 years ago!

 

[Nyotarules]

I have lots of books on my kindle to read

Non Star Trek
Becoming (non fiction)
Slay in your lane (non fiction)
Boaz Brown series (romance book)

Star Trek The lost years
Traitor Winds
Recovery

Lost years era (Sulu stories)
Forged in fire
The sundered

Mirror universe
Dark Passions
Obsidian alliances
Rise like lions

DS9
Rising son
The never ending sacrifice (re read because its so brilliant!)

Probably 2019- 2020
Myriad universe series
Section 31 series - Cloak, Disavowed, Control
Q are cordially invited
Destiny series
Typhon pact series
The fall series
Cold equations series
DTI series
Kelvinverse comic ebook series

Might read Vanguard again just because!

After all this it would have taken me 5 years to read every Star Trek book on my kindle since I started in 2015!
(Spot the non Voyager fan lol)

 

[Nyotarules]

Yes, that's what I also heard about it.
The question for me is just, is it the right book to read with your children?
My son is 12, and we are reading Trek novels since 2 or 3 years. So my 8 year old daughter also wanted me to read a Star Trek book for her. We started with the Academy books (Kelvin-Timeline), but that's only 4 novels, so we continued "after the academy" with the movie-novels. She likes the TOS-crew, so we will read TOS-books, and McCoy is the first one from Cross Cult. So maybe we might first read some of the old TAS story. I have them all, but not read them yet, so they might be the better alternative.

The Crucible series seemed heavy to me, especially the McCoy section, might be a bit much for an 8 year old.

 

[JD]

Star Trek TOS
Traitor Winds
Recovery

Lost years saga (Sulu stories)
Forged in fire
The sundered

Sorry to be nitpicky, but I'm a Trekkie and I can't help it, Traitor Winds and Recover are actually the Lost Years stories, not Forged in Fire, and The Sundered. The Lost Years is between TAS and The Motion Piction, The Lost Era is between The Undiscovered Country and TNG.

 

[Nyotarules]

Sorry to be nitpicky, but I'm a Trekkie and I can't help it, Traitor Winds and Recover are actually the Lost Years stories, not Forged in Fire, and The Sundered. The Lost Years is between TAS and The Motion Piction, The Lost Era is between The Undiscovered Country and TNG

Thanks

 

[JD]

You're welcome.