Your favorite Trek Novel?

[Geoff Thorne]

Current top of the pops, BURNING DREAMS.

It's just Pike-tastic! It reminds me of the Clark novels I read as a kid and which hooked me on scifi.

 

[Ferd Burfel]

My current favorite is "The Art Of The Impossible" by Keith DeCandido. I love the political currents and the fact that the whole book was born out of a passing line from Bashir on DS9. To be honest, anything he rights is pure gold in my book. I loved "Articles of the Federation" and all the Gorkon/Klingon Empire books. He's the reason I got back into Trek books and I never hesitate to pick it up or pre-order it if it has his name anywhere near it. I even loved Dragon Precinct.

The whole DS9 relaunch has been a lot of fun for me too. It's my favorite series and the books have been terrific.

I've just now read a few Chris Bennett books and he's quickly entering DeCandido territory for me. "Orion's Hounds" is what I'm reading now, and the only thing that bothers me is the ship's crew. I don't blame him for that, it'd be tough to write. I just find it kinda forced. But at the same time I heap all the praise in the world on him for making it so TNG. That show was great because the interactions between characters and the subplots drove the show as much as the major plot. He's got those interactions down perfectly.

And I also love "The Big Game" from the original DS9 books. It was one of the first I read a LONG time ago and I still love it. I re-read it every year. It's got a lot of Quark, so I'm ok with that.

I'm also digging the Vanguard stuff a lot too. I thought David Mack launched that blazing. And I love the "Starfleet Survival Guide" too. Great fun to read.

 

[KRAD]

^ Thanks very very much, Ferd! You have made my morning...

 

[wahwahkits]

My all-time favourite has to be Crucible:McCoy. A close second is Before Dishonor with Ashes Of Eden in third place.

 

[flandry84]

Loved "Deep domain".Though,TBH,that has less to do with the book than where I was in my life when I read it.

 

[Ferd Burfel]

Well you sir, made my afternoon. Having my favorite Trek author acknowledge me is probably akin to said Trek author reading praise about himself.

I'll make you a deal, keep writing Trek books and I'll keep praising.

And to Flandry above, that's awesome. There are a ton of books (Trek and otherwise) that are special to me because of when I read them or what was going on around me. Trek helped me through some family deaths and a pretty traumatic move. So I can relate to exactly what you said.

 

[KRAD]

^ Well, then, we're even.

And I have no plans to stop writing Trek. Coming in 2009 are "Family Matters" in Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows in January; A Singular Destiny, the follow-up to Destiny, in February; "The Unhappy Ones," the Klingon wrath novella in Seven Deadly Sins in August; and the Klingon issue of IDW's Alien Spotlight II miniseries, which hasn't been scheduled yet, but should be out in the spring some time.

And I'm hoping to do more with IDW, and I've got stuff in development with Pocket that it's too soon to talk about. Yet.

 

[Ferd Burfel]

I need a Dragon Precinct / I.K.S. Gorkon crossover. Now.

 

[KRAD]

^ It has possibilities. For starters, Kurak and Danthres can have a contest to see who's the crankiest..........

 

[Ferd Burfel]

 

[Marie1]

The DS9 Relaunch (Duh)

But specific novel is Mission Gamma One. With Abyss following close behind...

EDIT: And Warpath!! Which despite my fears also fixed them... weird!
DM did such a good job on that one...

 

[trekkier]

gonna have to go with the vanguard series, entropy effect, a stitch in time, and to reign in hell

 

[Ferd Burfel]

"Boogeymen" will always be special to me because it was one of the first I read. Wasn't the best written, but I liked the story.

Sentimental favorite.

 

[Ktrek]

I have followed this thread since it started and can't give a reply. Every time I read someone's response I think..."ooh! I love that book too!" and thus I have found that I love way too may Star Trek books to provide an answer to this inquiry.

Kevin

 

[Shieldsdown]

Loved "Deep domain".Though,TBH,that has less to do with the book than where I was in my life when I read it.

Exact same feelings about that book, and for similar reasons. Not only happy memories of where I was in my life, but this book holds a special place for me as it was the first Star Trek book I read. It has a certain loose association with the movie TVH, also one of my favourites. (It was published a year after the movie).

 

[Starbreaker]

Mission Gamma #1 Twilight

Q-Squared is probably a close second.

 

[Marie1]

I have followed this thread since it started and can't give a reply. Every time I read someone's response I think..."ooh! I love that book too!" and thus I have found that I love way too may Star Trek books to provide an answer to this inquiry.

Kevin

That is a very good thing.

 

[Lynx]

My absolute favorite is:

"The Black Shore" by Greg Cox

This Star Trek Voyager book is so incredible exciting that I couldn't stop reading when I once had started to read. A very good and exciting story which starts as a recreation for the crew but turns out to be something completly different in the end.

All the main characters gets some piece of the action and the villains makes the Borg look like a bunch of well-behaved schoolkids.

I read this book for the first time in 1998. I've re-read it a couple of times since then and it still feels exciting.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

My current favorite is "The Art Of The Impossible" by Keith DeCandido.

I read that book basically in one sitting. Washington Square Park. I remember it because a bum tried to steal my shoes.

the whole book was born out of a passing line from Bashir on DS9.

Which was?

 

[BrotherBenny]

My current favorite is "The Art Of The Impossible" by Keith DeCandido.

I read that book basically in one sitting. Washington Square Park. I remember it because a bum tried to steal my shoes.

the whole book was born out of a passing line from Bashir on DS9.

Which was?

Way of the Warrior IIRC, Garak is beaten up by Drex, son of Martok, and when Bashir is patching him up, they talk about why he was beaten up and Bashir mentions the Betreka Nebula incident, which Garak says was a minor skirmish. Bashir responds by saying "that lasted eighteen years." And so KRAD writes a Klingon/Federation/Cardassian book that covers eighteen years of trek's Lost Era.