Unreality-sf.net has added a new review for Dave Galanter‘s “Star Trek: The Original Series: Crisis of Consciousness”: In Crisis of Consciousness, Dave Galanter‘s latest contribution to the line of Original Series novels, Captain Kirk and the Enterprise are dispatched to ferry the ambassador of the Maabas — normally a rather xenophobic race — back to […]
Unreality-sf.net has added a new review for Bernd Perplies and Christian Humberg‘s “Star Trek: Prometheus: Fire With Fire”: I have a theory that taking something slowly reveals the quality of its pacing. For example, I am against binge-watching: Netflix TV shows might debut whole seasons on a single day, but I watch them one episode […]
Unreality-sf.net has added a new review for Bernd Perplies and Christian Humberg‘s “Star Trek: Prometheus: In the Heart of Chaos”: Big Finish’s Star Trek: Prometheus audiobooks draw to a close with In the Heart of Chaos, which ties up the story begun in the first two. Honestly, if you made it this far, you probably […]
Why tie-in novels of sci-fi/fantasy/otherwise fictional universes are valuable.
Vonda McIntyre wrote one of the first and most beloved Star Trek novels, The Entropy Effect. Here she tells the story of how she got the gig, and how the Star Trek book series started.
Treklit.com has added a new review for Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin‘s “Star Trek: Titan: Taking Wing”: When Star Trek Nemesis first hit theatres, I remember thinking that it would be very cool to be able to follow Riker to the Titan and learn about his adventures as the new captain of that vessel. […]
Out today is another Essays On Star Trek book, titled “The Kelvin Timeline of Star Trek: Essays on J.J. Abrams’ Final Frontier”, by Ace G. Pilkington and Matthew Wilhelm Kapell. Here’s the book’s synopsis: In an era of reboots, restarts and retreads, J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek trilogy–featuring new, prequel adventures of Kirk, Spock and the […]
The first original Star Trek tie-in novel.
Treklit.com has added a new review for Una McCormack‘s “Star Trek: Discovery: The Way To The Stars”: The Way to the Stars is an excellent bit of backstory for one of my favorite Discovery characters. The young Sylvia Tilly comes to life with a past that seems far too familiar to many people. Buy on […]
Since Star Trek: The Original Series — The Captain’s Oath has been out for a couple of weeks now, and since the folks on the podcast I linked to yesterday expressed the hope that my annotations for the novel would be up soon, I’ve now gone ahead and posted them. As usual, I don’t want […]
Trek.fm has added a new review for Christopher L. Bennett‘s “Star Trek: The Original Series: The Captain’s Oath”: In this episode of Literary Treks, hosts Bruce Gibson and Dan Gunther talk about Christopher L. Bennett’s new TOS novel The Captain’s Oath. As a special bonus, the author shared his thoughts with us about aspects of […]
Washingtonpost.com has added a new review for Kate Mulgrew‘s “How to Forget: A Daughter’s Memoir”: You might know Kate Mulgrew as Galina “Red” Reznikov on “Orange Is the New Black,” Capt. Kathryn Janeway on “Star Trek: Voyager,” or perhaps as Sam Malone’s girlfriend-who-wasn’t-Diane-or-Rebecca on “Cheers.” For all her talent as an actor, however, Mulgrew’s true […]
Treklit.com has added a new review for Christie Golden‘s “Star Trek: Voyager: Spirit Walk Book 2: Enemy of My Enemy”: If nothing else, Enemy of My Enemy makes up for the lack of plot in Old Wounds by leaps and bounds. My biggest complaint about that novel is that nothing really happens; in this novel, […]
Motionpicturescomics.com has added a new review for Dayton Ward‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: Available Light”: Simon & Schuster/ Pocket Books have been publishing Star Trek novels on a regular basis for as long as I can remember. (I believe their first one was The Entropy Effect by Vonda N. McIntyre from back in 1981, […]
Deep Space Spines has a review up for Peter David‘s “Star Trek: 57 The Rift“: This week, a jaunt to the Gamma Quadrant leads to love for Pike!Enterprise’s goofiest-looking crewman, but the premature closure of the gate that brought them there forces them to leave before she can engage his hyperdrive. Several years later, when […]
A California park will be renamed in LeVar Burton’s honor. Sacramento’s Richfield Park will be rededicated to the former Reading Rainbow host on June 11, reports The Sacramento Bee. Burton was born in Germany and moved to California when he was 3 years old. He attended Christian Brothers High School and went on to attend […]
Trek Lit Reviews has a review up for L.A. Graf‘s “Star Trek: New Earth: Book 3: Rough Trails“: I tried reading the New Earth miniseries years ago, but wound up not being able to get through it. Picking it up again this year to do these reviews, I couldn’t remember where in the series I had abandoned it […]
TrekMovie.com has a review up for Dayton Ward‘s “Star Trek: The Next Generation: Available Light“: This novel takes the reader through a solid first contact story showcasing Captain Picard’s skills as both a diplomat and a warrior, but also confronts our Captain with an ethical dilemma based on his actions in previous novels. While Starfleet itself […]
Tonight on Krypton Radio at 7pm Eastern, they’ll be airing Episode 61 of Hangin’ with Web Show, which will include an interview with me done at MegaCon in Orlando! The audio, and also video, of the interview will be available this weekend on various platforms as well!
My fourth convention in four weekends (and the last one for a bit) will be Indy PopCon in Indianapolis this coming Friday to Sunday, the 7th to the 9th of June. I will once again be there with Bard’s Tower, alongside Jody Lynn Nye and a bunch of other scribes. We’ll be at Booth 144,… […]
