What percent of Trek Lit is Crap?

[JoeZhang]

Its a hard one - Fast-food franchise fiction is always going to have its stinkers simply because of the way its done but I doubt its much higher than author initiated fiction.

 

[SPCTRE]

Four percent.

It's science.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Hmm. I just saw Chicago on Broadway; I thought it had a tendency to drag just a bit, in spots

Spoiler: (And I'm not alluding to . . . .)

(and by "drag," I'm not alluding to the character of Mary Sunshine.)

In the same vacation, I also saw An American in Paris, which did not drag (even though it was ultimately derived from a 15-20 minute tone poem, via the motion picture it inspired).

And HMFJTP was hardly "Gilbert and Sullivan in Space"; its musical numbers were set to tunes of a variety of genres (including some that no living person seems to be able to recognize).

 

[Idran]

Sure felt like it to me when I read it. I wasn't talking what songs were rewritten, I was talking the feel of the book.

 

[Therin of Andor]

And HMFJTP was hardly "Gilbert and Sullivan in Space"; its musical numbers were set to tunes of a variety of genres (including some that no living person seems to be able to recognize).

So far:
http://therinofandor.blogspot.com.au/p/how-much-for-just-planet-search-for.html

 

[ronny]

I think all of us on the Trek BBS must be a little jaded since we post in this forum and overall like the Trek books. Cuz if not, I suppose the BBS member would just silently drift away cuz Trek Books aren't his/her cup o' tea.

Got me to thinking since there are well over 300 books written (thinking of the numbered books and non-numbered books), I wonder how much people think that some of the books are just sh*t.

Only 300? I would've thought we were up in the 600s by now.

My Goodreads Star Trek shelf where I have all the books I own has 634 entries. If you subtract the the few technical manuals and things like that I own that brings it down to somewhere around 600 novels, story collections, etc.